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Will President Obama Revive Military Commissions?
Post Scripts ^ | 5/4/09 | Tina grazier

Posted on 05/04/2009 4:54:42 PM PDT by OneVike

Captured enemy combatants presented a problem for the United States from the very beginning of the war. Since the world had not in previous wars dealt with enemies such as these, legal ground had not been firmly established. To his credit President Bush did everything he could to determine the appropriate legal methods and practices that his administration could use. Guantanamo was chosen specifically as a result of seeking an appropriate solution to the problem of housing captured enemy. When those methods were later questioned President Bush cooperated with Congress and the courts to address legal points and get them resolved quickly.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gitmo; obama; trials; warcrimes
Just a matter of time before Obama and his buddies have these terrorists released and running around America with lawyers ready to sue us for illegally confining them.
1 posted on 05/04/2009 4:54:43 PM PDT by OneVike
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To: OneVike

Are you speaking of the Godfather and his thugs getting the terrorist released?


2 posted on 05/05/2009 7:25:43 AM PDT by Piquaboy (Military veteran of 22 years in Navy, Air Force, and Army.)
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To: Piquaboy
Hey. don't put me in with that crowd of Gangsters!!

D.C.

3 posted on 05/05/2009 8:21:54 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: Piquaboy
That would seem to be the idea with the great "One".

God help us all.
4 posted on 05/05/2009 8:49:56 AM PDT by OneVike (Just a Christian waiting to go home)
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