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 ...
I’ve a two predictions that I’ll put money behind, in Las Vegas, if I can get decent odds on.
The first is conditional. If the detainees are tranferred to the U.S., at least one of them will be released on bail while awaiting trial or deportation hearings.
Secondly, I predict that sometime during the next four years at least one of the current 14 high-value detainees will testify during a Congressional hearing.
More than a few of the detainees speak English fluently.
Not what I said, I said “Also, I don’t think he has ever known liberty or he would not think like that.”
Surely you know that a persons thoughts and opinions are dictated by ones environment and life experiences.
T he last half of the above sentence clearly proves my point - you really don’t understand and will never understand what I’m talking about
but now? in all seriousness just one question where to hell do you think i´m living? in iran or saudia arabia? because it sounds like that. it´s called austria (central europe)
you really think that you are more free or that you have more liberties than me? hey we both live in a western democracy there for you like me are (in theory) as free as 51% of the voters want us to be.
Look here hot shot, I know where Austria is and I know what it is. Austria has never known real liberty and has always been subject to the whim of kings, monarchs or some other flavor of tin pot dictators whereas America has never been ruled by either but by elected presidents.
Also, I refer to times past when I was a younger man, I knew what liberty was and I am not naive enough to think it is what we have now.
In the end though and in totality with as much defiance as I have, I disagree with you.
Don’t get me wrong, but your entire post #10 is bullcrap.
President Obama is trying to govern by appeasment and that will be his undoing
How’s life in the liberal cocoon you live in? Will you volunteer to take in one or two of the guests? suspect...NOT.
Good grief. I don't see anyone risking their lives to get into Austria, or any other country on this earth for that matter.
Frankly I do not give one cool damn who likes the USA or who doesn't. Jealousy gives rise to many wierd opinions, and I just thank God every day to be an American. I will never apologize for that to anyone.
Also, conservatism and liberalism are not nation dependent, they are more a behavior/belief system more than anything.
Most Americans crave liberty to the extent we would be willing the kill or be killed for it.
We crave unbounded liberty to pursue happiness, be it wealth and materiel happiness, religious liberty or own our property without fear of government confiscation unfettered by government.
That my friend is what you don’t get.
Its great to hear your to the reading level now.
So I might be misinterpreting your comment and your were going to tell me something like a declaration of war was declared. Please tell me what country is on that declaration? Or better yet what government it was declared on?
You wish to see a Proper declaration of WAR ... See Post #4
I guess the Servers that hold up Dhummies Underwhelmed and the Daily KOokS must be down.
sounds like we have more than our share of IDIOTS, LIBERALS and RON PAUL KOOKS.
You are obviously taking my quote out of contents. My response was to the “Alberta’s Child” whom said that this was not a war (IE Iraq / Afghanistan) quote below. That might help you understand my comment.
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It’s only called war if a number of very narrow circumstances have been met. And they are only permitted to participate in war under a similar very narrow set of defined circumstances.
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.
“Alberta’s Child”
**Please tell me what country is on that declaration? Or better yet what government it was declared on?**
Attention you liberal scumbag.. you changed the subject AGAIN, just like ALL LIBERALS do when then DON’T HAVE A CLUE.
Give me Article and paragraph which shows the PROPER FORM for a Declaration of WAR. Otherwise,
Take your newly Elected MULLAH HUSSEIN to Austrian’s House and all 3 of you can sing KUMBAHYAH!
No offense taken from your post #91.
I have been talking about liberty - not quite the same as freedom but very similar.
We derive our liberty from our creator and freedoms are generally granted by a government.
Our bill of rights cover all aspects or our liberty and not one time is the word freedom mentioned but rather rights are enumerated as inalienable, given by our creator.
When the media and the government talk about freedom, the mean those freedoms granted by the governments.
Personally, I tend to ignore the government given freedoms in favor of rights and liberty and ignore laws the detract from my rights - I get into trouble sometimes for though.
I wouldn’t call this letter a “chide”. I would call it a “well deserved punch in the schnoz”!
Shut up, foreigner. You’re not even an American. How could you know how it felt to lose a loved one on 9/11?
Crawl back into your cave. Your goat is waiting for you.
The Congressional authorization for the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan is nothing more than an open-ended commitment involving no defined enemy, no conditions for "victory," etc. It can be construed to mean whatever any future administration wants it to mean -- though its ultimate intent is to provide the legal basis for U.S. military commitments that will likely last several generations.
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