Posted on 01/25/2009 3:26:05 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
This morning, the New York Daily News published my op-ed on President Barack Obama's decision to close Guantanamo and suspend the Military Commissions:
With his shameful order to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama has perfectly filled the stereotype of the classic clueless ultra-Liberal -- the one who can generate great passion for the rights of the guilty defendant and none for the innocent victim.With a single stroke of the pen, Obama has delayed justice for the victims of 9/11, and in essence granted a reprieve for Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11.
America does not honor our "rule of law and the rights of man" as he put in his inauguration speech by such an action. Instead, this nation abdicated its duty to justice.
It seems the new President is too far removed from the victims of 9/11. Victims like 11-year-old Bernard Curtis Brown, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Everyone onboard was killed, as well as [125] people in the Pentagon. Curtis was on a trip with several of his classmates to California sponsored by National Geographic.
Obama and the Democrats have had a blind spot for 9/11 and have yet to show they have an ounce of understanding what happened that day.
Here is why we were attacked: Muslim extremists hate Americans and want us dead. Our policies in no way influenced the vitriol perpetuated on innocent Americans on September 11, 2001. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at 911familiesforamerica.org ...
They didn’t rob the corner Quickie-Mart or mug a few old ladies in a dark alley. They were enemy combatants out of uniform waging war on US soldiers. The folly in all this is the refusal to face the fact that we are at war with committed Islamofascists intent on destroying the US and western civilization. We can’t simply say, oh, well, try them in civil court, allow these enemies all the benefits of US citizens, etc., (which they aren’t legally entitled to). It’s insane, but no more than the rest of the Liberal agenda. Meanwhile, Europe is tiptoeing away from the idea that they’d take Guantanamo’s prisoners. They probably figure their own Muslim population would clamor for their immediate release, and rapes, murders, and mutilations would go through the roof.
Let's get real here, I really don't care what the world thinks of us, they're just a bunch of 2 bit dictators or pansy socialists and are jealous of us.
Remember the statement," Lead, Follow, or get out of the way"; the rest of the world won't do any of them. So when they open their collective mouths, over here, in my house, it falls on deaf ears.
Hey austrian, nothing personal, it just struck a cord and I haven't had all my coffee yet.
I really was hoping Bush would have ordered the executions of all the Club Gitmo detainees prior to leaving office. Ugh.
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I'm not trying to be a “Bully”, (isn't that what you guys call strong people)
but your thoughts and ideas are suicidal to say the least.
Yikes, you and your kind scare the beejezzas out of me.
Let’s get real here, I really don’t care what the world thinks of us, they’re just a bunch of 2 bit dictators or pansy socialists and are jealous of us.
They are POWs . Tails or no trials. Our choice.
And I and many honorable Americans don't give a crap what the Muslim terrorist sympathizing world thinks!
WOW, after reading your thoughts, and the reply’s you received
I don’t think you will be viewed as a friendly poster on this site
after this morning. Your view of the Gitmo situation tells me your
ID austrian, might just let the cat out of the bag. If you have these
liberal European ideas, just take a look at what the Islamists are
doing to your continent.
I’m not trying to be a “Bully”, (isn’t that what you guys call strong people)
but your thoughts and ideas are suicidal to say the least.
Yikes, you and your kind scare the beejezzas out of me.
Why would the president of a country release prisoners that any reasonable person would suspect of plotting to do great harm to that country’s citizens, interests, and property?
I think you should grasp in very short order that people who put "image" over responsible citizenship are not Americans at all, they're just pretenders. I think you can relate to pretenders.
Kindly piss off.
American “image” has suffered? How f9cking dare you even presume to lecture Americans about you implanted opinions of our “image.”
I think you should grasp in very short order that people who put “image” over responsible citizenship are not Americans at all, they’re just pretenders. I think you can relate to pretenders.
Kindly piss off.
“it is a shame for a country which claims himself free to imprison people for years without a trial or prooven evidence.”
We didn’t just pluck the people off a street in Baltimore and send them to Cuba.
We have a an ORGANIZATION that had dedicated itself to murdering as many of us as it can. What do you want to do, ignore it?
They aren’t doing this as individuals, so the regular court system doesn’t work here.
They aren’t doing this as soldiers for a state government, so the Geneva Conventions on War don’t apply here.
So what are we supposed to do?
One thing you have to understand, though, is that these detainees in places like Gitmo have a very unusual legal status under both U.S. and international law. They aren't U.S. citizens and they haven't been captured on U.S. soil -- so they can't be charged with crimes under the U.S. criminal system. At the same time, they don't meet any legal definition of "military personnel" under international law -- primarily because they are not citizens of the countries they are supposedly defending when they engage in combat against U.S. troops. A Saudi national who is captured in Iraq is not a "prisoner of war" in any sense of the phrase; nor is a Kuwaiti captured in Afghanistan, etc.
I have no idea what the solution is under normal legal standards.
Oh, and by the way . . . I predict Gitmo is never going to be closed by this administration, and most (if not all) of those detainees will stay there.
That's an excellent point. I'd add, however, that the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan probably don't even constitute "warfare" under the legal standards of the United States.
> That’s an excellent point. I’d add, however, that the U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan probably don’t even constitute “warfare” under the legal standards of the United States.
Interesting... what would they be? “Policing actions”, perhaps? That would be my first guess.
Sorry, I just had to fix that
Agreed. Gitmo will not be closed. This is all part of BO's BS for opening day ceremonies. It was an instant-gratification reward for the radical lefties who supported him.
Some convenient excuse will be found later for keeping the camp open.
Leni
Good post!
Hi Ron! Cheers for that, mate!
Is it still chilly in Las Vegas?
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