Obama is going against the ACLU and says he is not going to release dirtbag photos during their stay in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo.
Is it even within the realm of possibility that the man actually has limits or morals or sound judgement...
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...Nope. There is more to it somehow
May 13, 2009
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Andrew33 103p · 829 weeks ago
1. Military support-Obama has inherited two wars that were in most peoples' eyes perceived to be won. If Obama allows those pics to be published, he will lose total support of the military and there will be Corporals running Iraq and Afganistan rather than Generals and Admirals. Releasing those pics would inflame the Arab world and incite new insurgencies where they have been greatly reduced up until now. Losing those wars now would leave Obama much like L.B.J. spending all of his time explaining our soldiers are getting killed as we are considering letting terrorists go. He simply can't afford to lose wars that were won when he took office.
2. Obama is an idealogue and does not want to go into the upcoming "heath care" and "lesbian supreme court justice" battles with the American people already furious because of these pictures. Dick Cheney has already been a rather large thorn in Obama's side by discussing the fact that we are making ourselves vulnerable to terrorism by tying the hands of the military. Obama does not want to get into that debate because he will lose all credibility once a bomb goes off somewhere in America.
These are the reasons why I believe Obama went against the ACLU. Basically he has no more "political capitol" to spend on this one. Obama much like Clinton has his thumb up trying to feel the political winds which are no longer at his back like they were a few months ago.
Andrew33 103p · 828 weeks ago