Posted on 01/24/2009 2:14:50 AM PST by JohnHuang2
President Obama’s new executive orders on closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and limiting the permissible methods for interrogating terrorist detainees are the legal equivalent of a running back’s head fake: they mislead, and only the runner’s next move reveals his intent.
So far, the White House's intentions aren't clear. One member who attended the pre-release White House briefing on the executive orders characterized the orders as confusing. On the closing of the Guantanamo Bay facility, he said the White House was more confused than the members being briefed.
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Obama to Mohammad: Follow our example. Pretty please???
Sooooo, no sooner does Hussein get sworn in (after a do-over, this time with a Teleprompter) than his handlers have him focus on the things that really matter: Phoning the Palestinians and making life easier for captured terrorists.
Thumbing through his checklist of executive orders that'll make America safe . . . Close Gitmo? Check. Close overseas CIA detention sites? Check. End odious practice of treating terror "suspects" as terror "suspects"? Check. Suspend war crimes trials? Check. Containers of deodorant and spacious rooms at Waldorf-Astoria for detainees? Check, check.
Obama's executive orders mark a 'sharp policy shift,' as the media delicately put it, a clean break from Bush's policies, replacing them with losing the war. Feel safer now? When Hussein promised to keep us safe, just who exactly did he mean by "us"?
One of the terror "suspects" being held at Gitmo is Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, who happens to be the chap who masterminded the 9/11 attacks. But even he thinks Obama is going too far! Informed that his trial was suspended because Obama wasn't sure he really did it, Khalid waxed philosophical: "DUDE, I DID DO IT! HELLO? I TOTALLY PLOTTED 9/11!!"
Liberals are convinced the real mastermind behind 9/11 was Halliburton, but there's no proof Khalid ever worked for Halliburton, so ya just never know. We must review his case! We could have the wrong guy.
As widely respected national security expert William Ayers once remarked: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird. It's a great country!"
Michael Dukakis furloughed Willie Horton. Odimbulb wants to furlough al-Qaeda and the Taliban. It's part of his bold Islamic outreach.
Showing that priorities under "your new government" are in the right place, Obama's executive orders say that anyone now in custody for blowing up innocent people -- or, as the New York Times would put it, for "suspicion" of being a "militant" -- can expect to be treated as a POW. 'Militants', who have been trained to withstand Army Field Manual techniques, will be questioned using Army Field Manual techniques. As for getting vital information from detainees to save lives, don't worry -- Islamic fanatics will crack under the nicer treatment!
Obama's executive orders mean that slaughtering 3,000 civilians -- even on U.S. soil -- isn't enough to get you treated as an unlawful combatant or war criminal. Which means that nothing short of being Dick Cheney or Bushitler would. By upgrading these Muslim peace-loving little darlings to POW status (treatment-wise), your new government-in-training-wheels gets to pretend that these unlawful combatants are really honorable combatants -- regular soldiers. Al-Qaeda "fighters" aren't soldiers in an army, don't wear uniforms, don't rumble around in tanks, don't owe allegiance to any country, aren't committed to any treaty -- other than that, they're regular soldiers.
Before the Supremes got busy finding the "right" to jihad as fundamental, even the plain text of the Geneva Conventions -- which liberals love to cite as the reason they coddle terrorists -- would rule out Osama and his chums getting POW treatment. If you're al-Qaeda, to get coverage under Geneva as written, the head-hacking, disemboweling, hijacking, kidnapping and pizzeria-bombing would have to go, which means al-Qaeda would have to restructure its fundamental business practices. But that would mean al-Qaeda ceasing to be al-Qaeda. The beloved Geneva Conventions also figure that detainees have really surrendered, but with all the Islamo-butt-kissing mush from president pantywaist this week, any Pashtun goat herder will tell you it's now the fully emasculated Great Satan doing the surrendering.
And with Hopeyland descending into full-on give-Neville-Changeberlain-a-chance, expect a torrent of the following: The case of Said Ali-Shihri, who was formerly held at the Guantanamo vacation club, but was released to the Saudis in 2007. No sooner had the chap passed through the Saudi rehab program for "former" jihadists than the recovering al-Qaedaholic was back at it again, bombing the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital last September. He's now emerged as deputy honcho of al-Qaeda's Yemeni branch.
But this case isn't some isolated snafuroo, with a good chunk of ex-Gitmo jailbirds, in Gitmo for terrorism, shockingly returning to terrorism. With Barack Obarney Fife's announced catch-and-release approach to these poor, misunderstood little Mother Teresas, gird your loins because ex-Gitmo prisoner '372' was just the warm-up act.
Or maybe there's hope! Dana Priest of the Washington Post, in an article entitled, "Bush's 'War' On Terror Comes to a Sudden End," announced that, "with a stroke of his pen, [Obama] effectively declared an end to the 'war on terror'"! Isn't that just wonderful? I'm sure al-Qaeda got the memo. Terrorists can now put their suicide bomb-belts away. Muslim savages will cease being Muslim savages because of Obama's executive orders, according to Dana in Wonderland.
The nuts in the White House believe that we can "reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideas," as Hussein's speech writer put it in Tuesday's inaugural address, following the oaf of office. "Our security emanates from . . . the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint." In other words, show al-Qaeda you've got a fetish about the legal rights of Muslim savages, charm 'em with the emanations of the penumbra of the Due Process clause, and you'll sweep Mohammad off his feet. Al-Qaeda will love you for it.
Bush's approach of whacking the enemy on his home court got breezily dismissed as too "idealistic" but Jimmah Carter II's breeziest 'play patty cake and do sing-alongs with al-Qaeda for peace' passes for "realism". The problem with the moral high ground argument in this case, other than it being insane, is that it's hard to see the moral high ground when you're down in the soft, wet dirt, six feet under the ground. Come to think of it, gird your loins.
Anyway, that's...
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