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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:50:26 +0000

They’re acting as if by not showing the photos the torture never happened. In reality you have a choice between showing the photos in an attempt to regain some trust and respect for the USA from the rest of the world, or not showing the photos and telling the world nothing changed except a more articulate figurehead, still protecting Bush’s immoral acts.

We’re on an even slower timetable than Bush’s to withdraw from Iraq, increasing troop levels into Afghanistan and supporting Cheney’s suspension of Habeus Corpus for “enemy combatants” (the neat trick is we don’t have to prove they are the enemy, we can just abduct them, wouldn’t want the world thinking the US believes in the rule of law).

When Obama was running I kept telling people on the fence “if nothing else he will re-set the opinion of the rest of the world about us, they’ll be waiting for a sign that we’re not still Bush/Cheney”. Now they have their answer – nothing has changed except lip service to say torture is wrong, just not wrong enough to prosecute anyone or expose the horrors to the light of day.

Given most Americans are still in denial about the real reasons anti-American terrorism exists, I guess Obama’s charm will convince America this is OK, but you can bet in the Madrasas it’s a different story.

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:47:47 +0000

The only thing that matters to cheney is the fact that he could do jail time. He is making every attempt at covering his ass.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:45:33 +0000

Isn’t Cheney’s new stance largely a well-aimed bid for our attention? In the past, we’ve seen Dick and his scary friends prance in and out of the looking glass, sculpting facts and figures to justify some pretty startling misdeeds.

If you can listen to military experts condemn torture as ineffective (other than for recruiting terrorists) and still harbor beliefs that Cheney has kept us safe, well….maybe you’ll be interested in this new bridge he’s selling. The fact that this comes in the first months of a new presidency just makes it bigger news.

Cheney framing the issue in terms of security just doesn’t hold water, in my opinion. We were told over and over to be afraid of “what message we were sending to the enemy” and to unite behind the administration. Of course, back then his message came from some bunker in the basement. Now that we have a new president, he’s kind of chatty…..there’s a brand new Dick in the mirror!

By: Morrie

Morrie — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:43:44 +0000

I’m catholic too, My brother was molested by one of those butt rustlers. It is amazing to me the shit people will accept for this myth the aliens cast into our mists.

Why is anyone still looking at those priest to help them get closer to god? What does the church have to do for their followers to get a clue.

The Church is a fraud.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:32:33 +0000

I have to say that I do not understand, for the life of me, why anyone thinks this is the time to release more torture photos. President Obama is getting ready to give a speech from Egypt to the Muslim world next month, seniors all over the country are going on their senior trips abroad, violence has increased in Iraq, and Pakistan is in turmoil. And we want to release more torture photos? What? Could we pick a worse time to do this?

If he does not release the pix, it will seem to the Muslim world that he is covering for Bush’s war crimes, and is not much more than Bush #3. Obama is walking into a minefield on this trip, and he knows it- he almost has to release the photos, if not to the public, at least to the leaders of the Muslim world.