Politics

Bachmann: I’ve Seen the OBL Death Photos & I‘m Convinced ’We Got Our Man’

Although the public has not been allowed to see the bin Laden death photos, some members of Congress have. One such member is Michele Bachmann (R-MN). And after seeing them today, she said she’s convinced bin Laden is dead.

The confirmation from Bachmann came in the form of a tweet, in which she explained she visited CIA headquarters and saw the photos. However, as you’ll see below, despite vouching for bin Laden’s death, she does call for the release of the DNA testing that helped cement his identity:

Bachmann: Ive Seen the OBL Death Photos & Im Convinced We Got Our Man

Comments (117)

  • OlefromMN
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:00pm

    It is very intersting that the media has chosen to run with Bachmann viewing the photos. Many others viewed or deKlined (John Kline MN2 chose not to view. ) The AP wants to take Michele out of the race before she has a chance. Call it just another preemptive strike. The media loves to highlight her and allow all the negativity to do their dirty work.

    She viewed the photos and Tweeted. That’s it. Not a big news story in my eyes. Hannity was much more graphic in his description and questioning of guests on his radio show today.

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  • Sol Idarity
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:58pm

    You conservatives waste so much precious energy on such petty conspiracy issues, it is a wonder how anyone can expect you to govern ANYTHING!!

    Whether it is President Obama’s birth certificate, his religion or his color. Whether it Osama is dead or alive. You want to take the country back….to WHERE????????

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    • thinkinghuman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:43pm

      Its not “petty” anymore. Its way past petty. Its every turn, every way you look. Nothing seems true or real anymore. All seems like a BIG ACT.

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:38pm

    Real or fake the death of Bin Ladin will not win the 2012 election for Obama. America has seen enough of this administration. It was very clear where the country stood last November. Do not pay attention to recent polls and any polls you see from here on out. Obama is toast. Everything he does from here on out will be for re election. Like the speech he gave in Elpaso yesterday, which side of the Rio Grande was he standing on?????????

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  • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:32pm

    Right.

    OK.

    So you people trust that Bachman, somehow, has the medical forensic training to identify dead terrorists with blown-out skulls, but she couldn’t quite interpret a clean/pristine – official – certificate of Live Birth straight from the state that issued it, verified as accurate from that same state. She had to push that issue as it was just too difficult to trust THAT picture.

    Uh-Huh.

    Pass the bong please.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:57pm

      You have no idea what it’s costing me, in my head, to respond directly to you because of my view of you. But, here it goes–no attack coming at you, nothing personal at this moment..

      I’m sick of politicians assuming measured postures. Right or Left–they all do it. It’s clear my hate of liberals is practically legendary even in H*ll. But that’s beside the point.

      Bachmann has no better ideas than Olbermann. To them, realistically, it’s all about the status quo, using minutiae as some kind of garment of lustre. And, at other times, a cudgel. I don’t know about you, LACT, but I’m really tired of it. I think, too, so are all the Conservatives on this site. Libs, too–realistically, we’re getting nowhere.

      An idea–how about America seek statesmen instead of politicians? Maybe that’s what we need, whether Right or Left. Maybe–just for an idea–we need fresh vision, maybe another Great Awakening (sans religion as a factor as part of the term).

      I’m totally Constitutionalist, of that there is no doubt.

      Something has gone very seriously wrong on the most important level: our society.

      Just some ideas…

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    • Liberal_Atheist_Critical_Thinker
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:05pm

      UpstateNYConservative,

      I can talk to you I think.

      We need politicians that don’t take any donations from corporations and serve a single term, so they know they are just going to DC to do a job for the country and going back home to their communities.

      How’s that for starters?

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:19pm

      Ah, but the problem isn’t corporations, per se. The problem is politicians–those types who make a career out of being re-elected, perpetually in campaign mode.

      Now, you and I have differing views–fair enough. My problem isn’t with you and the liberal view. My problem lies with those Congresscritters who have, for decades, refused something like term limits. Why is that; does that serve We the People?

