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Obama to block detainee abuse photos

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BREAKING: The White House will object to the release of detainee abuse photos, an administration official says, due to concerns about national security.
From the official: "Last week, the President met with his legal team and told them that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the DOD photos because he believes their release would endanger our troops, and because he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court.
"At the end of that meeting, the President directed his counsel to object to the immediate release of the photos on those grounds.

"Yesterday, during a meeting at the White House, the President raised the issue of these photos with General Odierno and told him of his decision to argue against this release."

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"Through his actions from the first days of his administration, the President has made it clear that the United States will hold itself and all the men and women who serve our country to the highest standards of conduct.

"The President would be the last to excuse the actions depicted in these photos. That is why the Department of Defense investigated these cases, and why individuals have been punished through prison sentences, discharges, and a range of other punitive measures. But the President strongly believes that the release of these photos, particularly at this time, would only serve the purpose of inflaming the theaters of war, jeopardizing US forces, and making our job more difficult in places like Iraq and Afghanistan."
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This may be one in a million post but when the dip pulls his head out of his ass...even if for only a brief spate of fresh air . I can agree with him.


Other then serving as the Far Lefts porn the release of such things while at war only aids the enemy.
 
I hope that's his reasoning and if so I applaud it. If it's because the photo's fail to meet the political needs of the current Dem Witch hunts, well...
 
You can't blame the guy. After all, he still has to be president for several more years. Releasing those photos would make everything harder.
 
Yes visual dipictions have a tendency to provoke anger in folks, and needless to say this may put or men and women in uniform in harms way. However, i dont see Obama being able to prevent the release for to long, he might be able to delay it but that only puts off the issue.
 
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This may be one in a million post but when the dip pulls his head out of his ass...even if for only a brief spate of fresh air . I can agree with him.


Other then serving as the Far Lefts porn the release of such things while at war only aids the enemy.

Even when you compliment something Obama does, you do it in an unclassy way. You're pathetic.
 
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This may be one in a million post but when the dip pulls his head out of his ass...even if for only a brief spate of fresh air . I can agree with him.


Other then serving as the Far Lefts porn the release of such things while at war only aids the enemy.

I do not think I have ever met some one say angry with the way things are run. Even in agreement with something, instead of being thankful you are hostile.

Why do you hate America so much?
 
I do not think I have ever met some one say angry with the way things are run. Even in agreement with something, instead of being thankful you are hostile.

Why do you hate America so much?

I think we should be laughing over his anger. Life must suck for him, huh? ;)
 
I thanked the trolls.

Now that they feel special maybe they can either deal with the subject of the thread or leave the thread.
 
You can't blame the guy. After all, he still has to be president for several more years. Releasing those photos would make everything harder.

I think that is the central concern in this decision. Not the harm the photos will cause to the war effort, soldiers, etc but the harm it would cause him. ON every issue Obama tends to "decide" based on the perception it will leave of him.


I hope that's his reasoning and if so I applaud it. If it's because the photo's fail to meet the political needs of the current Dem Witch hunts, well...

I'm more inclined towards it being self preservation. But regardless of the reason its the right move.
 
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I do not think I have ever met some one say angry with the way things are run. Even in agreement with something, instead of being thankful you are hostile.

Why do you hate America so much?

Is questioning the motive of the pResident now called anti-American? Were the people that questioned Bush also anti-American?
 
Is questioning the motive of the pResident now called anti-American? Were the people that questioned Bush also anti-American?

That's what we were called. Yes.
 
No.1: What do these pics show that we have not already seen and published on the cover of magazines?

No.2: If we already released some why not others?

No.3: Is this a trick by Obama suggesting that this never happens under his watch?

No.4: Why did the liberals INSIST on publishing pictures like these under Bush?
 
Moderator's Warning:
This isn't the basement. Please take your joking and kidding about how much like must "suck" for someone, while not even bothering to address the topic, to the basement where that kind of thing belongs.
 
No.1: What do these pics show that we have not already seen and published on the cover of magazines?

Cheney holding a detainee down.

Rumsfeld pouring the water on the detainee's head.

:2wave:
 
BO will release those photos. And he will do it with pleasure.

He is playing a political game at the moment. What he does, he does to benefit himself.
 
Dumb Question, for all those falling over to applaud Obama, and the real reason for my skeptisism of this... report.

Obama and Co. promised to release this stuff. The People in the know went "Hey woah, bad idea boss, really, national security, troop security and really... not a good idea."

For weeks "These pictures will come out" we heard. Now, after the WH takes a look at them, they decide to listen to the Military and others about how bad an idea it is?


Either the pictures show things that even they have to go "woah, yeah... can't really release this". OR... they aren't the useful tools for the political games.

You decide what you want, but the question remains... what was it about seeing them that changed their minds?

I distrust Obama, I think his judgment is suspect and his motives purly political, thus I draw a different conclusion then those that admire him. But that doesn't change the fact of the timing.
 
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This may be one in a million post but when the dip pulls his head out of his ass...even if for only a brief spate of fresh air . I can agree with him.


