I think everybody believes that the SEALs went and either grabbed or offed someone. It's the rest of the details that are sketchy. What lacks is concrete evidence that Osama Bin Laden specifically was acutally killed.
Other options include: They got the wrong guy because Panetta/Obama fed them wrong info. They got the wrong guy because it was a look alike. They captured OBL to question him elsewhere and not tell anyone.
None of these options insult the military or their actions. They do not constitute "conspiracy theories" out of line with anything that is unusual during wartime.
Throwing this "conspiracy nut" aspersion around so easily is just as insulting as any other personal attack. It ought to stop because it is untrue in many, many cases.
You just don't engage your brain long enough to think about the possibilities. You leap instantly to a conclusion so that you can post a snarky comment. That is poor form indeed.
We spent 5 year and sent 40 seals to get him, and if what we got was someone else, then that is what would be reported. You just haven’t engaged your brain long enough to think through that other possibilities are counterfactual.
Like the guy next door who tweeted the event and the fact that if it is not Bin Laden 40 Seals in an elite professional team have to be in on the joke. Hardly.
“They captured OBL to question him elsewhere and not tell anyone.”
yeah, and monkeys fly out of my butt... actually absurd to make a very public, presidential-speech level ‘we killed him’ the cover story. if they did do that, they would just keep the whole thing secret and the public story would not be OBL dead, but “hey we tried to find him but missed”. In this era of wikileaks, there are no real big secrets that stay secret long. It’s simply a bunch of absurd hypotheticals. And for what purpose? To simply doubt that our DoD and CIA actually did something right?!? Did you doubt for a second the news about getting Saddam?
“Throwing this “conspiracy nut” aspersion around so easily is just as insulting as any other personal attack.”
Nutty is as nutty does. It’s not me doing it, its the media using FR posters as foils for there “Hey, there’s nuts out there who dont belive it” meme ... get this an FR poster gets quoted right after a Taliban spokesman, with the same whine ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/03/osama-bin-laden-body-picture
This is not snark. This is FR that is getting itself discredited because posters are saying things that are discreditable.