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Alexander Hamilton Wouldn’t Approve of a Terrorist’s Clemency
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/20/2017 | JOE CONNOR

Posted on 01/21/2017 9:14:39 PM PST by Beave Meister

Although overshadowed by the clemency bestowed on Chelsea Manning, on Tuesday the news broke that President Obama was commuting the sentence of Oscar López Rivera. The push to release the terrorist had been a cause célèbre in Puerto Rico, the U.S. and Latin America for years. He counts among his supporters New York Mayor Bill de Blasio,

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1 posted on 01/21/2017 9:14:39 PM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

The Manning releases, including more than 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, have been described as putting U.S. troops and many individuals working with our armed forces at risk.

The Afghan war logs contained the names of 900 Afghanis who had worked with U.S. soldiers; though it has never been proved that any of those individuals died as a result of Manning’s perfidy, anecdotal tales of Taliban recriminations suggest otherwise.

Libs think they just wanted to toke a joint with the informers I’m pretty sure.


2 posted on 01/21/2017 9:38:34 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Beave Meister

Hamilton wouldn’t have approved of a lib fantasy musical about his life, wouldn’t have approved of the cast of that musical attacking Mike Pence, and wouldn’t approve of libs invoking his name to attempt a coup against a the duly-elected President.


3 posted on 01/21/2017 10:16:22 PM PST by Impy (Toni Preckwinkle for Ambassador to the Sun)
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To: Beave Meister

Terrorists would have been treated like pirates and hung


4 posted on 01/22/2017 4:46:18 AM PST by captain_dave
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