So . . . let's assume they brought him back alive. Or maybe just brought his cold, rotting body here

[Stinky The Clown]

Then what?

If he were brought back alive, would we just have pictures similar to this to see over and over for the next decade?



Would seeing such a picture over and over again convince the doubters we had him? Really? At the end of the decade, we'd still have only an image on a screen or a sheet of paper, really. And the doubters would still doubt.

The only thing that would convince them would be a receiving line, where we the people could, if we chose, file past him and . . . . what? . . . shake his hand? Look in his eyes? Sit on his lap like some sick santa visit? We all know that ain't gonna happen.

So let's say we bring his body back. Same deal, really. Will they have some national mourning line. Will we get to file past the open casket and get to peer into his brain through his (former) eyeball? Will we get to pick off chunks and send them to our favorite DNA labs? Really . . . . what?

No matter what, all people would get is images.

And images can be doctored.

How many *still* think the Moon Walk was filmed just outside Vegas? Lots of pictures of that. Even physical evidence at the Smithsonian. How many think Elvis is alive, if a bit wrinkled, weathered, overweight, and unshaven, but well, on a small farm just down the road from Ted Kaczynski's place? We have pictures of the funeral. People even got to file past the actual body in the actual side yard of the actual Graceland and see his actual family actually mourning.

So really? What good would more than the telling of the story of last Sunday's events do?

It happened. We should all just settle down and take that fact to the bank.

[coalition_unwilling]

1. Here's a suggestion for you: let's just eliminate any quaint and

obsolete notions we might have had about 'due process of law,' 'right to a fair trial,' 'right to counsel,' and so on and proceed directly to executions of all accused of capital crimes. No trials are needed; the mere conviction in the court of public opinion will suffice henceforth. (Just hope you aren't accused of a capital crime.)

:sarcasm:

Welcome to my Ignore list.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. And its a Hiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhhh Fllllyyyyyyyyy Baaaalllllllll to Left. Fading foul. . . .

Can you miss a point by a bigger margin?

[blondeatlast]

7. Copy and paste is such a useful tool for messagae boards, yes? nt

[gratuitous]

12. But that's so messy!

Better we just flush it away. "Everybody" agrees on the basic facts, whether they're true or not, and all that "evidence" and "testimony" is just too confusing, and makes people's heads hurt! This way, we get to wave a bunch of flags, pile into the car, honk the horn and hoot and holler out the windows. And what's more fun?

Besides, it's not like anyone, you know, swore an oath or something to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. We're following the highest law here, that of the High Church of Redemptive Violence, our national religion.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Call them Doubting Thomases.

Unless they can feel the bullet wound in OBL's head, they will not believe.

[sufrommich]

4. I'm starting to believe conspiracy theorists are hard wired

that way.

[blondeatlast]

8. Yup--same usernames over and over and over... nt

[pintobean]

5. "take that fact to the bank"

Haven't you heard? The banks are fucking us.

[MacNfries]

6. If they had brought OBL back alive ...

That would give 100 lawyers another person to defend with an insanity plea ... cost to taxpayers $10-20 million

That would give taxpayers one more person to support in a Federal government prison ... cost to taxpayers $1.9 million

It would endangered the lives of every American living abroad ... cost to taxpayers $ 10-50 million + countless lives, public beheadings, loss of property

Need I go on?

I think they did EXACTLY the best thing to cause the least/further damage to Americans

I liked the idea of making the pics of OBL available for viewing (only) to families of 9-11 and to any federal/state politicians

The General Public doesn't need to see them.

[kentuck]

9. On top of that..

The photo of KSM looks nothing like him in his business suit.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Doesn't he now have a long beard?

I think they released a recent picture of him from our Cuban Gulag, didn't they?

[EFerrari]

11. But Stinky, since when do we arrange our decisions by the most delusional among us?

That is our highest priority?

The really difficult part of this has never been whether to fuck bin Laden. It's been how to avoid fucking ourselves in the process.