The candidate that ran, in part, on our execution of the war and the manner in which we were treating the enemy and promised the most transparent administration in history suddenly changes course only after a court orders the release of the photos (which was what many in his party wanted...while Bush was in office)?
No, there was nothing political about that at all, I'm sure.
Fantastique wrote:
The fact of the matter is AG and OBL photos CANNOT be compared directly. Only simple-minded republicans would think so, probably because they just both happen to be pictures? Idk what goes on in their heads.
AG: Leaked photos, about prisoner abuse bordering on human rights violations (or actually committing them, not sure what the ruling was and don't feel like looking it up). Positive for leak is that the human scum responsible for the abuse were brought to justice. Yes, I mean those troops. I hope they rot in prison forever since they are just as bad as any terrorist.
OBL: Photos of a dead terrorist that will do nothing positive if released. The operative word here is POSITIVE. If there are NO positives and even ONE possible negative, then the vote should be no.
There you go, plain and simple terms that even the most retarded people can understand. I can absolutely support the leaking of AG photos while supporting the withholding of OBL death photos.
Msn wrote:
The Hindenberg explosion and Auschwitz ended in the same consequences: Germans died and then got burned to a crisp.
Hence, the hindenberg and auschwitz are pretty much the same circumstances.
And what if the OBL pics show that our guy's shot him in the back of the head (which I find doubtful), or something equally heinous? All this talk about being an open and honest society goes out the window because it's inconvenient, or we're not deriving "positives" from it, is that it?
The fact is, the President himself draws the correlation through his choice of words:
"In fact, the most direct consequence of releasing them, I believe, would be to further inflame anti-American opinion and to put our troops in danger."--on the Abu-Graib photos and his "change of heart" about releasing them.
""It is important to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence or as a propaganda tool."--on the OBL photos.
He has chosen not to release the OBL photos for essentially the same reason he eventually chose not to release the Abu-Graib photos: It would stir up the crazies. Now if you want to argue that the President, because he (eventually) made the right decision on Abu-Graib and is extending the same thinking to this situation, is blameless, I'll agree with that to an extent. However, there are more than a few people out there on the left nodding seriously and muttering about how we need to keep these photos under wraps that were only more than happy to see those Abu-Graib photos leaked (and who leaked them...there's a question no one ever got around to asking, maybe if Valerie Plame had been in them it would have mattered?).
Your Pal,
Jubber
