cheer every airliner exploded.
Why would they oppose this travesty. It was jihad
against America and therefore acceptable.
Everyone in the world knows it.
Posted on 07/28/2010 9:47:13 AM PDT by Qbert
The Obama administration has been a major disappointment on many fronts.
But on this one, disgrace may be a more apt description.
Despite highly disingenuous affectations of surprise, the administration knew full well that Scottish authorities were considering releasing the infamous Lockerbie bomber and mass murderer Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi last year. Yet, in a communique to Scotland last August, released publicly only now, the U.S. State Department argued most meekly against the outrageous release.
"The United States is not prepared to support Megrahi's release," the letter said.
Not prepared to support? In diplomatic circles, that's beyond weak; it's nearly a green light.
The letter includes other milquetoast verbiage such as "extremely inappropriate" to describe the hero's welcome Megrahi might receive in Libya for having killed 270 Westerners. And, indeed, that's exactly what happened.
Ask the bombing victims' long-suffering survivors if that qualifies as "extremely inappropriate" or a world-class insult and outrage.
Scottish authorities released him last Aug. 20 ostensibly because he was less than 90 days from dying. As of this writing, however, he was still believed to be breathing the air of a free man. After being convicted of 270 counts of murder.
Many believe Megrahi was traded for Libyan oil access being actively sought at the time by -- you guessed it -- BP. The Senate Foreign Relations committee is investigating that possibility at a hearing on Thursday.
What did the Obama administration do to prevent this second Scottish catastrophe? It sent a mildly worded dispatch. No call from the president or chief aides. No public denouncements to shame Scotland into holding onto this mass murderer.
Instead, as Princeton University professor Robert P. George noted Tuesday, President Obama at the time of the release was neck-deep in the row over the Cambridge arrest of a black Harvard professor and the subsequent "beer summit" between the parties at the White House. Both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attended.
But the impending release of the predator behind the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing that killed 190 Americans -- many coming home for Christmas -- didn't warrant a phone call from the White House? Or a more strongly worded objection -- or, gasp!, an in-person sitdown -- from the State Department?
That's a disgrace.
The US should have given him an all-expenses-paid, permanent vacation to Club Gitmo’.
I’m not surprised. This administration has been a disgrace from day one.
Everyone in the world knows it.
Precisely, if they were concerned about his safety and security...the thug should have been placed in Gitmo.
But then again, Obama wants to free his brethren there too!
Every single day, another revelation of who he really is. What else don’t we know?
Obama ENCOURAGED his release.
Despite highly disingenuous affectations of surprise
i.e.
HE LIED
“Obama ENCOURAGED his release.”
Yeah, and apparently there are more documents that the administration has refused to release (which nobody in the journolista/mainstream media is talking about), which doubtless proves this:
Scotland’s First Minister told the US Senate Committee “The US government has refused publication of various documents ... The Scottish Government cannot breach the long-standing practice of holding in confidence government to government communications, by publishing this material without the permission of the US Government. The Senate Committee may wish to pursue these issues.”
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/national-news/salmond_offer_over_lockerbie_probe_1_708087
Its totally insane.
Where’s Mitch Rapp when you need him?
If it had been up to me, I would have prevented the murderous scum from cheating his sentence, via an early death. He'd be hooked up to life-support and kept artificially “alive”, until he'd served a reasonable number of years. Say, one per death he caused. Oh, and his feeding tube would contain pureed pork.
“The bomber was sentenced to life — then released on “compassionate” grounds, because he was thought to be dying...”
It’s even worse than that, actually. The medical reports claiming that he had 3 months to live were fraudulently manipulated (the report of world-renowned oncologist who examined al-Megrahi was effectively thrown out):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2558606/posts
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