      H*ll no! On both sides of the aisle. that pompous self-aggrandizing status quo negates you and me as Citizens.

      I truly believe that, left alone, Americans get along just fine. The only monkey wrench I see is politicians.

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:31pm

      It`s funny you people would be looking at The Blaze site, see I couldn`t tell you if there`s a liberal site such as the Blaze in liberal ville.

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  • Joshua Tyler
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:30pm

    Conservatism couldn’t find Bin Laden for seven years. Liberalism found and killed Bin Laden, in two and a half years. Ta daaa . . .

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    • On The Bayou
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:28pm

      The CIA found him back in August of 2010, they have been on Obama`s a$$ to take action. Obama`s hand was forced. He and Vallerie Jarret were holding out until the very minute of the raid. Google it.

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    • mill
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:25pm

      oh bull Joshua Tyler!!! , you DID drink the kool aid..tahdah!!!!!!!!
      poor boo…you‘ll have a little hang over then realize you’re a putz

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    • thinkinghuman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:40pm

      I am NOT buying into that whole liberalism/conservatism tussle. They are all the SAME. People seeking to overthrow the government, in two different ways. We have people like NEWT recently outed for supporting Global Warming. Wake up and accept, they are all the same. Centrists leaning left. A few exceptions.

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:23pm

    Oh, for frack’s sake! Quit posturing, quit measuring your stance for the media spotlight and a 12-second-nothing sound bite.

    Instead, blaze a real trail. Tell us what you’re into go fix America. Our Nation comes first. A politician‘s ego doesn’t make any list worth considering.

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  • PatriotSmith
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:21pm

    Wait if she can see it why can’t we?

    http://www.patriotsmith.com

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  • pinnybogg
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:18pm

    so much has been said about the picture. Some say fake , some say real, what are we to believe??? Have to go with out guts on this because they will NOT let us see them, might hurt a radical islamists and that would only lead to more terorist attacks that are coming anyways

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  • psst
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:14pm

    Geez! how come the employees gets a lookysee and the employers are told to go an phflqwudsck themselves.
    As usual, “They” know what’s good for us.We don’t have the stomach fo it blah-blah.
    Truth be told, Soetoro don’t want to rile his religious affiliated radical jihadist tribes.
    I don’t know for sure one way or the other if the person killed was OBL.
    IMO, if it was OBL, Soetoro knew where he was for at least a year. This kill order was supposed to have gone out next year just before the election.
    But w/ Jerome Corsi’s book aout Soetoro due out next week, he had to do something biiiiiggg.
    He did two things. Released his phony BC (it was slow cook’n for 2 yrs) and gave the order to kill OBL..

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  • oh_yeah
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:13pm

    i ?

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  • the_zazzy
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:04pm

    They are the Obama regime!

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    • Bob1943
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 8:23am

      I agree, along with the dung-head media and the Department of Injustice!!

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  • Hawt'n'secksie
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:03pm

    Yes. Release the DNA analysis and I will dust off my genetics text books so I can interperate the data myself and come to a conclusion. Or maybe Maury will do an episode on it. I believe him more than anyone on the planet (and he is one hawt mofo).

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    • let us prey
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:17pm

      Yes H “N” S
      I too am dusting off my Beginners guide to interpreting ethnic DNA. All the markers and sequences will be compared for analysis. Are these people crazy or what?

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  • TheGreyPiper
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:02pm

    Really guys, we gotta let this go. Making an issue of this is absurd. Let the lefties have their vast right wing conspiracies and the Troofers and Lyndon LaRouche, the Dems loony in chief. ******* 1 is dead, Sock Puppet got him, or at least didn’t get in the way of those who did get him. Move on. Harping on this only gives ammo to those who want to see this halfwit in the Oval Office for another term.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:01pm

      I like how people don’t realize that this Osama thing is a mere distraction.

