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Agorism
05-04-2011, 11:07 PM
Michael Moore: 'Bin Laden Wasn't Killed, He Was Executed'

http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/michael-moore-bin-laden-wasnt-killed-he-was-executed-27097




Osama bin Laden wasn’t killed by a Navy SEAL team, he was straight up executed, Michael Moore told TheWrap on Wednesday,

The “Fahrenheit 9/11” director has been setting Twitter aflame Wednesday afternoon urging the Obama administration to come clean about the circumstances surrounding the terrorist leader’s death -- particularly in light of the White House’s shifting account of last weekend’s firefight in Abbottabad.

Also read: Reuters Buys Blood-Soaked Bin Laden Raid Photos, Publishes Them

The Oscar-winning director has been tweeting about his belief that Bin Laden should have received a trial, and his theory that Pakistan was keeping the Al Qaeda head under house arrest. TheWrap grilled Moore about his controversial views.

Is Obama lying about how Bin Laden died?

Common sense tells you he was executed. That was the plan all along. Just tell us that and quit treating us like children.

I have a lot of faith in Obama, but we’ve received three different stories in three days. We heard, "There was a firefight." "He used a woman as a shield." Now it turns out none of these things were true. He wasn’t armed.

Does it matter if he was executed? Do you think he deserved a trial?

I am a Catholic, and the position of the Catholic Church and the Pope is that we are 100 percent against the death penalty unless it is in self-defense. Look at the Nuremberg Trials. We didn’t just pop a bullet in the heads of the worst scum in history. We thought it was important to put them on trial and expose their evil. In a democracy we believe in a system of justice and we believe in a judicial system that gives people a day in court...and then we hung them.

It doesn’t mean we can’t hang them afterward.

Do you think people will be angry if it turns out the operation was less heroic than it originally seemed?

It was heroic. There was no need to embellish things. People in positions of power tread so gingerly around the electorate. Some people may not like it, but don’t bullsh*t us anymore about stuff like this.

The government, especially the Pentagon, has a poor track record of telling the truth, starting with Jessica Lynch. Pat Tillman, that was all made up, and this firefight is going to turn out to be hooey.

Also Read: Killing Bin Laden: Keeping Secrets in the Age of WikiLeaks

Will it hurt Obama if the story turns out to have been partly false?

It won’t hurt him, because the basic facts will remain the same. Osama is still dead and everybody is happy about it.

In your tweets you say that Pakistan was safeguarding Bin Laden.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This was a garrison city.

pcosmar
05-04-2011, 11:12 PM
Discontent from the other side of the aisle.

All of this is only going to make Ron look better.
The man is the only clear choice.

Agorism
05-05-2011, 01:42 PM
bump

Was the mission Kill-Only?

UtahApocalypse
05-05-2011, 01:48 PM
More I hear the more I doubt the story as told, ot the legalities of the event. CNN reported a bit ago that the only firefight that actually occurred was in the guest house across the compound.

jmdrake
05-05-2011, 02:13 PM
bump

Was the mission Kill-Only?

That's what they said at first. And the neocons were all like "Obama! Amerika! F*ck yeah!". Then Obama's liberal supporters started getting cold feet so they came out with the firefight story. Now it's "Well they had authorization to kill him, but if he raised his hands and waived a white flag they wouldn't have killed him." Yea right. :rolleyes: And we're supposed to believe Osama and his young wife were resisting without a weapon. So now Osama was some sort of Islamic Ninja? Or maybe it was his wife?

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/342/6/0/Muslim_Women_are_So_Ninja_by_mindfornication.jpg

http://brokenmystic.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dust.jpg?w=422&h=622

Agorism
05-05-2011, 02:16 PM
Did the WH itself ever claim it was kill only?

nobody's_hero
05-05-2011, 02:20 PM
Well, color me surprised. :confused:

UtahApocalypse
05-05-2011, 02:21 PM
Did the WH itself ever claim it was kill only?

No they claim that U.S. Navy Seals felt threatened by a unarmed 53 year old on dialysis.

Agorism
05-05-2011, 02:22 PM
I seem to recall a lot of talk about a kill only mission at the beginning of all this. I just don't who it was from.

jmdrake
05-05-2011, 02:25 PM
Did the WH itself ever claim it was kill only?

Unnamed spokesman only.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/us-binladen-kill-idUSTRE7413H220110502

Here's a blog spinning to keep up with the spin.

http://legalift.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/seals-got-order-to-kill-not-capture-osama-bin-laden/