Posted on 07/09/2009 2:56:31 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Over the course of his tenure, President Obama has not only shown a disdain for the War Against Islamic Terrorists (also known as the War Against People Who Create Man-Made Disasters), but Obama has shown a total disregard for those who lost family members to acts of terror.
Back in February, Obama upset the families of the USS Cole victims when he stopped the military commissions that were going to try the terrorists: ..The Cole's commanding officer when it was bombed in Yemen in 2000 - was among a dozen people who met with Obama and have been angered by the decision. "I was certainly disappointed with the decision to delay the military commissions process," Lippold told reporters before the meeting. "We have already waited eight years."
Another victim's family member Debra Burlingame said this about that February meeting:
We'd been had.
Binyam Mohamed -- the al Qaeda operative selected by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) for a catastrophic post-9/11 attack with co-conspirator Jose Padilla -- was released 17 days later. In a follow-up conference call, the White House liaison to 9/11 and Cole families refused to answer questions about the circumstances surrounding the decision to repatriate Mohamed, including whether he would be freed in Great Britain.
The phrase "swift and certain justice" had been used by top presidential adviser David Axelrod in an interview prior to our meeting with the president. "Swift and certain justice" figured prominently in the White House press release issued before we had time to surrender our White House security passes. "At best, he manipulated the families," Kirk Lippold, commanding officer of the USS Cole at the time of the attack and the leader of the Cole families group, told me recently. "At worst, he misrepresented his true intentions."
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Obama, involved in fraud!! It can’t be true! [/sarc]
Axerlrod and BO were probably referring to what happened on 9/11/01 when they talked about “swift and certain justice”
You realize, of course, that the “man-caused disasters” trope is designed to establish moral equivalence between terrorism from the third world vs. global warming from the first world. It’s called “creating the predicate” by the academic left.
I call it accessory after the fact.
sigh.
It is just going to get worse. :(
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