MB Civic

The official dissembling begins like this:

“WASHINGTON — On Monday, the Obama administration said that Osama bin Laden had been killed after a firefight with Navy Seal commandos, and that he had used his wife as a human shield. On Tuesday, the administration said that Bin Laden was not armed at all, and that his wife had not been a shield, but had rushed her husband’s assaulter and was shot in the leg. On Wednesday, the administration backtracked again. This time it downgraded its initial accounts of a firefight that raged throughout the raid to gunshots fired only at the beginning of the nearly 40-minute operation by Bin Laden’s courier, who was quickly dispatched by the commandos. What happened? In the view of officials from past and present presidencies, it was a classic collision of a White House desire to promote a stunning national security triumph — and feed a ravenous media — while collecting facts from a chaotic military operation on the other side of the world. At the same time, White House officials worked hard to use the facts of the raid to diminish Bin Laden’s legacy. ‘There has never been any intent to deceive or dramatize,’ a military official said Thursday, asking that he not be named because of ground rules imposed by the Department of Defense. ‘Everything we put out we really believed to be true at the time.’”

This might be acceptable if our gov’t did not have a history of obfuscation, dissembling, spin and lies – and if they did not release a photo showing Obama, Clinton and others WATCHING THE RAID AS IT OCCURRED. If that photo was not a phony (which, of course, it was), are they trying to tell us that, in real time, they could not tell the difference between a “firefight” and a single person getting off a few shots BEFORE the SEAL team entered the building? That they did not know, in real time, that OBL’s wife was only injured and not killed? That they did not know, in real time, that OBL was unarmed?

What I don’t understand is why more people (okay, sheeple) cannot see this incident for the phony it was. Okay, they were too “shocked and awed” “in the moment” to see what 9/11 really was. But THIS is so BLATANTLY phony that it shows, perhaps better than anything in recent memory, the dumbing down of the American public, and their complete and absolute inability to show ANY understanding, discernment or (supportable) skepticism whatsoever.

Peace.