Once upon a time there was a US President eager to be re-elected in 2012 and so he announced to the world that he'd had his supposed archenemy killed in a foreign land----and quickly disposed his body in the sea so nobody could see it. The excuse used was that it was in accordance with his religious custom. Convenient, you might suggest---it certainly puts the body beyond scrutiny. Ten years of fighting terror at a cost of billions of taxpayers’ dollars and the leader of the terror is "vanished" beyond oversight of the same taxpayers. Are we really that credulous? Can someone announce the monster has been slain without showing the body as proof of fact---or can I announce anything I like and simply insist people believe what I say?
May I remind readers of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident of August 1964 when the then Democratic President of the United States used this falsified incident to enter and expand the Vietnam War. Then there are Nixon’s mendacious antics and Clinton’s Lewinsky lies to bear in mind. White House falsifications are legendary and numerous.
Without clear verifiable PROOF nothing should be taken on trust from any US President—while they rely on their armies of spin merchants and have thrown out any pretence of morality and ethics.
