Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 05, 2011
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Earl: Dad, I know you've been pretty busy entertaining His Excellency... but things are getting pretty backed up in the office. It'd be good if you actually showed up once in a while. Duke: You sound a bit stressed, boy. Earl: Do I? Maybe it's because we flack for three regimes currently slaughtering their own people! Duke: Though hard to complain in this economy, right, son? Man: What a baby! Earl: See you in the car.
The photos of bin Laden’s corps were taken folks, but from what I understand, they are of a grizzly nature, and not suitable for the general distribution papers of the “Evening News” on TV. In case you are too young, or that you care to forget, there was a lot of hell raised when either a Time or a Life photojournalist took a picture of the Vietnamese National Chief of Police summarily executing a Viet Cong prisoner. The photo was at the moment the bullet exited the prisoners head. A lot of people objected to it. Think about how many more would scream now.
As for the conspiracy theorists who claim Osama hasn’t been executed, etc, etc; show me some form of proof for your position. I was never Special Operations, but I have worked around and near them before, and as someone here said a few days ago, if a SEAL said they got bin Laden, believe it, they got him.
Well done SEAL Team Six. Enjoy your recovery, and then get ready for your next mission.