      Regardless if he is dead or not, it does not affect our countries situation one bit.

      The only thing it does is give both established parties ammo, to label people who don’t like the idea of a world police “unpatriotic”.

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  • hlopeor
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:58pm

    Why you can see the photos and I not

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  • NoTrashTalkHere
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:55pm

    Good enough for me.

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  • Saxindacity
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:53pm

    Check out the inane comments in the MPLS StarTribune directed toward Bachmann in regards to vewing the OBL photos. http://www.startribune.com/politics/blogs/121706099.html I think the liberal loons there hate Bachmann more than they did bin laden (I’m from Minnesota btw)…mention the name Michele Bachmann in that paper and the left goes scurrying like **** roaches in the night to spew their vitriol.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:00pm

      I deal with those lunatics on a daily basis. I think the Strib hires leftists to post comments. There are about 10 of us conservatives that regularly post, and 8M leftists using the same tired rants to attack the messenger(s).

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    • Mr. Nice Guy
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:31pm

      I prefer the other newspaper. You know, the one that used to have Calvin and Hobbes.

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:12pm

      Good luck! (MNs should know that one. CI = 44)

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  • Bret
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:53pm

    If she is convinced, then why not toss all the DNA into the middle of the ocean, too?

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  • Bret
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:51pm

    This is such a joke… What was she comparing the picture to? Al the phony video that we have first been saturated with? “Yup, that is the boogey man!”

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    • copatriots
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:58pm

      Absolutely agree, Bret. While I have more regard for Bachmann than others, when did she become a forensic expert? I wouldn’t trust the photos even if they did release them. It’s just lies, lies and more lies with this administration.

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  • Islesfordian
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:51pm

    Most of us don’t have a problem believing we got bin Laden, so we don’t need politicains to “reassure us”. We just think it would be good to see the pictures. Screew the Jihadists and the terrorist apologists. Let’s humiliate the bastrd a little more.

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    • brado9505
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:55pm

      wish we beheaded him and put his head on a stick, paraded for all to see!

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  • MinnesotaMARINE
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:47pm

    So much for one shot one kill. Hahahahahaha…. : ]

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  • Bob1943
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:46pm

    They are not to be trusted anymore than the Obama regime!!

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  • sablegsd
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:46pm

    WE paid for those photos and everything leading up to them. WE suffered during and after 9/11.

    How DARE they pick and choose which cronies get to see them. WE THE PEOPLE WANT TO SEE THEM!

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    • survivorseed
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 1:50am

      Why do Blazers want to see photos of a man with half his head missing? Is this what they call right wing porn.

      Blazers are a hoot

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  • Sinista MACE
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:42pm

    ROTFLMFAO!!!

    THIS IS THE CHAMELEON WHO VOTED TO REAUTHORIZE THE PATRIOT ACT!

    Don’t be fooled.

    I don’t think these clowns realize that Congresspersons and Senators are NOT the American People.

    We are THEIR BOSSES.

    WE WANT TO SEE THE PHOTO OURSELVES.

    EVERYTHING PUT OUT SO FAR IS PHOTOSHOPPED FAKERY AND NO ONE BUYS IT BECAUSE SOME POLITICIAN SAYS THEY SEEN IT.

    OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN DEAD.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:44pm

      Stop yelling. One sentence in lower case does not an impression make!

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

      I’ll never vote for Bachmann after she voted for the Patriot Act.

      She has lost all credibility.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:46pm

      @Sinista ~
      “…BECAUSE SOME POLITICIAN SAYS THEY SEEN IT.”

      See, saw, (have/has) seen

      Which government school did you attend?

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    • Jd85
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:49pm

      Ok yoda..

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    • Bob1943
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:53pm

      “OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN DEAD.”

      I don’t know for sure, but the credibility of someone I have never met, on an Internet website, is better than that of the Obama regime, or anyone from Congress.

      I’m guessing for 4 years or more.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:54pm

      Go away, troll.

