Habeas Corpus
by digby
I expect this from a neanderthal drunk in a bar today, but coming from a US Senator it’s enough to make you sick:
A leading Republican senator on Monday questioned the U.S. government’s decision to dispose of Osama bin Laden’s body within 24 hours.
Bin Laden, the former al Qaeda leader killed by U.S. forces on Sunday, was buried at sea within 24 hours of his death in accordance with Islamic law. Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), a top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, is skeptical of the decision.
“To me, that didn’t make a lot of sense,” Graham said during an interview with conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham.
I think Graham’s motives are probably fairly prosaic. He’s up for re-election and is considered unreliable by the Tea Partiers. The wingnuts are in desperate need of a fresh conspiracy theory and this one has the potential to be a doozy.
The usual suspects are already on it:
Andrew Breitbart, a prominent right-wing commentator with close ties to the Republican Party and the Tea Party, is pushing the theory on his website Big Peace. On Breitbart’s website, J. Michael Walker, suggests Obama take a number of extraordinary steps so he can “make sure [Osama] is dead.” Pictures are apparently not enough. Walker asserts that he needs to be able to “walk right up to bin Laden’s corpse and view it.” More:
The free world, particularly the United States, has a right to make sure Osama bin Laden is really dead. Every American has a right to walk right up to bin Laden’s corpse and view it. We are entitled to know for a fact that the witch is dead. No shroud for dignity’s sake, please – bin Laden’s naked, bullet-riddled corpse should be put on display in lower Manhattan for all the world to see. The entire body should be digitally scanned, inside and out – and made available for everyone to take his or her own picture.
Walker ads that “For us Doubting Thomases out there – we need to see in order to believe.”
This is necessary because we’re so good and they’re so evil.
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