Oh What Do They Know?

by digby

The Iraqis clearly don’t understand the Arab mind:

Harith al Obaidi, the head of the largest Sunni Muslim bloc in Iraq’s parliament and the deputy chairman of the Committee on Human Rights, also shrugged off the Obama administration’s concerns over the photos.”The people who want to express their opinions through violence are already trying their best to do so,” Obaidi said. “Showing them a few pictures wouldn’t make them any more able to do it.”Obaidi called on Obama to release the photos and to hold any perpetrators of abuse publicly accountable. Keeping the pictures secret will only bolster suspicions that the American government is trying to suppress evidence of more widespread abuse, he said.The desire to protect U.S. soldiers should be weighed against the need to show the world that America doesn’t condone such behavior by its troops, Obaidi said.

I don’t understand that. Both president Bush and president Obama have said that America doesn’t torture. Isn’t that enough for these people?

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