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Bush's 'war on terror' comes to a sudden end (HEY LIBS, YOU PICKED A TRAITOR, WIMP AND LOSER!)
MSNBC ^ | 1/23/2009 | Dana Priest

Posted on 01/23/2009 3:40:27 AM PST by tobyhill

President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. Bush had defined it, signaling to the world that the reach of the U.S. government in battling its enemies will not be limitless.

While Obama says he has no plans to diminish counterterrorism operations abroad, the notion that a president can circumvent long-standing U.S. laws simply by declaring war was halted by executive order in the Oval Office.

Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas corpus and due process had been denied detainees, will close, and the CIA is now prohibited from maintaining its own overseas prisons. And in a broad swipe at the Bush administration's lawyers, Obama nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11, 2001.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho44; bhogwot; nationalinsecurity
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To: MarkT

I definitely agree with you there. But it was embarassing reading comments from people who wouldn’t vote for Romney due to his religion. (I’m not saying he’d have been my pick, but seeing how the economy killed McCain, Romney would have been the perfect person to get up at those debates and destroy Obama.)


21 posted on 01/23/2009 4:12:30 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Looking up all those democrat "patriotic to oppose this president" quotes...)
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To: tobyhill

I will never be able to support Obama after this. He is what a real failure looks like. The sad thing is this bozo really believes all that leftist BS about war. My fifteen year old had plans to enlist after HS but now says he won’t serve under Obama.


22 posted on 01/23/2009 4:13:03 AM PST by linn37 (cue the circus music the democrats are back in charge)
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To: MarkT
We must begin now to re-vamp the party rules that allow people other than registered Republicans to vote in our primaries. When Independents/same-day-registered “Republicans” can vote, the Dems aided by their shills in the press control the person ‘we’ select. The result is McCain and then Obama.

You nailed it. Why should the Republican party allow DEMOCRATS (New Hampshire, for example) to choose their candidate? That is EXACTLY what happened with McCain.

23 posted on 01/23/2009 4:16:04 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Darkwolf377
Thank you "conservatives" for not getting behind one of the other candidates.

Why is it that "conservatives" are the only ones who are ever held to account?

24 posted on 01/23/2009 4:18:51 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: tobyhill
With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror,"

Why is this idiot making himself such an easy political target? People really don't like terrorists. There is no groundswell against the War on Terror. While I would have appreciated more clarity in our war terminology, such as "war against radical Islam," now I appreciate President Bush's choice of words—just as ZerObama apparently does not. Everybody's against "terror."

Obomber's political support on all fronts is about to bleed away, from this day forward, with a thousand goofs like this. For all his PR, he is tone-deaf. (And a lousy defense strategist, it goes without saying.)

25 posted on 01/23/2009 4:24:12 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: tobyhill

I just got one of those Nigerian scam mails, but this one came from 0’s new head of the treasury. Anyone else getting this?


26 posted on 01/23/2009 4:26:38 AM PST by Waco
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To: tobyhill

One day in office and he already has American blood on his hands....


27 posted on 01/23/2009 4:27:13 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Darkwolf377

Your quite welcome. When there was a candidate worth getting behind, i.e., when Sarah Palin joined the race, we “conservatives” got behind her, dispite the RINO at the front of the ticket. The other candidates all had one thing or another to prevent complete unity of support, but Sarah is special!


28 posted on 01/23/2009 4:29:38 AM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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To: linn37

My 14-year-old has always had a dream of serving in the military, too, but he won’t serve under Hussein, either.

And about Obama killing the War on Terror - I don’t plan to go to any national landmarks, big cities, or areas where large groups of people congregate (football, basketball, hockey games, etc.) in the next 4 years because we WILL be hit. Innocent Americans ARE going to die because of Obama’s hatred of the war. I give it 18 months at the most.


29 posted on 01/23/2009 4:32:12 AM PST by FarRightFanatic (It wasn't an election. It was a socialist coup.)
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To: Just mythoughts
Because RINOs view Conservatives as the real enemy, not their friends the Marxist ‘Rats..
30 posted on 01/23/2009 4:33:36 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: SubMareener
The Military will not agree to that... barry will enjoy a coup before that happens. 1st Lt. Billy is not going to knock his uncles door down and seize all Constitutionally protected weapons... and there are not enough FBI or Feds to bust down 200 million doors... they will not even venture into East LA! barry will lose power and will become a pariah when we are hit again... if his actions are tied with the lapses in security that allows it to happen.

LLS

31 posted on 01/23/2009 4:33:36 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Darkwolf377
Thank you "conservatives" for not getting behind one of the other candidates.

You do realize being a conservative means you are a minority group with the GOP? Who says we were not behind other candidates? You?

A lot went wrong this elections cycle and my experience with it, indicates it was all an internal mess.

32 posted on 01/23/2009 4:34:17 AM PST by EBH ( Directive 10-289)
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To: tobyhill

Right now I really do not care if we are attacked. Sure it will suck, but how bad can you feel for a country who knowingly invites attacks?

Out in the real world laws do not mater, to those who choose to ignore them, and in a fight the most ruthless and brutal fighter will win. We no longer have the desire to win, only to play nice.


33 posted on 01/23/2009 4:34:26 AM PST by Mark was here (The earth is bipolar.)
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To: gusopol3

zero is a muzzie... and he will try to help his fellow satanists destroy America. Buy guns and ammo now... buy as much as you can afford.

LLS


34 posted on 01/23/2009 4:35:39 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Joe Boucher

I’d say five years on the over under. They can now begin to rebuild their capabilities then get into specific planning. It all will take time, the sad part being he might be re-elected before the inevitable big one happens.


35 posted on 01/23/2009 4:36:11 AM PST by John W
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

White conservatives will get the blame for that one.


36 posted on 01/23/2009 4:38:08 AM PST by rabidralph (Obama is the McNabb of politics.)
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To: tobyhill

I’m fairly surprised there are folks here
that have such passion regarding our country.

Never thought I’d even entertain the thought..
but I may have to inject my opinions in the local
election/governmental process.

Somehow conservatives need to re-energize the normal(non-washington) folks and take back control of our country.
So...
to those of you that are truly offended by the current political trends,
Get off your butts and figure out how you can get into some office since this seems to be the only way to make a bulk difference. Look....
I hate the idea too but it kinda has to be done this way.
So if a fraud like BO can do it,
so can you.
Do a private reply back to me if you of like mind - Georgia is my state - so respond accordingly.


37 posted on 01/23/2009 4:39:03 AM PST by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Just wait until the jihadis finally blow up and American school, mall, or hospital, and we’ll see how fast Obama changes his mind.

My thought is that we'll first get something like that the Atocha train terrorist attack they had in Spain.

Worse is to follow.

38 posted on 01/23/2009 4:39:13 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Darkwolf377
Thank you "conservatives" for not getting behind one of the other candidates.

They should've listened to Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. So many Consrvatives were cowed by the vicious smear campaign against Ann Coulter that they screwed up royally and John McInsane came to the fore.

39 posted on 01/23/2009 4:41:10 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Darkwolf377

Pro-queer agenda, Pro-abortion, and Anti-gun was and is Mutt Romney’s problem. It had nothing to do with religion!


40 posted on 01/23/2009 4:42:02 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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