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Obama Issues Directives on Detainees, Interrogation, Guantanamo (Abortion too)
FoxNews ^ | 01/22/2009 | Fox News Staff

Posted on 01/22/2009 8:56:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne

WASHINGTON -- President Obama, putting his executive pen in his left hand to overrule eight years of Bush administration policy, signed "several" executive orders Thursday, including ones affecting national security and abortion.

The national security orders mandate that interrogation techniques in the Army Field Manual be used by all intelligence and law enforcement services; call for a task force to look at closing the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within the year; and order a strategy be developed for handling detainees in the future. The presidential directive also orders a stay in the case of Ali Al-Marri, the only person being held by the military as an enemy combatant on U.S. soil.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; agenda; bailoutforterrorists; barackobama; bho44; bhoeo; clubgitmo; democrats; detainees; firsthundreddays; gitmo; guantanamo; islam; jihad; obama; terroristbailout; terrorists; wot
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Well folks, he's gone and done it. If you saw the video of him doing this, you saw the Orwellian comments he made while doing it.
1 posted on 01/22/2009 8:56:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne

So far, this is no different than what McLoser had planned.


2 posted on 01/22/2009 8:58:53 AM PST by Sans-Culotte
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To: DoughtyOne

The only thing this will do, for the future, is that less prisoners will be taken. Count on it.


3 posted on 01/22/2009 8:59:26 AM PST by RC2
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To: DoughtyOne

Surrender!

Was 0bamessiah’s mother really French?


4 posted on 01/22/2009 8:59:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Keynes is dead. Keynesianism is dead.)
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To: DoughtyOne

“As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals”


5 posted on 01/22/2009 8:59:52 AM PST by Joiseydude ("As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals" Obama)
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To: DoughtyOne

Terrorism - Coming to a town near you.


6 posted on 01/22/2009 9:00:18 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: DoughtyOne

Obama infers that the United States was committing war crimes, by his comments and actions. The man is stark raving delusional on this matter.

He states we will now use the military code of justice on matters like this. He grants them full Geneva Convention status by doing so.

What is the impetus for combatants around the world to abide by Geneva Convention standards regarding conduct during hostilities. Well, there is none after what Obama has just done.

You can’t get better treatment if you abide by the Geneva Convention rule of conduct, so no need to bother. And this also makes the inference that terrorists share the same moral character as legal combatants do.

This is wrong on so many levels, and yet Obama doesn’t realize it.

This is but the first of his actions on a long four year term. Good luck citizens.


7 posted on 01/22/2009 9:01:21 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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call for a task force to look at closing the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within the year

So it still might not close by the end of his term.
8 posted on 01/22/2009 9:01:42 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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"Separately, the administration issued a reversal of a ban on federal funding for non-governmental organizations working outside the U.S. that offer abortions or abortion counseling."

Sooooo.....TORTURING babies is OK-Dokie....but, terrorists....NO?

9 posted on 01/22/2009 9:01:54 AM PST by goodnesswins (Tell the truth - GOEBBELIZATION (propaganda) is what many voters suffer from.....)
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To: DoughtyOne

Coming soon......death of the republic.....birth of the fascist state.


10 posted on 01/22/2009 9:02:00 AM PST by Rockitz (NObama 2008- Strange we ain't believin')
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To: Sans-Culotte
"Separately, the administration issued a reversal of a ban on federal funding for non-governmental organizations working outside the U.S. that offer abortions or abortion counseling.

No love lost for McCain, but this is different. Paging Douglas Kmiec.

11 posted on 01/22/2009 9:02:13 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: DoughtyOne
It's official. The terrorists got their bailout.
12 posted on 01/22/2009 9:02:18 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing (Reuters + Politico = Poleuters)
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To: Sans-Culotte

One of the reasons why he didn’t get my vote. He will never get a vote from me, and I will do my damnedest to make sure he doesn’t get anyone else’s either.


13 posted on 01/22/2009 9:03:39 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Honorary perhaps...


14 posted on 01/22/2009 9:04:06 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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To: Joiseydude
multiple realistic scenarios contained within one episode of "24" puts the lie to that idealistic notion ...
15 posted on 01/22/2009 9:04:18 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Army Air Corps

You are sadly probably right. If there is another attack on our soil, after none for 7 years, Obama and the Democrat party will be toast. It will be plainly obvious to most Americans then who they can not trust to protect them from terrorists and our enemies.


17 posted on 01/22/2009 9:05:41 AM PST by utahson
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To: Joiseydude

What ideals? Seriously. This guy wouldn’t know an ideal if it bit him on the caboose. Moral relativism rears it’s ugly head in the White House. We have a child without an anchor to reality. Heaven help us.


18 posted on 01/22/2009 9:05:54 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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To: Army Air Corps

Yep...


19 posted on 01/22/2009 9:06:14 AM PST by DoughtyOne (D1: Home of the golden tag line: If we are all equal, why was 01/20/09 a profound day in history?)
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Send them to Hollywood where the dip shits wanted them released..Park them on the front lawns of these morons..Don't forget to give them a knife to protect themselves..
20 posted on 01/22/2009 9:06:31 AM PST by PLD
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