ACLU and Obama on Same Page

The ACLU filed a petition under the 2003 “Freedom of Information Act” to have confidential photos of Afghanistan and Iraqi prisoner abuse made public. The ACLU sued our government to force release of these photos. A judge ruled in their favor and, of course, Obama complied.

First of all, there is absolutely no reason why these photos must be released. What do we hope to gain by this? Obama has declared he will not permit extraordinary measures against prisoners of war under any circumstances, so the photos are obviously not needed as a preventative.

Secondly, he has vowed not to punish or prosecute any of those who carried out extreme measures, right? Since the ACLU is acquiring these photos, it is painfully obvious they will work with the “victims” in order to launch civil suits against our government. Obama is cooperating and encouraging lawsuits against those who did their best to keep us safe in “unprecedented” times.

By allowing the release of these photos, Obama is essentially laying down the groundwork for embarrassing and costly lawsuits against all officials involved in extreme interrogations, as well as our own government.

He could have continued to fight the lawsuit by the ACLU and taken it all the way to the Supreme Court.

But we have realized Obama has no shame, and his attempts at strengthening our integrity and credibility will have the opposite effect. Obama claims that our “torture” policies have incited hatred of the US and served as recruiting tools for Al Qaeda. It’s naïve to believe Radical Islamists simply hate America due to our treatment of Radical Islamists while in our custody….obviously there is a more compelling reason why Religious extremists attack Western interests.

I’m wondering what these pictures will do for terrorist recruiting?

His strategy is obviously to continue to besmirch and cloud the image of our previous administration…as if that is even necessary. This way he can always push blame on Bush and continue to deflect blame like a Teflon coated weasel.