Some lawmakers are questioning the wisdom of releasing hundreds of photos potentially showing U.S. military personnel abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon. "If we release the pictures, the odds are that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups will then use our pictures to recruit people to come into the war against us," Sen. Joe Lieberman. I-Conn., told FOX News.

The Pentagon plans to release the photos by May 28 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The move comes after the Justice Department lost its latest round in federal court and concluded that any further appeal probably would be fruitless.But critics of the move say it will become a sequel to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq, which caused an international backlash against the U.S., with photos in 2004 of grinning U.S. soldiers posing with detainees, some naked, being held on leashes or in painful positions.

How hard is it to make the connection with the release of the Abu Ghraib photos and the rise in violence in Iraq, and what will happen if these photos are released? Why is there a judge who has ruled in favor of terrorists and their supporters (The ACLU) and not in the favor of national security? Why doesn't our military supporting President (self proclaimed) issue an executive order blocking the release of these images? What is there to be gained by releasing these images? If the Pentagon has not found any violation of it's rules then why do they have to disclose these images to the ACLU of all people? Is the government now actively with the help of the ACLU recruiting for the Taliban and Al Qaeda?

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