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Old 05-04-2011, 10:57 AM   #77 (permalink)
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This probably shouldn't come as any surprise:
White House Won't Release Bin Laden Death Pic | New York Daily News

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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
i have thought the use of sports to build consent for this travesty to be utterly nauseating. and even worse than the sportscasters who broke the infotainment were the officially sanctioned moments of maudlin jingo shit that preceded sporty events the next night. made me wonder if there was some kind of co-ordination, since it did not appear one could escape the self-congratulatory horseshit. blech.
If terrorism isn't met with jingoism in equal measure, it would make it appear terrorism is winning. We wouldn't want to make it appear that terrorism is winning. It's bad enough that it actually is.

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but that's not a sickening as the attempt from former bush people to use this to justify torture.
Weren't we just talking about that justice, equality, and rule of law thing somewhere?

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After trawling through this I cannot help but notice No one has posted that if YOU were the Soldier and after months of DANGEROUS covert operations..That if you finnaly..(And i say finally because they didn't catch a taxi there and were escorted in by a bell boy) You got into a room with numerous people,and lets be fair were never more that 6" away from a firearm ... I know I would have just scattered that room!!! Who the hell wants to be remebered as they guy who NEARLY killed OSL but ...ooo bad show old boy better luck .....NEVER!!!!
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