http://statenews.com. President Barack Obama’s administration is trying to improve the image of the United States on the international stage, but are still paying for the mistakes of the previous president. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:09:20 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40181 “He could release the photos and pair with them a full explanation of what happened, and why it can’t happen again.” Military troops are just like ordinary folks – there are going to be a few bad apples mixed in with the good guys. Unless President Obama is going to personally tour with every regiment, I doubt he can promise that this will never happen again. Releasing these photos won’t make a lick of a difference. If you truly believe that all other countries on Earth have perfectly behaved militaries, you’re deluding yourself. All this will do is infuriate the Arab nations even more – which is ironic since they have no problem torturing and beheading their captives. If you really have such concerns about the military, sign up yourself. Otherwise let them do their job and accept that sometimes war is not pretty. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:50:29 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40181 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40203 I often don’t agree with President Obama, but he has rightly changed his mind in this case. Releasing the photos will put our troops in harm’s way – and for what? To please liberal journalists and those who wish to smear the job that our troops on the ground. You’ve let your disdain for GWB cloud your judgment. The safety and security of our troops should be the main concern – not settling old political scores. President Obama made the right call. We should applaud him for it. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:49:20 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40203 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40208 “News reports have made it very clear what occurs in these pictures and one could argue that the impact has already been done.” Yes, if one understands absolutely nothing about media, psychology, social psychology, global politics or any of the other relevant fields here, one could indeed argue that. One would be wrong. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:56:39 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40208 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40210 Wow, I love what you had to say. You really make me want to read more, just so I can see what your blogs have to say. I like your friends too, you are all so creative all of you. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:05:35 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40210 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40220 As a photojournalist, I usually vote for publishing both good and bad. Journalism is about truth — and sometimes truth is ugly. But then there are times when my photographs severely harm the subject matter that I’ve photographed, and does NOTHING to aid the cause, the subject, or potentially, anything. Releasing these photographs are not useful to anyone. It will hurt public morale, military morale, and create embarrassment for troops, and the US as a whole to other nations. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:35:02 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40220 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40238 I think that you guys would be right if this wasn’t a international cause. Have you made consideration of what might happen to our soldiers? They are the ones in their country doing what we can’t. If these were to be published don’t you think that there is going to be some kind of backlash? What if our soldiers where to be kidnapped over there and have what was done to the people abu ghaid to them just because of the pictures? Would you people now wish that we didn’t! Should we humiliate the people in those pictures? The criminals already suffered through the crime now everyone gets to see it. The families would be pissed and hateful. If I were them I would want to get revenge. America is suppose to be a country that others look up to at for good examples. Yes, the world should learn from our mistake but should we give them more ideas on how to destroy a persons spirit with a picture book on HOW TO BRAKE PEOPLE AND GET INFORMATION THATS A LIE. I truly feel that people who wish to release the pictures have a macabre fetish. Why does anyone want to see that? Your sick in the head. Its not funny its very hurtful to the people that had to go through that. How do you guys feel when you see the al qaeda movies? Are you not sicked and revengeful? Tell me that those don’t affect you and that it didn’t make a lick of difference that you saw that. ~hi Christina Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:09:20 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/40238