Posted on 08/21/2009 11:15:10 AM PDT by Mr. K
The US President’s criticism of the “mistake” added to a growing backlash against the Scottish decision to free the biggest mass murderer in British legal history on compassionate grounds.
Hours after the Scottish National Party administration in Edinburgh announced its decision to free him, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the only man convicted of the 1988 atrocity, flew home to a hero’s welcome in Tripoli.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Is the Telegraph in UK in the bag for Obama?
Obama could have filed formal papers with scotland to grab him- we have an existing indictment for him, and a TREATY in place with Scotland for exactly this situation.
OBAMA DID NOTHING TO STOP THIS!!!
Except be so stupid they knew the 'wee wee man' would allow them to get away with it
Gee, Ears, are you sure it’s wise to denounce your Muslim brethren? It might make them mad and we certainly don’t want anyone mad at us, right?
Yeah, well when he speaks out about N Korea launching 7 missiles in July, I will listen.
He DID speak up about Michael Jackson dying, though. Sooooo, there's that.
Reminds one of an effective cartoon (can't remember the cartoonist's name) during the Carter years that showed a tiny presidential figure trailing a large number of individuals, crying something like,
"I am their leader. I must follw them."
Ooops . . .Last line should have read, “I must follow them.”
Mistake is right in line with the vocabulary of “Wee Wee Man”.
A mistake? A mistake is when you walk out of the door with one blue sock and one brown sock.
A leader who TRIED and FAILED would have used words such as:
a debacle, a miscarriage, a travesty, a dereliction of duty, a total failure in justice, a bitter pill to swallow, a calamity, a defeat for justice, an outrage that must not be permitted etc.
But a true moral leader would have said prior to any release:
“No, as in Hell no! This will not happen on my watch.”
Scotland got wee weed up.
His first question (behind closed doors) was “What’s Lockerbie”?
Obama wants him shipped to Gitmo?
its alot easier to protest it than to ask for the prisoner and be seen as unsympathetic.
Hell we’d have to listen to a whole ‘nother apology tour if he died in our custody.
Ronald Reagan would have sent fighters to escort the passenger plane into the NATO base at Naples...
The truth is that Gheddafi ordered the massacre. Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and his partner who for mysterious reasons was found innocent (when the two were as close as Siamese twins in pulling off the crime) were materially responsible for the crime, but the principal was Gheddafi (in this case a “little Bin Laden”).
Does anyone really believe that one fine day Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi got up and decided to bring down a Pan Am Jumbo Jet out of personal conviction - unconnected to the policy of a tyrant who had ordered many other murderous acts?
The end of the trial (Scottish rite) with its split decision, one innocent and another guilty, then heralded a bizarre event: Gheddafi paid money to the families of the victims and ended his weapons of mass destruction program, whereupon he became once again a “reliable” partner.
Why would he pay unless he were guilty?
All the fuss over Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is understandable, but it tells a rather disturbing story. That’s how I see it. Justice wasn’t done, Deals were done. And this is a fitting end to it all: a last slap in the face to lady justice whose blindfold of fairness had first been taken off and who had then prostituted herself. Truly a case of follow the money.
I agree, Obama thinks that his rhetoric is enough to cover his butt on the responsibility for the release of this murderer.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!!!
I am sure Obama knew before this ever took place publicly. The fix was in. I wonder what the quid pro quo was for that one.
Scotland is the new France.
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