Questions About the Murder of Osama Bin Laden

[Stephen]

- The most powerful military in the world with the most extensive intelligence services took ten years to find and kill one crippled old man. What took so long?

- If bin Laden is the personification of evil, like we have been led to believe for the last ten years, then why did the U.S. government bother to handle his body in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition?

- The government is reporting that it buried the body of bin Laden at sea. Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this for years to come - and rightly so. How could the government do something so stupid as dispose of bin Laden’s body so quickly? Are we just supposed to have faith in the government when it says it had the body and positively identified it by a DNA test?

- Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. troops, turned over to Iraqis, tried, sentenced to death, and hung. Why was bin Laden killed and Hussein not killed? Why was the crippled, lame OBL not captured and water-boarded in a US torture chamber? If OBL was actually killed last week, just think of the incredible amount of intelligence that was lost with this one stupid blunder. It is mind boggling. OBL could have identified terrorists worldwide. The intel he had would have been incalculable and the greatest military intelligence coup in history. We captured Saddam. Why kill Osama?

- Is the timely nature of the release of Obama's birth certificate, the highly trumpeted murder of OBL, and Obama's dismal showing in the early election cycle mere coincidence?

- Was the death of one man worth 5,000 American lives? Even if he was solely responsible for 9/11, does this not put us in a negative loss of 2,000 US lives? If saving American lives is the goal, the math doesn't work.

- How many more innocents have died because of the U.S. war on terror than died because of Osama bin Laden? If saving innocent lives is the goal, the math doesn't work.

- With bin Laden dead, does this mean that the Patriot Act can be repealed, the TSA disbanded, and all our freedoms restored that have been taken away since 9/11? You know, the freedoms our troops have supposedly been fighting for?

- George Bush prematurely announced "Mission Accomplished." If there was ever a time to declare victory in the war on terror and bring all the troops home it is now. Will Obama do it?

[Stephen]

THE LEGITIMACY OF THE ENTIRE "WAR ON TERROR" IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED.

Saddam is dead. Iraq had no WMD's. We bombed them back to the stone age, killed hundreds of thousands of their civilians, and replaced their entire government.

Osama is dead (if he didn't die 10 years before). The Taliban is in shambles. Afghanistan's cities look like the surface of the moon after a decade of invasion, war and occupation.

There are no more excuses.

Will they now repeal the Patriot Act, disband the TSA and roll back the 2006 Military Commissions Act now that the "master of all evil terrorism" is dead? With no WMD's in Iraq and Saddam dead, will the troops return home? Will the endless surveillance of US citizens end?

We've waited for 10 years to learn what this war was really about.

Now we're about to find out.

[Stephen]

If OBL actually died this week (not 10 years ago), it leaves us with a very interesting scenario.

First, the murder resembles a mob hit. Invade the victim's home unsuspected and kill an unarmed, unresisting man at point blank range with one bullet to the chest, then one coup de grace bullet through the head while his family watches. Somewhere in the depths of hell, Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and Sam Giancana are smiling in approval.

Secondly, consider all the things that a dead Osama Bin Laden can't do:

* He can't talk.
* The "mastermind of evil" can't reveal any of the countless hundreds of terrorist identities, methods and routines, terror plots, training camps and thousands of other details that existed only in his mind. Oops.
* He can't tell us who he thinks was really responsible for 9/11.
* He can't talk about the CIA, with whom he was intimately familiar.
* He can't talk about the US government's influence on the House of Saud, of which he was a member.
* He can't explain how his house became a "compound." (Any home or church invaded by government agents automatically becomes a "compound").
* He can't bear witness to the other execution-style murders that took place in his "compound..." uh, er... house... this week.
* He's no longer able to speak of his grievances against the US (for those who forgot, his three reasons never changed: 1) U.S. troops in Muslim lands; 2) U.S. puppet leaders running those countries; and 3) U.S. support for Israel, which he believed to be oppressing Palestinians.)

There's a lot of really important things that a live Osama Bin Laden can do, but a dead Osama can't.

Hmmm.

[Stephen]

White House liar Jay Carney now admits that there was no firefight, and blames all the errors in the previous version of OBL's death on the "fog of war."

Question #1: If there was no firefight, where did the "fog of war" come from?

White House liar Jay Carney said that the president and his staff "watched tensely" in real time as the murders occurred via video cameras on Navy Seal helmets.

Question #2: If the president watched the murders on live video, why did he later say there was a "firefight?"

The White House now insists that there was no video of the event and the previous claims of live video are erroneous.

Question #3: How is it that the White House didn't know if it was watching live video or not?

Question #4: What, exactly, is on that video that the White House no longer wants us to see? And if there was no video, why did they lie and say there was?

The White House now admits that OBL was unarmed when he was murdered.

Question #5: Why did we kill the most valuable intelligence asset on planet Earth, when - as a crippled old man on dialysis - he stood unarmed in front of our courageous, indomitable special forces troops?

Question #6: Are our highly trained special forces troops really THAT idiotic? Just how stupid would a Navy Seal have to be to kill Osama without specific orders from above?

Question #7: Sooo... who gave that order?

Question #8: And why?