Posted on 03/13/2009 8:58:35 PM PDT by RIRed
Although Obama refuses to describe enemy combatants as “enemy combatants”, he has reserved the right to detain enemy combatants without charging them in the American judicial system. Liberals who figured out what Obama is up to are not happy. They call the move symbolic with good reason. On the issue of enemy combatants, Obama is essentially doing the same thing as President Bush. He’s just calling it something else.
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why not call the what they are? Terrorists.
The left hates that term even more.
So all these leftards, who have told us for all this time that we should call the handicapped the “physically challenged”, the retarded the “developmentally delayed” and other such nonsense, have finally figured out that by changing the name of the thing you don’t actually change the thing? What took them so long?
Broadcast the new acronym:
O ne
B ig
A ss
M istake
A merica!
What’s funny is that only some of them have figured it out
Correction from Helen Thomas. “So-called Terrorists”
ENEMY COMBATANTS....SO they shall ever be known.
I like the sound of “Enemy” in the morning.
Uhhhhh...? That’s not what he meant ? ...Tough.
I guess to the morons in Washington, they are now “undocumented freedom fighters.” America! Why did you do this? This country is now an embarrassment.
We’ve got to be politically correct. It offended the terrorists to be called enemy combatants. That terminology is loaded with innuendo and assumptions about what these guys were doing. I’m sure the terrorists in the world are happy that we won’t offend their sensibilities any more.
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