Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Obama Sees the Light on Detainee Photos

I think someone finally sat him down and told him that releasing these photos to "Get Bush" will "Get Obama" instead.

“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,” said a White House official who asked not to be named.

Now this is a flip-flop I can believe in. He is finally understanding that his job as Commander and Chief is to protect the lives of US Servicemen in a warzone. That means he can't just let the ACLU publicize photos that will get even more Islamic crazies to sign up to fight our troops for the sake of "transparancy."

The ACLU doesn't have to worry about some Sudanese kid firing an RPG at them because he saw some internet photos made him so enraged that he wanted to kill some US soldiers. Transparency is all fine and good until the bullets start to fly.

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