From White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs’s press briefing today:
Q … Is this something that is being considered, by the president, for reversal? Or is this the policy that will go forward? And does he have any anxiety about the potential consequences of the release of these photographs?
MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously the president has great concern about any impact that pictures of potential detainee abuse, in the past, could have on the present-day service members that are protecting our freedom either in Iraq, Afghanistan or throughout the world. That’s something the president is very cognizant of. And we are working to — we are working currently to figure out what the process is, moving forward.
Q Does that mean the decision could be reversed?
MR. GIBBS: I don’t want to get into that right now.
Q So you can’t commit either way.
MR. GIBBS: I’m not going to add much to that right now.
This sounds to me as if the president is getting ready to reverse the decision of his Justice Department. I expect him to announce, perhaps citing his discussions today with General Odierno and Ambassador Chris Hill, that he’s decided it would be damaging to our soldiers and the nation to release these photos.
Two cheers for Obama is he does, in the end, refuse to feed the anti-American, defeatist left which wants the pictures merely to gin up hatred of America overseas. Every picture is worth 1,000 words – but each one of the words is a lie. Pictures are mostly worthless – and pictures of alleged abuse are more worthless than most. All these pictures would do is provide “proof” to our enemies (foreign and domestic) that we are evil and in need of destruction – fanning the flames of hatred and, in the end, causing people to be killed. We’re at war, and it isn’t time to provide our enemies with a handy club to beat us with – especially as there is no way to tell if any particular picture of “abuse” is really something resulting from an American violation of law, though all of them would be used as if they were just that.
And, now, my liberal friends – when will you call for Obama’s impeachment, if he does his duty as Commander in Chief and refuses to release the photos?
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