When Jessica Dawn Lynch was rescued by US Special Operation Forces after her capture in Iraq we were inundated with film footage of her rescue, the first successful rescue of an American Prisoner of War since the second world war.
Big news at the time but the Pentagon spin subsequently was proven to be a fabricated and enhanced account of her capture and resulting rescue.
Ironically she was born in Palestine, though the one in West Virginia not the Middle East.
Fast forward from March 2003 to May 2011 and another secret operation which was hailed as the most significant achievement in Obama's Presidency and footage of the extrajudicial execution of an unarmed Osama Bin Laden Americas most wanted terrorist is not being shown.
The bounce that Obama is experiencing in the polls due to his decisive decision may well evaporate when the significance of taking out Bin Laden outside the parameters of law sinks in and the operation to kill an unarmed man looks less heroic than the spin Washington is trying to put on a perverted President watching a man being executed in what effectively was a snuff movie.
God help us all if the Nation built on Law continues to act outside it and a President is complicit in his lies.
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ReplyDeleteA snuff movie is a motion picture genre that depicts the actual death or murder of a person or people, without the aid of special effects, for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation.