Last week, when President Barack Obama released his long-form birth certificate, he silenced many of the critics, birthers, who didn’t believe that he was born in the United States. Now, the birth certificate controversy has been replaced by another one: whether or not Osama Bin Laden is actually dead.
Some believe, as the president stated, that Bin Laden was killed last week. But there are many others who think that Bin Laden was killed years ago, with the information only being announced recently. Finally, there are some who think that Bin Laden is alive and being interrogated.
Even commentators on Fox News are implying that there might be something deeper going on. Judge Andrew Napolitano said that he was not convinced that Bin Laden was dead. He also didn’t believe that the president had the authority to kill him.
On his show, Napolitano said that Bin Laden was “killed on the illegal whim of the president.” He then said, “Osama bin Laden is dead. And the president seems to think he has the right to kill whomever he wants so long as the person is perceived as a monster and the public supports it.”
Napolitano also wondered if the Obama Administration is “telling us the truth or pulling a fast one to save Obama’s lousy presidency.” He even asked a guest, “Do you believe he’s dead, or do you want some more evidence: a photograph, a testimony of an eyewitness? Something other than the words of a president whose words we have doubted before?”
Alex Jones, a Texas-based Right Wing radio show host whose YouTube channel has more than 24 million views, said ”My friends, this is a complete and total hoax. Where’s the body?….My White House sources nine years ago, on record, confirmed that he had been killed and was frozen on ice.”
Critics on both sides of the spectrum seem to doubt Obama. Cindy Sheehan, a woman who became famous for protesting the Iraq War by camping out in front of the home of former President George W. Bush, said this on her Facebook page:
“It’s not that I don’t believe Obama about Osama because he’s Obama, I don’t believe him because he is just one in along line of butt-naked emperors,” she said.
“The only proof of Osama being dead again that we were offered was Obama telling us that there was a DNA match between the man killed by the Navy SEALs and OBL. Even if it is possible to get DNA done so quickly, and the regime did have bin Laden DNA lying around a lab somewhere — where is the empirical proof?”