      You an your cadre of troglodytes have lost.

      If the best you can do is correct grammar as if you’re the bastion of grammatical correctness then you ought to petition google or some website to take the place of their spellgrammarchecker thing.

      Loser.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:56pm

      You must be one of the lesser trolls. You do nothing but cheerlead when others make corny insults and point out spelling and grammar when you’re left to your own little brain.\

      Why don’t you get a life and stop trolling my every breath.

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:05pm

      Pthhhhhhttttttt

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    • american1st
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:42pm

      if the we people can see them and analyze them for photo shopping, and compare nose and ear shape, i would be more satisfied than i am with trusting what the CIA lets congressmen see under CIA supervision,
      i don’t doubt he is dead, i just don‘t trust the governments story’s about when and where…

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    • MHP
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 9:14pm

      Sinista

      You’ve heard Alex Jones talk of Hardin, MT. I’m 150 miles from there. 1/2 of it is on the reservation.
      Soon as my friend comes back up to visit, we’re gonna head up there. I was advised by a gun dealer down here to go up armed.

      We’re aware of a FEMA camp up near Yellowstone, But I haven‘t heard exactly where it’s at.
      You got any Idea?
      Another one purportedly is at the WW II Heart Mountain Relocation Camp 20 miles east of me.
      Some sites say that is being rebuilt as a FEMA Camp, which is not the case here.
      They actually made it into an interpretive center. 3 of the original barracks are still there along with the smokestack. I’ve been there many times, and will reopen to the public this year.

      I do want to find the one near Yellowstone tho.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 2:56am

      MHT

      I have no idea, I’m in Cleveland, but I have been searching for areas that have been converted into FEMA processing areas, a lot of locations present itself, all are located near train tracks if not directly adjacent to them, and they all are very large areas like gigantic parking lots. I’ve also noticed renovation to a number of defunct shopping malls…

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    • Code_Orange
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:00am

      Mr. Showtime seems to be a web policeman troll! How critical!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:36pm

      hahahahahahahahaha…fema camps…hahahahahahahaha

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  • the iceman
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:39pm

    Good enough for me!

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:43pm

      You’re the Ice in the Official Kool-Aid that Dr Steve Pieczenik peed in.

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    • mill
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:15pm

      maybe all of us are not as trusting of a dishonest administration s you seem to be

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    • thinkinghuman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:35pm

      Total Koolaid time

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    • tifosa
      Posted on May 14, 2011 at 7:18am

      Face it, President Obama, the intel community, and the SEALS aced it. Bin Laden is history thanx to them.

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:38pm

    Yes, DNA match should be released to the public on Osama’s identity!

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    • Revere1
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:43pm

      Now it’s confirmed. I trust Bachmann more than Obama on this one. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/04/what-about-bachmann.html

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 5:45pm

      NOW I believe it. Thanks Michele

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:04pm

      How do we know that she has not seen those fakes of dead Osama going around all over the world ?
      How does she know they are not fake?

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:18pm

      It is very odd that osama hasn’t put out a video in years (he always loved doing that), esp. with all stuff going on the past few years.

      HOWEVER – It doesn’t matter, BHO had nothing to do with his death one way or the other. If osama was just killed by the SEALS, BHO did not give the order, the CIA did.

      SO – We need to get our eyes back on the ball. BHO is destroying our country and we must stop him.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Show the pics to WE the PEOPLE NOW!!!

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:42pm

      Bin Lauden is now officially deader than a doornail; so lets get back to what matters and get the nation on course for recovery and getting the progressives and Obama out of office in ‘12 so we are able to save her from the nightmare coming to life all about us.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:52pm

      @Revere1

      I trust Bachmann more than Obama and most of Washington D.C. including many other Republicans … NO MORE RINO’s!

      TEA!

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    • GETLIFE
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 6:57pm

      So can we all visit CIA HQ to see the photos?

