Six of one, half a dozen of another

It's been a sad week.

This is the week that President Obama has gone back to the Bush Doctrine.

If the pictures of the detainees that he is now wanting to block are no worse than those we've known from Abu Greib we've lived through that. The whole world has.
But if we say they're no worse and yet we say they need to be blocked it makes you wonder if they are indeed worse, much worse than those we saw from Abu Greib.
That wondering that little bit of doubt is what will inflame the imagination of the world.

Senator Obama ran in part on a pledge to not only shut down Guantanamo but to do away with the military tribunals that in effect were not much better than kangaroo courts. He didn't say that they could be made better by fine tuning them or by giving the detainees a few more rights. He said the tribunals needed to be done away with.

When President Obama said he was going to release the photos there was speculation that the release might hinder his efforts urging Congress not to open a "truth commission" to investigate alleged prisoner abuse and force former Bush administration officials to testify and account for their actions and advice.

Leon Panetta the new CIA director says it is against the CIA's values to mislead the Congress. If they tortured people (enhanced techniques) what values?

Certainly not Christian values.

I didn't vote for Mr. Bush in 2000. I didn't vote for Mr. Bush in 2004.
I didn't think I voted for President Bush in 2008.

Perhaps I was mistaken.

Six of one, half a dozen of another.