Al Qaeda Torture Guide
Photo Credit: Right Pundits

US President Barack Obama changed his mind regarding the release of the pictures showing the abuse of prisoners by US soldiers. Only a complete moron would not see that the release of the photos would endanger not only US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan but Christians and Jews throughout the world as well. So it is not surprising that the ACLU is disappointed over the matter ¹.

I really don't understand the ACLU; would any one of them tell his wife, "YES, that dress does make you look fat, my dear"? So why would they purposely antagonize a group of people who go berserk over a Starbucks Logo ²?

And what is the purpose of having the photos released? To continue to bash Bush even though he's no longer in office? To make America even more hated throughout the lands of Islam? The abuses at Abu Ghraib have stopped, so what is the ACLU trying to accomplish if not something anti-American?

Certainly enemy prisoners should not be abused and I'm sure a lot of the Abu Ghraib problems occurred because the guards were not properly trained to deal with the low-life animals they encountered, but almost all the abuses such as standing naked on a box, or having a female laugh at your genitals are chump horrors compared to genuine torture. How offended would we be if we found out that our soldiers who were captured by the enemy were made to pee on a crucifix or were tickled by a burqa-clad female?

As for naked pyramid stacking or being forced to masturbate in front of a female? There are Americans who'd pay good money to be thus abused.

I wish that all American soldiers captured by Muslims would be similarly "abused" as those poor Muslims at Abu Ghraib instead of what would befall them in real life: eye-gouging, bone-crushing, drilling of hands, severing of limbs, blow-torching the skin, suspending from ceiling, electrocuting, and squeezing head in vice. And those are the gentle tortures.