Literary Discussions

I did NOT have any DESIRE to see such photos... I just could not believe the news story.... that a woman would bum rush Navy Seals and they would shoot her in the LEG (you do not USE lethal force unless it is important that you be LETHAL... you do not do trick shots because you might actually kill someone)... I did not see the point of showing some cluttered dump with blood stains and a dog barking outside... I could not believe that they would do such an operation and NOT publicize photos. They said bin Laden stood their unarmed but "because he offered resistance the Seal used good discretion to shoot him once in the chest... and I guess a second seal blew have his head away) ... and you mean the wife got shot in the leg with one of those rounds and still has a leg.... that sort of ammo blows limbs and heads right off your body....   you mean they did NOT intend to take him dead BUT they had elaborate plans for a burial at sea and the time to contact many nations who REFUSED to take the body...   BY no means did I want to see some gory photo.... I just do not believe my government and I do not believe the media/press/news and too many things seemed fishy...    in my life I have seen photos of JFK getting his head blown away, Jack Ruby shooting Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (took me 10 minutes to remember) in the chest/stomach ... terrorist beheadings....  Vietnamese children running naked from napalm, firing squad executions after WWII and by Castro...   in short I have seen all the same photos that you and everyone else have seen... and I saw video of Saddam wandering around his cell in his underwear, so I could not imagine that the American suddenly acquired dignity, honor, taste....   BUT now I feel that I understand what happened and why certain choices were made. I THINK they were wise to simply execute him because a live bin Laden in captivity and on trial presents far more problems than a dead bin Laden at the bottom of the ocean. I think it is disingenuous to claim that it was all up to one Navy Seal to take him dead. If the orders had been to take him alive then they would have taken them alive. One other person from the compound was taken alive but they have not identified who that person is.  Now as an afterthought... the secret Nixon tapes went public and wikileaks was able to leak all sorts of things, so IF it is the case that our government does not want those photos released then I suggest they destroy all copies, otherwise one day it will be released or leaked.