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Unlike the rabid Bush haters I can agree with President Obama on a few things, like not releasing these photos and picking the Tarheels to win the NCAA tourney. Good job telling the ACLU where to stick it Mr. Obama. Watch for the resultant lawsuits, those people don't give up easily.

I commended Obama on that decision, but now it seems I was a bit premature. He only decided to "delay" the release of the photos, to let the courts decide.

He could, and should, issue an executive order shielding the photos from disclosure by the Freedom of Information Act. He has the power to do that, and he should do that.

What will he do if the courts say that the photos should be released? Will he issue the executive order then? Why not issue the EO now, and save the expense of court proceedings? What good reason can there be for not doing so?

The only reason I can think of is a political one. By taking a principled stand and supporting our soldiers and intelligence people, he will anger the moonbats of the left, his main constituency. So Barack Obama has, yet again, voted "present'. Leadership, my a$$.

Obama is making but a "token" objection to the release of the photos. He supports the release but knows it's politically savvy to appear to oppose it.
That way, when they do come out he can publicly shake his head in dismay while he privately snickers at having made yet another attack on conservatives.
Ignore what Obama says and watch what he does.

I will also agree with Obama for not releasing the photos.

What is interesting is how many times Obama has flip-floped on so many issues since he won the election. Don't get me wrong, I glad he has flip on many of these issues. It just goes to show Bush was doing many of the right things after all and the democRATs are finding out it isn't as easy to be the party in charge as they thought it was.

I'm sure the Bush bashers will never admit Obama is doing anything remotely the way Bush did things. Of course they have always had trouble admitting the truth.

Gotta get a kick out of this guy! If you don't agree with me, then you "hate America". My kids used to argue that way. . . when they were 4 years old.

"It just goes to show Bush was doing many of the right things after all..."
Gosh -- too bad term limits prevented another four years of utopian bliss. Think of the great shape we'd be in if we'd only been able to keep the good times rolling.

Thanks -- I needed a laugh today.

"What is interesting is how many times Obama has flip-floped on so many issues since he won the election"

He doesn't flip-flop. In all of his stump speeches he made clear to anyone who actually paid attention that is a semi-realist centrist, no more, no less. And so far he has been.... a semi-realist centrist. I supported Edwards and then Hilldawg because they were more liberal but I do give props to Obama for actually beeing what he says he was.

Why not release the photos? We already have tons from Guantanomo, Abu Ghriab and other sites already out in the public. A few more ain't gonna hurt. What will the people in Iraq and Afghanistan do, try to kill us? Not likely. When you don't have electricity more than 2 hours a day and a falling bomb kills one of your family members every couple weeks, they have more pressing problems.

I also have two rules of thumb for the conservatives here:

1. If you fight against the Red Cross, Medicis Sans Frontieres, Reporters without Borders you are WRONG.

2. If you fight against the ACLU, you are WRONG. There is a reason they usually win.

Agreed; any harm from the photos is likely already done.

It does have the potential to reinflame passions, which is why is probably should stay classified--until al-Queda is done.

Still, the courts could be granted limited access for use in prosecutions against the perpetrators.

"...until al-Queda is done."

It is done. Who we are fighting now are the resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and Iraq is more-or-less peaceful, with only a few rogue groups left. Al-Qaeda was never liked by Muslims and they never were supported all that much, even by the Taliban. We basically wiped them out years ago. All they can do is very occasionally release a video of Osama.

The groups we fight now are anti-governmental forces fighting for control of the land, not religious war.

"That way, when they do come out he can publicly shake his head in dismay while he privately snickers at having made yet another attack on conservatives."

So, let me see if I've got this straight: When the photographs are inevitably made public as a result of the fact that America is (despite all the efforts of the last 30 years to change this) a free country that values justice and the rule of law, that somehow becomes the President's "attack on conservatives." (?!)

Little paranoid, are we? Good -- you reap what you sow.

Slaan says" I also have two rules of thumb for the conservatives here:

1. If you fight against the Red Cross, Medicis Sans Frontieres, Reporters without Borders you are WRONG.

2. If you fight against the ACLU, you are WRONG. There is a reason they usually win."

Nice to have more infallible people around than God and the Pope. That gives us a longer list of issues we don't have to think about.
A friend of mine knows a soldier just back from Iraq who paints a different picture. Every day Iraqis begged him not to leave, and said they have electricity all the time now and nobody comes to drag their relatives away in the night, never to be seen again. The much-maligned Bush policy looks better in the eyes of its Iraqi beneficiaries than in the media; big surprise there. So when were you last in Iraq, or spoke to anyone who actually knows what's going on over there, O Slaan the Inerrant?