EDITORIAL: Is Obama a war criminal yet?--Liberal double-standard is in full view over Gitmo

The Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2011 | Editorial

[jazusamo]

President Obama quietly signed an executive order on Monday instituting a system for indefinitely holding terrorist detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo), Cuba. The administration also announced that terrorist trials by military commission would recommence. This is a win for U.S. security, but the country has paid a heavy price for Mr. Obama’s on-the-job training in counterterrorism.

The low-key announcements stand in marked contrast with the bombast with which Mr. Obama approached this issue just a few years ago. During the 2008 presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama harshly criticized President George W. Bush’s detainee policies. When he took office, Mr. Obama theatrically announced that he would close Gitmo in a year and find a way to give the terror detainees the full due-process rights enjoyed by American citizens. In so doing, he legitimized the complaints of the worst critics of American counterterrorism policies, including the terrorists themselves.

Two years later, some learning appears to have occurred at the White House. The president’s hasty “close Gitmo” pledge foundered on practical and political grounds. Contrary to the story line peddled by anti-war alarmists, the Bush administration already had released most of the detainees that had been held there, and those who remained were the hard cases who truly threatened U.S. national security. Trying the detainees in civilian courts raised a multitude of nettlesome questions about public evidence, speedy trials, Miranda warnings and the other aspects of due process that didn’t support the Bush administration’s warfighting approach.

[radioone]

I hope the liberals heads explode.

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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Pentagon attack, Sept 11, 2001

[zwerni]

The boy president strikes again... yet another campaign promise down the drain and another feather in Bush’s cap.

[ETL]

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot

[allmendream]

I hope they primary him!

[NoLibZone]

He does near daily predator strikes on civilians in Pakistan.

and:
In Afghanistan:

Karzai rejected the Petraeus apology for the killing of nine boys

[jazusamo]

Most appropriate posts.

Terrorists (both old and new) have a friend in high places now.

[CrazyIvan]

Was at McDonald's today and CNN was on. Couldn't hear the
commentator, but the piece was on Gitmo. The camera was
showing some terrible little hurricane fence cell with only
a plastic tray on a barrel in one corner. The camera went
too far to one side, however, and you could tell that it was
just a corridor for going into a secure area. The tray was
probably to empty your pockets before going in. No attempt
to miss lead here!

[jazusamo]

Thanks for relating that. The enemedia will go to most any length to support the liberal leftist agenda.

[mirkwood]

[Calusa]

The widening and intensifying use of drone aircraft as a counterterrorism tool was another.

I read something to the effect that Rahm Emmnuel, now Mayor of Chicago, would get all worked up when Obama and him targeted Afghah-ni nationals for assassination by drone. It's probably for the best he's not going to the royal wedding because there's a good chance when he set foot in Europe he could be arrested and brought before the UN war crimes tribunal in Brussels like Pinochet and Milosovic.

[Clock King]

They gotta have brains before their heads can explode.

[Oceander]

According to the standards liberals applied to Bush, yes, Obama is a war-criminal.

[BenLurkin]

bttt

[BobL]

“I hope the liberals heads explode.”

Wishful thinking. Liberals look at EVERYTHING politically. They are not about to have a problem with Obama keeping Gitmo open...that issue in now “non-operative” as a Clinton person once said when caught lying. The issue served its purpose, which was to damage Bush and help the Democrats get power. As I understand liberals, they are probably quite happy those animals will stay in Gitmo and stay out of the way.

[4Liberty]

[Blue Collar Christian]

Sam Peckinpah style!

[Blue Collar Christian]

[According to the standards liberals applied to Bush, yes, Obama is a war-criminal.]

If it weren’t for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.

[oyez]

It's probably for the best he's not going to the royal wedding because there's a good chance when he set foot in Europe he could be arrested and brought before the UN war crimes tribunal in Brussels

That would save me from the dementia that would result from that event..