So how many people are aware of HR 2346 slip-sliding its way through the scummy halls of congress? For those not 'in the know', it is the $96.7 billion "supplemental" appropriation bill for the ongoing Iraq occupation and the war on Afghans. In Thomas Edsall's summation for HuffPo, it has become a "christmas tree" for at least two other "controversial provisions".

One of these hitchhikers is $108 billion for the satanic IMF per Barrack's G-20 pledge. (please note that this clandestine amt exceeds the amt requested upfront for the "supplemental appropriation" to fund our current military adventures) 

For additional background reading on other behind-closed-door agreements made at the G-2O:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6 fee1d66-51ec-11de-b986-0014 4feabdc0.html?nclick_check= 1

Excuse me for my Cenk-like naivete....but isn't everyone going around saying that we do not have enough money for this social program (health care), or that green project (light-rail). OMFG...the Boehner and I actually agree on something. In the meantime the only thing my people, the "Progressives", seem to be upset about is that the IMF should get rid of the "austerity clause" and give grants instead of loans....Well, isn't that special. I was always told, "charity begins at home" and "if you can't help yourself, how are you going to sustain help to others".

The other "provision" of note is some bullshit being served up by Lieberman in the senate (now we know the type of thing Obama wanted to keep him for). It has cleverly been dubbed the
Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act.
http://lieberman.senate.gov /newsroom/release.cfm?id=31 3229
Of course his boyfriend Lyndsey helped.

As if it is not somewhat self-explanatory...this add-on is designed to extract the president from the sticky-wicket that he has recently found himself in regarding the remaining (est.2000) torture photos. It has been crafted to specifically slap down the Freedom of Information Act request by the American Civil Liberties Union. The argument being that our armed forces would be in danger if they were found out to be engaging in torture. We all know that people do not join the military to be in danger......Well, they certainly did not join up to protect our Freedom....Ummm, Civil Liberties are socialist, right???

Seriously, as for the concerns of the military overseas...
First...it is questionable why we need to be a presence in sooo many foreign countries anyway...maybe now is the time to re-evaluate what is absolutely essential to our national security. (defining 'national security' w/o the word 'corporation')&am p;nb sp;
Second...troop and tourist safety abroad...the argument being that once these photos are viewed by Muslims (and any humane person prone to retribution) overseas that they will want to kill us...Really? Don't they want to kill us now for what we have already done?  Troops also deserve to know what organization they belong to as do recruits have the right to know what they are becoming part of. In regards to tourists, 'humility' and the ugly-American should have gotten acquainted a long time ago.
Third...the hypocrisy quotient...i know its an olde-fashioned concern, but we are exactly hypocrites if we do not release the photos and prosecute the offenders. "RULE OF LAW, RULE OF LAW"...not just when it is convenient. We should want to root out the "bad apples", not protect them. When did Americans become such scared little pussies. 

At the end of WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower upo n witnessing the barbarity in the death camps ordered the German townspeople to participate in the clean-up so that they would be forced to witness the Nazi fiendishness. An effort to distribute photo pamphlets, set up billboards, and film reports were all undertaken in the occupied zones to make the Germans take responsibility. The Germans did not believe...THEY HAD TO BE SHOWN THEIR OWN WICKEDNESS.

At the burial services for victims of the camps Army Chaplain George G. Wood chastised villagers saying;

"Though you claim no knowledge of these acts you are still individually and collectively responsible for these atrocities, for they were committed by a government elected to office by yourselves in 1933 and continued in office by your indifference to organized brutality. It should be the firm resolve of the German people that never again should any leader or party bring them to such moral degradation as is exhibited here.... "

Lets see if the "flying monkey right" can make as light of the acts allegedly portrayed in these photos as they did of the water-torture. We have gotten just a taste of the torture-denial industry that is cranking itself up already. Even with the first-hand accounts, physical remnants, military documentation, and  photographic evidence there are still people today that would deny that the Holocaust ever happened. They promote Hitler like some mis-understood patriarch of the "Aryan race".

If we do subject our deepest (?) darkest (?) secrets to the light of day (daylight being the best disinfectant) and then seriously prosecute the offenders from top to bottom...then just maybe we will have begun to excise the rot and a little of our own national disgrace.

Sad to say, but those torture photos belong to the citizens of the United States and the deeds pictured were done on our behalf. We, collectively, have every right to them. We have every right to remedy whatever they reveal. How dare Obama or anyone else deny us our right to redemption. If the President wants to help hide these crimes then he himself will be guilty as an accessory after the fact as far as I am concerned.