Smartest Guys In The Room producer Alex Gibney has written a blog post urging President Obama to release detainee photos. Gibney’s central thesis seems to be that the photos should be released so President Bush can be prosecuted for war crimes:
Gen. Taguba has argued for prosecuting Bush officials for war crimes. But to prosecute crimes, one must have evidence.
While I’d be thrilled to discuss Enron with Mr. Gibney, I find his hackneyed viewpoints of the war in Iraq to be mere pablum, the same quality of pap that Nancy Pelosi utters every day and thus not truly worthy of comment. His viewpoint, demonstrated clearly in the final paragraph, is that the United States committed war crimes. Ostensibly this includes “torture”, which, as I wrote about earlier this week is not really torture at all. This reminds me of those horrible pictures we saw after the end of World War Two. The horror of those pictures … the naked, starved men, the shallow graves of children’s bones… Those images show what war crimes truly are. And yes, I believe they had to find the light of day. We had to see the pictures in order to know. Likewise, we showed the pictures of Uday and Qusay after their American experience. I don’t care if Obama releases the pictures. I expect they will be more of the Abu Graihb pictures, which do not hurt me at all. We can debate the appropriateness of naked pyramids, but we can not say they demonstrate the dark heart of evil.
Here’s a picture of Buchenwald Concentration Camp:
And here is the picture of a terrorist with panties on his head:
And the horrors of a man standing on a box:
The primary difference between these photos is that in the first one, mass deaths took place. We can all agree that is a war crime. In the last two, those two terrorists are still very much alive. You’re welcome.
