Your reporting is inaccurate. It was the media that first said that Bin Laden was armed and had used a woman, possibly his wife, as a human shield. The first time the White House said anything about that was when the Press Secretary, Jay Carney revealed that Bin Laden was unarmed but resistant, while it was another man who had used a woman as a human shield, and that the woman was not Bin Laden's wife. The White House was very clear about that point. The media and their "unnamed sources" got it wrong. The White House has not said that they took Bin Laden alive and shot him afterwards. You're either making that up or you got it from a faulty source. On the photo front, we learned that the President was weighing releasing an image of a dead Bin Laden, but he decided against it because he felt it would be glorifying our sense of vengeance while justice had already been administered. Again, your reporting is off. When you are in the supermarket weighing whether to buy this peanut butter or that peanut butter, you're in the middle of making a decision; that doesn't make you "indecisive" or "shifty". President Obama is meeting today with the SEALs who took Bin Laden out, on what Lou Panetta has said was a "kill mission" all the way. To deny the overwhelming success of this mission is to slap those heroes right in the face and to deny them their success as well. I'm not sure what sources you're looking at on this, but it's all rather straight-forward thus far, particularly when you consider the CIA hardly ever reveals something as clear as "we were on orders to kill Bin Laden". Now we learn that there was a treasure trove of evidence picked up at the compound, including details on the bombing of trains this upcoming 9/11/11 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. So they killed Bin Laden and they also got actionable intel in the process that will help us avert another potentially huge attack. No matter what angle you approach it, this has been one of the most glaring American successes in foreign policy in quite some time, but since this President is not white and his last name ain't Reagan and he's not a Republican, the "carnival barkers" rear their ugly heads once more and are politicizing a most apolitical event and a cause for celebration to all Americans, blue or red.