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Obama rejects call for Bush-era truth commission (nothing would be gained from it)
Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/21/09 | Reuters

Posted on 05/21/2009 2:03:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday rejected calls, including by some fellow Democrats, for a truth commission to investigate Bush-era terrorism policies, saying nothing would be gained from it.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bushera; obama; rejects; truthcommission

1 posted on 05/21/2009 2:03:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

“...saying nothing would be gained from it.”

Liberal translation:
We have more to lose than anyone else, so shut up.


2 posted on 05/21/2009 2:05:54 PM PDT by dajeeps
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To: NormsRevenge

Of course not. Obama is the ultimate arbiter of “truth”.


3 posted on 05/21/2009 2:06:31 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: NormsRevenge

What happened to that whole ‘transparency’ thing?


4 posted on 05/21/2009 2:06:52 PM PDT by exist
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Why should it be limited to a Bush-era investigation only anyway?

Bush was just dealing with the mess he was left by Clinton, right?

U.S. President Barack Obama makes a speech on America's national security
at the National Archives in Washington May 21, 2009. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

5 posted on 05/21/2009 2:07:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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Oooops. Bambi chased the dog and now it’s turning back on him. Woof-woof you little pansy.


6 posted on 05/21/2009 2:07:38 PM PDT by JPG
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To: NormsRevenge

Ya think it’s because he knows Nazi Peeeeelosi is a lying bitch?


7 posted on 05/21/2009 2:07:44 PM PDT by BamaDi (Sessions/Bachmann....my new choice)
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To: dajeeps

that, my FRiend, is exactly the situation in a nutshell..


8 posted on 05/21/2009 2:08:22 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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To: NormsRevenge

because the dems are more responsible for the mes we are in than anyone


9 posted on 05/21/2009 2:08:27 PM PDT by daku
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To: NormsRevenge

>>>> calls, including by some fellow Democrats, for a truth commission <<<<<<

Are any alleged Republicans calling for these kangaroo courts?


10 posted on 05/21/2009 2:08:30 PM PDT by angkor
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To: NormsRevenge

Interesting way of putting it - not “That would be nuts, unconstitutional, and as evil as the worst fascist banana republic”, but “nothing would be gained by it.”

This regime scares the keerap outta me.


11 posted on 05/21/2009 2:09:21 PM PDT by Argus (We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
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i.e. he’s losing the argument with Cheney and therefore he doesn’t have the political capital to do it


12 posted on 05/21/2009 2:09:53 PM PDT by dinoparty
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To: NormsRevenge
Obama rejects call for Bush-era truth commission
13 posted on 05/21/2009 2:11:01 PM PDT by Kent C
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To: NormsRevenge

odumbo really said, that @#@$$%$ Chaney made me and the san fran hag look foolish


14 posted on 05/21/2009 2:22:49 PM PDT by italianquaker (We went from a country that hates the president to a president that hates his country)
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To: NormsRevenge

how many attacks were there on us when clintin and his gang were in the oval office? This wasn’t President Bush’s mess..it was clintin’s mess and ... still is but...they would prefer as always to bblame Bush. tsk, tsk.


15 posted on 05/21/2009 2:25:25 PM PDT by cubreporter
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To: NormsRevenge

Let’s PRETEND Pelosi was tellling the truth when she said the CIA LIED to her. In that reality it goes without saying that we need some sort of inquiry because if the CIA is actually lying to Congress (ha ha) that isn’t acceptable or safe since they have to rely on the information to make decisions.


16 posted on 05/21/2009 2:29:25 PM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: angkor
Are any alleged Republicans calling for these kangaroo courts?

It would be interesting since the Democrats are involved the the very policies that their base so hates. We "got to move on", no sense dwelling in the past!!

17 posted on 05/21/2009 3:15:32 PM PDT by JimSEA
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