God dammit, Barry, what is wrong with you?
“Last week, the president met with his legal team and told them that he did not feel comfortable with the release of the [Defense Department] photos because he believes their release would endanger our troops, and because he believes that the national security implications of such a release have not been fully presented to the court,” the official said.
“At the end of that meeting, the president directed his counsel to object to the immediate release of the photos on those grounds. … [Obama] strongly believes that the release of these photos, particularly at this time, would only serve the purpose of inflaming the theaters of war, jeopardizing U.S. forces, and making our job more difficult in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Shut up. Tough shit. If these people didn’t want to harm our efforts, they shouldn’t have done it.
I’m totally agree that we should not release the photos — on one condition: all photographic evidence of concentration camp victims from WWII must immediately be destroyed forever. After all, it’s over, right? All those old WWII pictures do is wind people up. [Fe]