I thought it was ok tto supress the pictures...

[Traveling_Home]

when the MSM largely stopped showing the videos and pictures of people leaping off the WTC during the 9-11 attacks. We all knew it happened.

Continuously showing them was just inflaming hatred against the innocent and guilty alike.

Was I wrong?

The controversies about the latest pics of prisoner abuse - well - My President says they will inflame Islamic anger at our Troops - innocent and guilty alike.

Clear this up for me will ya folk? My minds a little ajar at all this.....stuff

[applegrove]

1. I heard a guy being interviewed on a CBC radio show. He was a former interrogator.

He said that the first set of photos that were published inspired many people to join the insurgency. That is the data that is out there. Easier for Obama to take a hit at home than for another insurgency to break out. I personally think he made the right choice.

[Hissyspit]

2. I've never seen any of the video images of the people leaping from the buildings.

They were censored before I ever got to see them.

Appeal to "decorum" and "taste" was the excuse used to keep the American people from seeing the cost of the war in Iraq for several years.

[Uzybone]

4. they played them a lot the first week or two

you might not have been watching TV at the time. Most people saw the video.

[Hissyspit]

7. I did nothing but watch TV that week. They were censoring with the first few hours.

I have worked as an artist, a newspaper reporter, and scholar and the lessons of my life have taught me that censorship is almost always applied for ulterior motives and I have fought against it all my life.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. I had one question -

What good will making these photos public do?

There wasn't any acceptable answer, and since I think there's a world of porn out there that is currently satisfying the twisted needs of the GOPigs, I say the decision to not make them public is the right one.

There is transparency and then there is catering to salacious needs. I am already convinced that these photos were the whack-off material for the likes of Yoo, Bybee, Addington, Cheney, and the other thugs. If necessary, they can be introduced as evidence at trial, but, until then, no.

Throwing gasoline on an open fire isn't a good idea. We all know what happened. I don't need to see it, and, yes, I agree that those photos would probably just make people hate America more.......................

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Yeah, but the GOP-controlled media also doesn't like showing Janet Jackson's breastises.

But, have no problem showing graphic violence.

So, there's that.

[pacalo]

6. Josh Marshall has a question for you to answer, Traveling_Home...

"If we need to keep evidence of torture, like photographs, secret, to protect our troops, doesn't that suggest that torture isn't a great way to keep them or us safe?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5656693

[Forkboy]

8. Obama seems to be trying to have it both ways.

The other day he said the photos were not "particularly sensational", yet clearly they're sensational enough for him to use it as justification for not releasing them.

I like Obama a lot, but this kind of parsing is one thing I expected and feared.