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PghBaldy wrote:

Yes, which just confirms what I think- why didn’t Obama wait a few days for the DNA tests, then have someone (preferably not him) announce it? It is amateur hour in DC.

First, Sunday at 10:30pm EST was deliberate. It was to preempt the final minutes of Trump's program "Celebrity Apprentice" on NBC. They accomplished this with NBC interrupting the program at 10:45 to announce rumors of OBL's death. Trump really scares Obama or at least some of the handlers and teleprompter writers.

kabar wrote:

Please. The attack took place yesterday. If you doubt that then you won't believe anything else. His identity was verified no doubt not just from forensic evidence, but also from other physical evidence including documents, the people around him, etc.

Kabar, you might have missed some of the stories from the first half of the 10pm hour last night. RummyChick saw them before Minitrue scrubbed them from the Internet.

The early stories (I saw them on AP and on Reuters) quoted "anonymous sources" at the White House and the Pentagon, saying that Osama was killed a week ago, and that DNA tests results already in confirmed that the body was Osama. They also said the body was still in US custody a week later.

Those news stories mysteriously disappeared after Pres__ent Obama spun his yarn about how he personally arranged the whole thing to happen yesterday around 3:30pm EST. The story changed greatly.

Dumping the body at sea might have avoided a shrine to Osama (most likely there will still be a shrine to Osama with some kind of relic to remember him). But dumping the body at see does seem like a particularly stupid thing to do less than 24 hours after the event. The world would be more likely to believe the event with better proof, and keeping the body would have provided that proof.

If they did dump him at sea, I hope they wrapped him in bacon, and dropped him into a school of sharks.

And may all of Osama's 72 virgins look like Helen Thomas.