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    • GONESURFING
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:10pm

      OBL is probably dead, now show the world the pictures, we want proof.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:20pm

      Better Question:

      Who cares?

      Since OBL is dead, let us ask ourselves some questions:

      Will it bring back those who died on 9/11? No.
      Will it fix our economy? No.
      Will it end the wars in the middle east? It should, but no.
      Will it fix corrupt politicians who play these topics to distract you from real topics? No.

      This is a political game you people are falling for. I am glad justice was served to that evil person. Regardless, let us move on to more important issues.

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    • AzDebi
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:21pm

      I want the pictures released to the American public!

      Does anyone except me find it interesting that al qaeda believes that he is DEAD…Bin Laden’s sons believe that he is DEAD…do you think that photos were released to them? I have to believe that they were…anyone else suspect that except me? You think that THEY would believe our government just because they said it was so? I don’t…

      Do I believe that he is DEAD? Yep…still, I believe that the pictures BELONG to the American People and they have no right to keep them away from us…I think Obama just doesn’t want to be tied to the “gruesome” image! Quite frankly, why would I care a rats a** what he wants?

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    • Code_Orange
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:29pm

      Thank you Congresswoman Michelle! Now that you have demonstrated your ability as commander in chief to authoritatively represent a secret photo, it is time for you to formally run for the presidency. Your tweet puts me at ease and I no longer doubt the Obama Administration, so thank you very much. You made my day!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 7:49pm

      I wish I was one of the privileged class to be able to see the photo.

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    • mill
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:14pm

      Yeah, and I just confirmed that Mickey Mouse is actually Muhammad of Muslim/Islamic fame….

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    • thinkinghuman
      Posted on May 12, 2011 at 8:32pm

      Sorry, she has always seemed dumb enough and spotlight seeking enough to make me doubt her no matter the subject. I certainly don’t believe that she “knows” anything from looking at photos. Gimmeabrake.

      To be honest, I am troubled by all of the neighbors over there who say the video of the guy watching TV was someone else they know. With propaganda the way it is, I trust government LESS than citizens, no matter the country.

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:14am

      WE got OUR man, said Ms. Bachmann.

      Unfortunately, Ms. Bachmann has been against EVERYTHING that this President is, does or stands for.

      Only now does she admit that WE got OUR man – as if she had a great hand in – and supported – the successful raid.

      Hypocrisy – thy name is Bachmann!

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    • tifosa
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 7:43am

      “We?”

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    • weeblewacker1
      Posted on May 13, 2011 at 10:22am

      oh Michele,you poor,miss-guided idiot.shhhhhhh,it’s time to be quite now dear.your ignorance is showing,again. oh,by the way Michele,are you going to take up that 10th grade girl on a debate about the constitution? i know,i know,your scared a 15-16 year-old-girl would clean up the floor with you.say good-bye,Michele. http://minnesotaindependent.com/81476/high-schooler-challenges-bachmann-to-debate-on-u-s-constitution

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    • jzs
      Posted on May 14, 2011 at 1:23am

      Release the DNA match! Right now!

      But I’m wondering what that would look like and how that would prove anything. Could any of us tell the difference or similiarity in the DNA between Glenn Beck and Obama? What does DNA look like anyway? Is it, like, a photograph on the DNA of the the two people and you look at the 100,000 molecules and say, “Yep looks the same,“ or ”Nope, not a match.”

      Somebody tell me how they do these genetic comparisons, and how I’d know it was or was not a match. Then explain to me how you could convince anybody but a geneticist that those numbers prove anything. OJ Simpson got off the hook partly because, although his blood was everywhere at the crime scene, in his car and in in his house, nobody could understand the genetics.

      No, Bachmann is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. She says she believes OBL is dead, but is proposing that the government “show the DNA evidence” something she knows nobody could possibly undersand.

      OBL is dead. Cut the crap about proving it. If you don’t believe it now, nothing you see will convince you, photographs, DNA, whatever.

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