I wonder if Randall Mikkelsen wishes he or one of his loved ones had been blown up by Padilla?
CNN tried the same spin yesterday. The MSM will support terrorists to bash Bush.
A win’s a win...........Tommy LaSorda(?)......
“Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush”
Reuters, and the rest of the agenda-driven MSM, will never give GWB a victory, even if every jihadist in the world waved a white flag. When will the MSM realize that no one’s paying attention to anything they say but the whacked out left?
Yep, actually catching, convicting and imprisoning a real Islamonazi terrorist felon is “tainted”.
Silly me, and I thought it was a “good thing”. I must not be a “liberal”.
The man was guilty,and was found guilty.But knowing that he was guilty, suppose he still got off on a technicality...
Would the libs be happy ?
Sorry. Padilla being accorded “enemy combatant” status was and is pretty shady. His being a US citizen should have afforded him base line constitutional protections from the very start. Here’s to hoping that sort of executive branch power grabbing never occurs again.
What a stinker!
I used to watch Keith Olbermann, and I always found it interesting that he would disregard the numerous terror threats/plots because the terrorists were unable to carry out the attacks and therfore there is no threat. Then I saw Ellis Henican say that the American Taliban terrorist should be released from jail because he was just a misguided kid.
Then I became a conservative.
Jury nullification is FINE with the lefties when it benefits their cause, but they are given to clucking their tongues and mind-reading when it does not.
And we WON. We convicted this POS. He is going to prison FOREVER. The Bush administration did this, and "reporters" like you, Randall, can pound sand.
Let's fix that:
Padilla case seen as a tainted victory for Bush loss for MainStream Media
That's better.
I think the writer of this article is saddened that with a victory in this case, the government took away a club with which the MSM would have bludgeoned this administration for ‘incarcerating an innocent man for 3 years’, etc, etc.
Victory is Defeat.
(for the left and the Democrat Party specifically)
Furthermore, U.S. prestige abroad was eroded
Security or prestige? I’ll take the security first and worry about prestige later and that’s what this administration is trying to do as is their constitutional duty. As I read the headlines throughout the world and watch world politics I don’t consider loss of prestige throughout the world as a negative anymore. Appeasement seems to be the rule today with no nation willing to take a stand outside the handful who have “lost prestige”