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if the President feels releasing these photos might hurt our troops i trust his judgement.

Dick and Dubya have created vastly more enemies with their horrible belief in torture. People all over the world know what has been done in our name and our status is so much less because of the sadists of the previous administration who thought they would learn something by torturing people to the point of making them insane. If they did not hate us before, they surely do now! How could you blame them? Rape... slamming heads against walls... preventing sleep for weeks... unrelenting stress positions....subjecting them to their greatest phobias, who makes up this stuff and to learn what? Sounds like nothing. Sick, sick sick. Kill me quickly but don't let Cheney torture me, please!

Nataka Picture. Moto-Picture. Show Bwana Bush was right... Obama was wrong..

This is not the time to release photos. We have 2 wars & Pakistan & N.Korea to concern ourselves .It shows that Obama can listen to his generals which is more than I can say for all the Bushies.

I understand the decision to try and keep them sealed, but what I do not understand is lying about the content. The Pentagon and Robert Gibbs both lied yesterday.

Some of the most disgusting photos are already out. Huffington Post has multiple stories with links. Also many of the comments have additional links. Don't look unless your stomach is empty. You may vomit. There are women and children in some of the pictures. They are very bad. I doubt this comment will make it through.

The terrorists already have their recruiting posters from Abu Graib. Not to mention 10,000s killed and terrorised by our troops.

This is an opportunity to purge the shame from America.

With the proposed closing of Club Gitmo, the result has already surfaced in the battlefield:
Fewer "detainees" are being detained for questioning.
They're just being shot in the field.

Nice move, Dems (or should I say "the party of unintended consequences"). You people just keep opening the door into your own noses.

He's all but made his case on the national security preclusion. He'll let the ACLU muck through the legal quagmire, and if he doesn't get the ruling he wants he could simply issue an Executive Order banning release as detrimental to national security, further miring the ACLU in legal limbo until after 2012. We'll never see the photos. We'll never get a full hearing or objective examination of the evidence. We are being played.

I hope the pictures are released. Someone in the Obama administration must have realized that they'll own the fallout now. And we got some 'change we can believe in' on their position on this topic.

Bo might be able to change laws "now" but he's not got so he cannot judge those who came before him. Also he should be held entirely responsible for anu deaths that result from his unwillingness to take tough action on those who intend us harm. Bo might find it difficult to keep an army staffed with his liberal "I won't protect you" attitude.

do we really need to see the photos, we get point, we need to focus on jailing the top dogs, not the low ranks, they only followed orders

yes please show the world so they can get angry and bomb the hell out of us!!!!!! ignorance all of this is, WAR is HELL, what would you prefer?? to serve TEA and CRUMPETS?

We agree that it could pose a potentially dangerous threat to our troops abroad and put them in harm's way.

President Obama promised transparency in his government. He did not promise transparency that may jeopardize the safety of our men and women in uniform.

For all those people who are attacking Obama for reversing himself, think how you would feel if your son or daughter was serving abroard, and these pictures came out. Be grateful that you do not have another obstinate president like Bush, who never wavered, no matter how wrong on an issue.

Obama listened to his generals on the ground and did the right thing by reversing his decision. I am sure Obama is aware of the political damage for being viewed as a flip-flopper. I admire him for putting the safety of our military personnel above himself.

ACLU should pause and consider the harm the release of these pictures may cause our sons and daughters serving abroad, at this time, and withdraw the suit.

More distractions from camp Obama that means he's getting ready to sneak in a huge tax hike while his lap dog media salivates on TV for him over some old pictures.

After reading about what is shown in the photos (rape) I don't think we want those released. I wish people would stop second quessing everything that President Obama does. I believe that he knows a whole lot more about a situation than the rest of us do and he will do what is right. He is a decent and fair man.

God bless you President Obama!

President Flip Flop to the rescue!!

The only reason he isn't releasing these photos is because the U.S. public is firmly against release of the photos. It isn't because of any beliefs of his won.

Move on people!

If the ACLU is involved, I know exactly what position I take.....the opposite one.

Good job Obama (and that is the only time I will say that)

He needs to stand by his decision to not release them. This is just punting and kicking the can down the road. Or, voting "present", if you will.

The commission of crimes by US soldiers needs to be exposed...even if those individuals, acting on the illegal orders of the US president and his henchmen, are not going to be prosecuted.

This can all be easily settled if Obama would actually take a stand for once. He has the power to block the release. If he doesn't want them blocked, then he should say so.

He is a coward.

The ACLU may cry "mockery" but if the Freedom of Information act has any teeth and I believe it does – the ACLU will be able to have all those photos to chew on before long. Brilliant legal professor Obama may not want the unseemly appearance of being an attack dog against the former potentially criminal administration, and by holding back he can maintain an, "I tried to stop it" stance and yet allow the High Court and justice to prevail with the ACLU taking the hit for being a single minded foe of the Republican agenda.

