White House Rewrites The History of the War on Terror and Jose' Padilla

The Lid/Weekly Standard ^ | 2/12/2010 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Churchill was right, history is written by the victors, and no one believes that more than than President Obama, which is ironic as one of the president's first moves was insulting our ally Great Britain, by refusing their gift of bust of Winston Churchill.

The other night, our SCHMOTUS, Joe Biden, stunned audiences by claiming Iraq will go down as Obama's greatest achievements. Obama's opposed almost everything the the previous administration did to win the war including the Surge. Obama's only achievement in Iraq, is keeping with the plans left by the Bush administration, including the withdrawal plan. The same administration that blames Bush for everything, doesn't "blame him" for his achievements.

There is another, more dangerous history rewrite the Obama administration, and that involves convinced terrorist Jose' Padilla.

José Padilla is a United States citizen convicted of aiding terrorists. Padilla was arrested in Chicago in 2002, and was detained as a material witness for about one month when President Bush designated him an illegal enemy combatant, arguing that he was thereby not entitled to trial in civilian courts. Padilla was held for three-and-a-half years as an "enemy combatant" after his arrest in 2002 on suspicion of plotting a "dirty bomb" attack. That charge was dropped and his case was moved to a civilian court after pressure from civil liberties groups. In 2007 Padilla was found guilty of conspiring to kill people in an overseas jihad and to fund and support overseas terrorism.

[concerned about politics]

Joe Biden, stunned audiences by claiming Iraq will go down as Obama's greatest achievements.

OMG. Mouths dropped open. Is there no limit on how low this administration will go?

[ecomcon]

I truly loathe Obama. With much loathing. A loathe that surpasses all other loathers. A loathe that is so full of loathing that the word loathe loses its loathesomeness. Even so, I am loath to cease its use.