in the first place to release those photos? I thought it was Obama's idea, then he thought better of it. If that is the case, this CNN article to me is sickening. It praises Obama for not releasing them

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/21/wise.photos/index.html

/ soapbox

5/21/2009 11:37:41 PM

except this isn't soap box

5/21/2009 11:38:58 PM

/ soapbox

5/21/2009 11:39:12 PM

i guess a courts? iirc the aclu had some court case to get them...i was glad obama listened to gates

5/21/2009 11:39:33 PM

^thats why I didnt want to call out Obama outright. I wasnt sure if it was initially his idea to release them. I knew the ACLU was whining about them.

5/21/2009 11:41:13 PM

they are butthurt now cause obama isn't going to release them...wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...groups like them do more harm than good for the democratic party imo

5/21/2009 11:49:40 PM

plz to PM if you've got the pics

kkthx

5/22/2009 12:19:25 AM

How would it have been Obama's idea?

He was a junior senator when the Abu Ghraib pics came out.

5/22/2009 1:09:55 AM

^These are probably new, as yet unreleased pictures?

5/22/2009 7:36:30 AM

yes, I'm speaking of the new pictures to come out. You know, the ones that have been making the headlines for the past 2 weeks.

5/22/2009 11:57:33 AM

They should not be released.

5/22/2009 12:52:02 PM

Release them.

If the US military is worried about the lives of its soldiers, it shouldn't be putting themselves in this position in the first place through torture and inhumane treatment - or at the very least least torture and then photographing it.

"If a new set of photos were to be released, we would be punishing the thousands of brave and innocent troops for the crimes of a few."

Yes, agreed. But at the same time it seems as if we aren't even apologizing for the actions of those few. Transparency should be the name of the game if we want to separate ourselves from the previous regime. In an ideal world, this type of treatment wouldn't go on (we don't live in an ideal world). In a less-than-ideal world we would admit our faults and apologize for them. In the world of the previous administration we would DENY-DENY-DENY.

/ And that concludes the most unpopular opinion on the board /

5/22/2009 4:21:44 PM