Originally Posted by windsong (Post 9341218)

Time will tell . . .

I did not read anything about DNA. I just read now they are contemplating releasing very graphic photos today because they knew there would be disbelievers. However, even photos doesn't mean it happened recently ;)

Originally Posted by trottytrue (Post 9341657)

Lets hope between the DNA and the photos it will dispell any ideas that he is not dead.

Windsong...I think no matter where we live people think for themselves and make decisions according to their own filter of the news.

Originally Posted by sallysimmons (Post 9341528)

Just had to post this because I think it's one of the most amazing pictures I've ever seen. You really see the level of risk involved in the operation and the tension on every face - each one expressing it in a different way.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whiteho...4572/lightbox/

Of course they could all have been faking it for the cameras :lol:

Originally Posted by sallysimmons (Post 9341487)

I know what you mean about being frightened but I honestly think more attacks were coming anyway. That's just the nature of the beast. Even though most of us had forgotten about it, the terrorists hadn't.

Right after 9/11 I used to get nervous whenever I had to go into NYC but now I just figure risk is a part of life and I don't even think about it. I'm far more likely to die in a car crash, or because I smoked for 20 years, than I am to die in a terrorist attack. Just think how many people have died since 9/11 in freak accidents. I bet it's a lot more than 3,000. Or how many have died from a heart attack because they ate too many burgers?

And if I am one of the unlucky ones and it's a terrorist attack that gets me, well that's the way it was meant to be. But then we all grew up with the threat of IRA bombs so maybe we're used to it.

Originally Posted by anishq (Post 9341621)

Also is the Pakistan op. the reason why the Obamas didn't/couldn't attend the wedding and the news that they were not invited is misinformation?

Originally Posted by windsong (Post 9341670)

Trotty, I have to disagree. I do not think everyone thinks for themselves.

Originally Posted by chriswinter (Post 9341737)

Other US presidents and even a PM or 2 has not been invited to some Royal Weddings..
http://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/oba...royal-wedding/

I have also read that the President of France wasn't invited either. Seems it was the heads of Commonwealth nations, Royalty of other countries and UK elected officials were invited. So from that I am going to deduce that if one was an elected official from a non-Commonwealth nation..no invite was forthcoming (:confused:). No inside source for me..:o, but is what I'm going to assume.
;)

Chris

Originally Posted by Derrygal (Post 9341743)

The wedding wasn't considered a state occasion so that's why the Obamas and other foreign leaders weren't invited. I believe the Obamas are going on a state visit to the UK sometime this month.

Originally Posted by Derrygal (Post 9341743)

The wedding wasn't considered a state occasion so that's why the Obamas and other foreign leaders weren't invited. I believe the Obamas are going on a state visit to the UK sometime this month.

Originally Posted by sallysimmons (Post 9340506)

I'm not sure anything I have ever posted suggests I am the kind of person who takes every word I read in the media as gospel truth. :blink:

But likewise, I don't believe everything that happens is suspect. In this case, my reading of all the reports makes me very sure that bin Laden is dead and that he was buried at sea. Everyone is entitled to a different opinion, but that's mine and here is why:

I know which journalists in America I trust and which I don't and many of the ones I trust are reporting interesting details that make perfect sense.

I also know that if there was the faintest whiff of doubt about this, the 2012 Presidential candidates and the Republican opposition would be all over it. They haven't given President Obama the benefit of the doubt on anything in 2 years and there's no reason they would start now.

And finally, I don't think Obama is stupid enough to make a huge pow-wow about having killed someone if he thought that person could pop up a few days later with a new video tape!

They may release photos soon, although my understanding is that the photos are extremely unpleasant because Bin Laden was shot in the face. This is the only reason for delay. I assume the congress has seen those photos, hence the lack of argument from them.

Anyway, that's my reasoning - which is far from believing everything I read in the media.

Originally Posted by cheers (Post 9341767)

This worries me because the US Secret Service has a mandate to protect the president and I wonder how they are going to do that in the UK. I have worked with the Secret Service and they have a cowboy mentality, though I really liked the ones I worked with but if they let lose with their guns in London I hope they will be held accountable to British law. How they are going to handle the situation remains to be seen.

Also remember they say we will never know what happened to Kennedy in Dallas or Princess Diane in Paris. Scary right?