Bin Laden is dead.

More importantly: that show is still on?

It means about as much to my everyday life as Bin Laden's death.  Probably more, actually.

Now we now how this was possible!!!

Neither, just the worst costume party ever held

Well they were in drag in the other photo and nobody could recognize them so someone used photoshop to make them more recognizable.

Flash / Biden's rumpled shirt is pretty classy.

Hack troll attack is back, jack

I love how the media's just milking this motherf**ker. Yes, distract away you tools

Bread and circuses, man.

The BBC documentary program Panorama covered the OBL assassination last night.

The aim of the program appeared to be to demonise Pakistan, and their ISI as much as possible, for either being incompetent, or for being complicit in hiding OBL. A number of US intelligence 'experts' were wheeled out to make the case. The US has held a presence in Pakistan for some years now; killing militants and several hundred civilians with predator drones. Pakistan is expecting some backlash from the killing of OBL.

People forget that despite Pakistan being an 'ally ' in the "war on Terror" it is also a country divided, and many people are not on the same page as the US and the UK. Many support Al Queada in principle, and regard the US as an occupying force in their country. There are those within the ISI and the Pakistani government, who are intent on bringing the administration down. Pakistan is a dangerously unstable, nuclear armed nation, and the US is - by and large - not welcome there.

This is a curiously expedient time, politcally, for the Obama admininstration to score this bullseye. With low approval ratings, a failing economy, rising unemployment, food and fuel prices and another war front opened up in Libya, Obama needed this victory. Whether or not the feel good factor can be sustained until he runs for his second term remains to be seen. Has he played the OBL card too soon? Of course we all obediently assume that the story happened as we have been told. To consider any other possibility is both unpatriotic and and profoundly paranoid.

Edited by Blacksword - May 10 2011 at 05:15

npjnpj wrote: I don't believe he's dead at all. A switch, and the real OBL is in custody being milked for all information waterboardong can buy. After that he'll be quietly dispatched with extreme prejudice. No other choice, after all the public can't be allowed to learn what he might disclose about the background to 9/11.

Some believe he died through ill health back in 2002. Whatever..

The fact is, we will never know the absolute truth. I struggle generally to believe the word of people who I know build careers through lying and slippery information management.