It is courageous that Obama has taken torture as seriously as he has

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

There is always room for improvement, but his picks and gestures thus far are as consistent with taking torture seriously as I could have expected.

It would be the easiest issue to weasel on and there is very little political upside, so it's a good principled thing.

(I do not and have never expected prosecutions so there are no signals of unmet expectations there.)

[Runcible Spoon]

1. I agree

I just hope that he follows through with the Gitmo closing since there's a lot more involved than just issuing the order. If he wants it done, it will be done!

[doc03]

2. It is very courageous to take that stand, if

there is a terrorist attack in his Administration he will pay a heavy price. You know if we have any kind of terrorist attack no matter what the circumstances the MSM and the right wing are going to blame him.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. Yeah, I know it's courageous because it makes me nervous

[Onlooker]

4. It's sad that it's courgeous, but it is courageous

Obama, by trying to return American policies to a civilized level is being courageous, but that just shows how far off course Bush has steered this country. Bush has destroyed the basic human values that Obama hopes to restore.

[Grateful for Hope]

5. It certainly is. n/t

[leftstreet]

6. We are really fucked if it takes courage to follow the law

:-(

[grantcart]

7. Its going to get very messy when it hits the courts

a big fucking mess and no one understands it better than Obama.