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Gates: Obama Keeping bin Laden Pictures Secret Because of "Photoshop" Fear
Pundit Press ^
| 5/12/11
| Aurelius
Posted on 05/12/2011 12:25:57 PM PDT by rightistight
Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated today that one of the main reasons why President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden is because he fears that the pictures will be photoshopped and used against the United States.
Mr. Gates stated that the President believes that, should the photos be released, they will quickly be "misused" in order to drive anti-American sentiment in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Gates stated:
"One of the things that I think concerns Secretary [of State Hillary] Clinton and I is the risk not only of the pictures themselves inflaming people who were bin Laden's adherents and radical extremists, but we were also worried about the potential for manipulation of those photos and doing things with those photos that would be pretty outrageous in terms of provoking a reaction that might in fact put our troops at greater risk in both Iraq and Afghanistan..."
Gates added:
"I have gotten from friends all over the country copies of the picture that was this iconic picture taken in the Situation Room while we were watching the operation. And they have been photoshopped in every way you can imagine, including putting you know, coming after the royal wedding, one of these had all of us in one of these big, wide-brimmed hats from the wedding. Another had various football players seated at the table that had been photoshopped in."
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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: binladen; deathphoto; gates; obama
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To: ErnBatavia
LOL
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:11:09 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Like I’ve said elsewhere....Obama got Osama.....we got 72 versions.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:11:52 PM PDT
by
Lucky9teen
(Jobs? Nope! Economy? Nope! Disarm the U.S? Yep! Impeach the treasonous Marxist Muslim usurper bast)
To: rightistight
Gates proving his kneepads are fully operational.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:14:50 PM PDT
by
Carley
(We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
To: rightistight
And his grammar sucks too.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:15:34 PM PDT
by
Carley
(We will not tire. We will not falter. We will not fail. W, 9/20/01)
To: cripplecreek
I’ve been waiting for someone to photoshop that. Thanks.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:19:25 PM PDT
by
CommieCutter
(Promote Liberal Extinction: Support gay marriage and abortion!)
To: CommieCutter
Hell I did that on election night.
I’m an optimist.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:20:53 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: Lucky9teen
Like I’ve said elsewhere....Obama got Osama.....we got 72 versions. Or Ubama got Usama.
27
posted on
05/12/2011 1:22:40 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islamophobia: The fear of offending Muslims because they are prone to violence.)
To: rightistight
Suddenly, he doesn’t sound so ‘gutsy’ anymore... eh?
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:25:35 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: Hardraade
Maybe someone could photoshop an American into the Oval Office??
Post of the day!!!
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:28:05 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: rightistight
President Barack Obama has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden is because he fears..... There's the bottom line right there.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:29:28 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(The stench of dependency is a sickening smell. Strive to become an asset, not a liability.)
To: rightistight
Barry0 should be afraid of Photoshop - look at all the versions of his birth certificate :)
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:31:16 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
To: rightistight
Please.....use it against us????
They took down the twin towers for no friggin' reason.
To: rightistight
Or he isn’t dead, Jim!
No body, no photos makes me wonder if he is stuffed in an undisclosed CIA rendition prison being heavily interrogated.
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:39:29 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
No red shirt for you, Bin Laden!
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posted on
05/12/2011 1:39:58 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Lucky9teen; waterhill; ixtl
LOL Lucky9teen,
That is the best one yet!!!!!
(((ping))) to 21.
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posted on
05/12/2011 4:41:42 PM PDT
by
Envisioning
( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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