Obama blocks (or tries to block) release of prisoner mistreatment photos.....He's learning that hiding crap under the rug is preferable to showing the American People how down and dirty things can get......

I don't expect much criticism from the left....

"He's learning that hiding crap under the rug is preferable to showing the American People how down and dirty things can get......"

Much like hiding the Holocaust photos for so many years.

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I didn't like Bush, but that doesn't mean I
have to love Obama.
And just because I don't love Obama, doesn't
make Bush look any better.

  Here we go, the "right to know" again.  I really do think the govt. should "stimulate" the post office system by mailing several pounds of daily govt. memos to every mailing address in the nation.  What the hell, it's no less a black hole that the other stimulus payouts.

gus.

 

"He's learning that hiding crap under the rug is preferable to showing the American People how down and dirty things can get......"

He's also learning that it's more difficult to make decisions and be accountable than being a Senator and spouting solutions to problems that that don't work. But if those solutions are tried, he is not accountable.

That's the difference between having executive experience and having only a loud-mouthed Community Orfganizer's experience.

The one thing that has always bothered me about "publishing the photos" is that it may do two things that I find abhorrent:

1)  It may violate the Geneva Convention by identifying foreign nationals in ways that might cause harm to their families (or even the detainees, since it has been obvious that some of them were completely innocent); and,

2)  It might identify low level military and/or cia operatives to further harm, when the real culprits were way back up the food chain from them

I disagree with ACLU on this one.

Jim...

This has nothing to do with transparency.  This is about doing the right thing by our troops who remain on foreign soil.

 

This has nothing to do with transparency.  This is about doing the right thing by our troops who remain on foreign soil.

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How so?

Jim..

The photos represent past actions.  The troops now serving do not deserve to be the brunt of any rekindled anger.

 

The photos represent past actions.  The troops now serving do not deserve to be the brunt of any rekindled anger.

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Well, I agree with that.  But, I suspect we come to that conclusion from very different vantage points. 

I think the higher ups should be held accountable, and publishing those photos will do nothing to advance that idea.. in fact, it would make American Servicemen and women even more of a target. 

I suspect (although I do not know) that this decision is caught up in the attempt to engage Iran and Pakistan in negotiations down below the radar.

Jim..

The sonuvabitch knows that the release of these photos wouldn't satisfy the hunger of the rabid leftist. Listen to what he says in the first 30 seconds, the photos are not sensational ala Abu Graigh.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30729544

I think Obama is pandering to bacon and skip. He knows on this one issue they will fall in line and be his BFF.