Other then serving as the Far Lefts porn the release of such things while at war only aids the enemy.

The signature I created before Obama was elected says it all.

But then, the notion that Obama won't flip flop on this issue as he has done on many others requires willful denial in my opinion. :rofl
 
The President would be the last to excuse the actions depicted in these photos. That is why the Department of Defense investigated these cases, and why individuals have been punished through prison sentences, discharges, and a range of other punitive measures. But the President strongly believes that the release of these photos, particularly at this time, would only serve the purpose of inflaming the theaters of war, jeopardizing US forces, and making our job more difficult in places like Iraq and Afghanistan

Block photos?
Why? What BS.
Can it really be worse than Abu Ghraib?

I assume releasing photos showing soldiers abusing detainees would be bad seeing he'll be in a majority Muslim country next month .... :/

It'll come out eventually ...
 
You can't blame the guy. After all, he still has to be president for several more years. Releasing those photos would make everything harder.

Who's blaming him? We just find his partisan BS rhetoric and attempts so far to illustrate how easy it was to be a Community Organizer, but being President is now a whole new world for him.

But alas, it is too late for this new reverse course; the courts have ordered it thanks to the political posturing of the American Liberal Civil Liberties Union and Liberals who continue to farcically believe that this hurts Republicans and Bush, and whose only purpose is to continue the gradual destruction of the USA and conversion of it to the United Community Organization of the States.

After all, anyone with even 1/2 a brain has to ask themselves; what is the purpose to be gained by making these photos public? What possible purpose is there to making the legal justifications for "enhanced interrogation" methods?

It is only unclear to those who continue to lie, distort the facts or wallow in willful denial.
 
TD, it's not the UCOS, it's the USSA.

United Socialst States of America.

They have tradition to follow after all.
 
I hope that's his reasoning and if so I applaud it. If it's because the photo's fail to meet the political needs of the current Dem Witch hunts, well...
Frankly, I really don't care what his reasoning is. He arrived at the right conclusion and took the right action. The Anti-Republicans in Congress may not like it, but their witch hunts are an abomination and must be stopped, period.
 
Is questioning the motive of the pResident now called anti-American? Were the people that questioned Bush also anti-American?

Once again the argument that people who questioned Bush were labeled anti-American is farcical; they were labeled anti-American when the claimed that the war was based on a lie, the troops were torturing their prisoners and that our troops had already lost the war while our fine young men and women in the Military were fighting and at risk fighting a war that BOTH Democrats and Republicans voted to send them into.

I find it fascinating that ANYONE thinks that by parroting the rhetoric of the enemies trying to kill our troops makes them safe or could be considered anything less than anti-American.

But alas, it wasn't JUST Americans whose lives were put at risk by all this offensive partisan posturing for purely political purposes; it was also the other 34 coalition partners that went in with us.

I am still fascinated when Liberals who ranted and railed about the failure of our efforts in Iraq even in the face of successes, whine when they are correctly labeled as being anti-American; now whine and rant when those from the OTHER political perspective correctly criticize the lies and distortions that represent the current administration.

Do Liberals actually think that it is ONLY their right to criticize Republicans? How trite and hypocritical.

My comment to those who are spending so much time whining about the efforts of the OTHER side exposing the OBVIOUS idiocy that now infests all facets of our Government except the Judicial branch so far need to just SUCK it UP and get used to it; it looks patently pathetic to have set the bar so low, then complain about the new low standard they set during Bush’s Presidency don't you think?

After all, we pretty much expect perfection now from our Government after railing about how imperfect it was under Bush; anything less is unexplainable now that we have the smartest Liberals on earth guiding our economy and foreign policy right?
:rofl
 
Frankly, I really don't care what his reasoning is. He arrived at the right conclusion and took the right action. The Anti-Republicans in Congress may not like it, but their witch hunts are an abomination and must be stopped, period.

Do you think he has actually done this; stopped the eventual release of these photos? Right now, I believe that this is the NEW revised REALITY advice he is getting and have only heard that they are re-assessing what to do.

The ONLY recourse here is of course to refuse the order and force it all the way to the Supreme Court of course. This will provide perhaps one more year of respite.

But the REAL story is the asinine legal logic of the Jurist who made the decision to override the lower court and side with the ALCLU.
 
POLITICO 44: Whiteboard Archives


This may be one in a million post but when the dip pulls his head out of his ass...even if for only a brief spate of fresh air . I can agree with him.


Other then serving as the Far Lefts porn the release of such things while at war only aids the enemy.

Moderator's Warning:
OP lacks a source that meets breaking news criteria.
Here's one:
President Obama moves to block release of detainee abuse photos

President Obama reversed course Wednesday and decided against voluntarily releasing photos of suspected terrorists who were abused while in military custody.

The American Civil Liberties Union requested the photos in 2003 under the Freedom of Information Act. A federal court will now decide whether they will be released.

A federal judge has ruled the pictures must be released by the end of May. With Obama's intervention, the release will be delayed - and could be scrapped if the judge agrees with Obama's new position.
 
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