Posted on 05/03/2011 4:46:53 AM PDT by Huck
Huck, for what it’s worth, I agree with you . . . it was weird around here yesterday. Hope you stick around, though.
Huck I might have said a few things that weren’t patriotic when this happened. Considering all that you’ve said I can understand your disappointment. I was angry that I can’t trust this particular president in anything he says. The same president that did a flyover in NY terrifying the citizens there when he first was in office and now that our military has gotten him, he has politicized this thing. The final insult in disposing the body so quickly giving bin Laden a respectful burial or so we’re told.
The only solace is to know that the era of bin Laden is over.
Osama had a gun then he didn’t. Osama’s wife was used as a shield, the she wasn’t... what a crock.
They could have put Osama’s body on a victory tour, displaying it in every city in America, and the conspiracy nuts would claim it was faked. Truthers long ago proved that no fact can stop a good conspiracy theory...
I will not give Obama one ounce of credit till he steps forward and apologizes for slandering our Commander In Chief President Bush.
To give Obama credit now only validates his previous attempts to lose the war in order to make President Bush look bad and I will forever refuse to do it.
I bet he didn't even offer to share the podium with President Bush prior to his press conference.
You have a good point. I was brought back to that hellish day too, and I understood the big picture. Even though I was across the country, it was still the worst day I’ve experienced.
Do not leave. Plenty of people “got it” yesterday, but others were still focused on the smaller picture: that our President is dishonest and possibly a usurper, and their minds couldn’t get to the big picture in 24 hours. Forgive them. Whether they are young, or obsessed. The bright, wise, and witty are still here.
As in all free exchange, you will get all kinds. Like mindeds abound as well. Forgive the silly and the small minded.
“When they released the birth certificate I was able to download it immediately and prove it was a forgery. Then I knew for sure.”
Insane.
The first story was the wife was used as a human shield and was dead, which reads nice. I mean, in the end Bin Laden is this self serving coward. Sure, I’ll admit I wanted to believe that and who wouldn’t! With that, late Sunday night, newsprint had had three hours to go to print with “GOT HIM”.
But, then people start asking questions about the warp speed DNA test and super sonic burial trip. Subsequently, we’re told no the wife is alive and identified him...maybe has some injury. Well, that’s different then the first story, but supports the narrative certainly. And, by the way, we’ll surely never see her.
The White House is the sole source of information. It does seem very odd how the story is morphing and still now no proof.
Anti-semites often hide behind the Old “I like jews...but hate Israel” crap...so you know what you are getting into when you go there...
And quite frankly...the only personal opinion I care about concerning behaviour on FR is Jim Robinson....
“Finger wagging” is NOT a time honored traditition on free republic.
The original post reeks of moral superiority and lecturing.
I have a one word reply....
Screw.
Yes releasing the pictures would be a good thing.
Really? You didn't see all the threads and all the posts congratulating The Special Forces and CIA and all our fighting men and women in uniform?
Huh. I guess it's true. You see what you want to see.
I can see how 911 may have scarred you for life, but we are not the enemy, my fine, feathered FRiend.
My suggestion: Spend a few hours at DU and then come back here and tell us again how we are becoming like them.
I accept your apology beforehand.
And as we speak the White House is retracting the story they told just yesterday about what went down just Sunday.
And our fellow FReepers complain that we are skeptical. Sheesh.
Just Smile, darn ya, Smile!
That's a responsible, clinical response that is clearly level-headed and mature.
And I do think that's a shame.
But there was too much conflicting information and too much fuzzy "evidence." The government has lied to us so many times before that my BS Detector was engaging. I'm not a conspiracy theorist and I'm not saying id didn't happen the way the government says it went down, but I also have the instinct to "Trust, yet verify."
(Not to mention, our leation here in Iraq was somewhat tempered by our increased vigilance in expectation of retaliatory attacks.)
The Federal Government lied, all the time, about EVERYTHING! They lied about taxes, drugs, the Environment, cigarettes, Viet Nam, Cuba, Russia, Kennedy, it's membership, the Law, guns... AND, the Media let them get away with it, or actively helped them. And, we DIDN'T KNOW! Thanks to the Net, the Truth, now, is Out There.
When did the Feds, and the lying, Chicago, Muslim thug, suddenly turn honest? Day before yesterday? May 1st, 2011? Shazam! Total Truth, all the time? Sorry, I didn't get the Memo.
Democrats might believe in social miracles. Evangelists, with Faith, in Miraculous Revelations. Fans of the Chicago Cubs, next year in the Series.
The rest of us, not so much.
Wow, Huck. That’s one of the best things I’ve read on FR in quite a while. Might be the best ever.
Thank you for sharing it with us. Well done.
Well some of us enjoy this site so perhaps you should pick up your crying towel at the exit.
I was in lower Manhattan on 9-11. I was just across the street from the WTC when the first plane hit. I still remember the beautiful clear blue sky that day. I remember walking in between the towers just a minute or so before 8:46am, on my normal route to work. I remember my co-workers screaming in panic when they watched from an office window as the second plane hit the south tower. I remember women crying and screaming hysterically. I remember not being able to contact my wife to tell her I was OK. I remember people jumping to their deaths. I remember seeing the north tower go down with my own eyes, hearing it with my own ears. I remember fleeing Manhattan. I remember it was a Tuesday.Everyone else watched it on TV.
Osama set out to destroy our economy. Obama is actually doing it.
They are spinning “history” by trial balloon.
If a BC can be forged, so can pictures. He’s dead.
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