Guess the libs and Code Pink freaks ain't gonna be too happy about this

I know that a lot of the bloggers will be saying transparency... THINK, understandably, our soldiers could be in danger, is our soldiers would be captured, they could torture them or maybe killed. I think that after the war, yeah, but not now.
Remember what everyone has been saying that Obama is making our country less safe, if they are released what could happen, our country would really be vulnerable to another attack.

Obama has a lot on his plate, Hurricanes, 2 wars, economy, jobs, threats by North Korea and Iran. Israel and the Palestinians, the Middle East and Israel. How would you like to be President at this time.

"Wait!! I know!! Let's get these other guys to tell us we HAVE to release them..!! Yeah.. that's the ticket!!!"

ACLU. They don't care about the men and women defending their rights. All they care about is lining their own pockets. They rather see an American service memeber killed by terriorist, then keep the already explosive photo a secret.

What purpose will get out of seeing photos that have been seen on Iraq? and we all know what happen, when those photos were released.

ALCU only cares about themseleves. Eff the country....is what their saying

Mirrors, mirrors on the wall who is the greatest "CZAR" of them all ?
and the answer is: Obama of course the savior of all....puting down
country first prioity...perhaps he will invite the Terrorists to the WH tea party...Next in Egypt he will pay tribute saying: :viva to them and down with the USA" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ACLU needs to MOVE ON!!!

Everyone already knows what happened in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq... NO NEED TO INCITE...
I do believe that these pictures will only give Al Qaeda more substance to use for recruiting and inspiring Muslims to join their maligned and wicked cause.

I simply cannot understand why the ACLU is hell bent on putting soldiers lives in jeopardy. So okay, libs... looks like the choice comes down to what the ACLU wants and what Obama and his advisors want. What do you choose?

Even the ACLU says: "it "makes a mockery" of Obama's campaign promise of greater transparency"

Add this to the list of broken promises. A number of web sites are now tracking his kept and broken promises, since Umbama and his misty eyed supporters have an astoundingly short memory.

I know there will some comments here like "what broken promises, where?" Spend about 3 more brain cells and 5 more seconds and look for yourself.

It's getting warmer by the day. Who do you think will roll first – Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzalez. ? The sweat puddles are getting larger.

I've read that some fo the pictures shows sexual abuse of children. If that's so, they definitely shouldn't show them. That would be a disaster for our troops right now.

No matter how this goes down... it's bad for the country.

You release them it's bad... you don't it's bad...

Double edged sword for sure

Why is Obama kicking this can down the road, when many lawyers think he will be ordered to release the photos no matter what the military or some ragtag jihadists think of them. This case is a profile in weakness and weaselling by The One.

I knew it wouldn't be long until the very liberals who helped elect Obama would turn on them.

It's quite clear that the ACLU's main objective is to destroy this country in whatever way they can.

I really do not see what the release of these photos will accomplish. It will further support the worlds view of do as I say, not as I do
mentallity of the previous administration.
The majority of American people do not support torture and these
pictures will be disturbing for everyone. What our leaders allowed to happen is against the Geneva Convention and honor, and we do
not need to expose further proof of our wrong doings.
We are striving to bring our United States of America back to the status we once had and do not need more of the past to drag us
down.

Hey – let's ask Sotomayer what SHE would recommend!!

Should Obama release the photos or not, Ms Sotomayer??

Would these photos be any better or worse than a Freddie Kruger movie? Released or unreleased, these photos will not vary the opinions of those against whom we fight eiterh physically or politically

Don't ya think that our enemies are already doing the maximum to harm us anyway?

I'm a democrat, but I support the President's decision not wanting these photos released. Releasing those photos will incite anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and put our troops in danger. I'm all for transparancy too, but not at the risk of our men and women in harm's way. DO NOT RELEASE ANY PHOTOS. As if the photos that we've already seen aren't bad enough. It's a despicable thing to see and I can see how that can be used to the enemies advantage to kill our troops and disrupt the peace process in the entire region.

great.

We believe that the photos and ALL documents relating to Bush & DICK sanctioned torture should be released. So that we, the People, can see for ourselves what horrors have been done in our name!

And for those who will say "torture saved us from another attack!"

I say....... statistics show that the chances of an American dying in a terrorist attack is....... (drumroll)...... ONE...... in 9.3 million!

However, every day...... every day........ 2,500 Americans die of heart disease!

Obama, on this issue, is 100% correct. When will the ACLU and NYT start putting our country first instead of their own liberal agenda?