Gates, Clinton Advising President to Not Release OBL Photograph

ABC News ^ | 05/04/2011 | Jake Tapper

[FES0844]

Post it along with the photos of Danny Pearl & all those they beheaded & gleefully displayed for all the world to see. Then get the clusters ready for Mecca & Medina.

[muawiyah]

You're just trying to protect them. The trick with AlQaida is that the more of them we kill the fewer of them there are.

The Democrats, and some Conservatives, had this theory that killing them and turning them into martyrs simply fired up recruiting.

The cold, hard facts are that you eventually run out of true believers when you make a concerted effort at killing them. Even the German Army surrendered at the field unit level ~ having run out of anybody who cared.

It's the same with AlQaida and its affiliates ~ they are vulnerable TO DEATH!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Abu Ghrab photos. Gitmo photos. Outing CIA operatives photos.

Quite a difference with a socialist in the White House.

[Cliff Dweller]

The time to post it was within 48 hours... too late now.

Maybe BHO is waiting until we are closer to the election to re-vitalize any kind of bump to show how tough he is on Terror, just don’t want people to see it....

I guess there is no problem seeing US Servicemen dragged in the dust “a-la-Somalia” or US Contractors burned and hung from bridges “a=la-Iraq”, but it is too disturbing to show a shot up terrorist to the world.

It should have and still should be posted to show “This is what happens when you challenge America!”

[patriotspride]

” from your article the president was...working as an absentee president

That’s the thing that never smelled right about this whole ordeal: issuing a “kill order” is the total antithesis of Obama’s sissified personality.

Somebody please post the picture of Obama and M watching the martial arts demonstration on the White House lawn

... then ask yourselves: can this man kill anything? “

Thanks to our military for doing the right thing.

Saw an article where Panetta claims that Obama didn’t watch
the actual action.

Makes me believe the photo of Hill, Barry, Biden et al was a put together after the fact, and explains the odd seating, and shocked looks.

Bottom line he’s gone, and hats off to the real heros of our SEAL team who put their lives on the line for all of us.

[Adder]

Leave it to el Zee-rho and his insane clown posse to take a great victory and turn it into a leftist, angst handwringing ceremony....

SHOW ME THE DEAD SOB!

[BuffaloJack]

If Obama is worried that no good can come from releasing the photo, then wait a week and see the stories people will invent in the face of not releasing a photo.
Obama is completely blowing this whole thing.
Another day and even if he does release it, everyone will proclaim that it was photoshopped.

[rollo tomasi]

I wish some media stooge would ask these Godless creatures;

"What gruesome picture did then President Bill Clinton show, of a dead infamous terrorist, that prompted the planning of a violent response on September 11, 2001. Please have a nice trip as you are slipping on your regurgitation, which you probably mistook the vomit as a logical answer by the way."

[River_Wrangler]

SSSUH!! If we don’t release the picture his followers will never know he is missing./S

[WayneS]

They should go ahead and release all the photos they have. Sooner or later the ‘wikileaks’ guy will get his hands on them and if HE ends up being the first to make them public them The Obama will appear even more foolish and less in control.

[redk]

This is keeping the economy and gas out of the headlines but they cannot play this game forever.

[rollo tomasi]

By the way trolls/lurkers/DUmmies, 911 was planned around 1996.

[AmericanInTokyo]

In the age of Wikileaks, and "every man has his price" and multi million dollar book deals, do they honestly think they can keep this thing buttoned up for more than a month or so??

It's gonna leak. Simple as that.

[Tigerized]

Can’t this guy get anything right?

The photo should’ve been released immediately after the raid. And if there was blowback from Osama’s minions, so be it. They can follow their boss to paradise, too.

Hillary’s got more testicular fortitude than her boss. And I’m sure she’s just waiting in the weeds, licking her chops and calculating her next move...

[TomGuy]

As a guest commentator on Fox&Friends said this morning, the photo(s) WILL get out.

Thus, the Obama Admin should release it/them so that they will be able to control the narrative. Otherwise, some source similar to Wikileaks will eventually obtain and release the photo(s) and create a crisis such as the recently released ambassadorial communications.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes, but of course, you are not a chickenshit, like Obama is.

[central_va]

We essentially live in a communist country. Just check the communist manifesto. There never was an invading, conquering army that forced that on us. We Yankees chose it.

Corrected.

[SERKIT]

This is now a huge problem in the context of Libya. Barry (along with Graham and McCain) want to arm, support, and protect the so-called Libyan rebels.

According to the Christian Science Monitor and other sources, the rebels are being supplemented by foreign al-Qaeda coming from American-unfriendly regions who are becoming fighters against Kadafi.

If Barry releases the photo of the dead UBL, he may be "dissing" the very people he (and Graham and McCain) wants to help, arm, and support in the fight against Kadafi.

Why in the hell isn't this a Constitutional crisis of Biblical proportions?

[AmericanInTokyo]

George Bush would not vascillate like this. Pathetic. Truly pathetic. They are pissing on their own victory, less than 48 hours out.

[hal ogen]

The image of hillary clintoon licking anything is revolting. Please.