Human Rights Activists Assail President Obama's Decision on Military Commissions

mad:
re: 'referred to Miss California as a dog. '

it's worse than that,
-Obama puts funny 'un-american' mustard on his food,.
-he works in the oval office without a jacket on..
-he got a 'special' dog for his kids
-he actually went out for a burger, and paid for it.
-he laughs at jokes

next, god forbid, he'll be eating arugula and
start wind surfing,

i wish we would get back to the days when the president cleared brush on his phony ranch

Also many of the reasons some of these detainees can't just be thrown on the federal docket is because of how long they've been there and technically they only SAY death to america but haven't actually DONE anything to advance that cause YET. But we suspect they will.

I just say like any other flips this administration has had to make because of the flawed ways the situation was handled in the previous administration, we'll have to wait and see how this plays out.

The devil is in the details.

Again, Obama now changes his mind because he sees that due to the fact of how these cases were handled before he got in office, in federal court alot of the worse ones would be released on technicalities. Some we know would instantly rejoin Al-Qaeda and commence with killing american troops.

This has happened before folks.

These are not easy issues which do not conform to idealogy. If we do what the far left wants and stick them in the federal court system, some of them are getting released. There's just no way around it. But we can't go back to how Bush did it either which was to bury them under the jail, forget about em until the war on terror is over. Whenever THAT will be...

Obama had to find a way where they have due process so their individual cases get looked at, finally let the ones go who shouldn't be there, but keep imprisoned the ones who we know will instantly be re-recruited by terrorist groups.

Far right likes to say that because Bush is out of office, why the far left keeps talking about him. Bush may be gone but Obama and the country will have to come to terms with some of his worst policy decisions for months and possibly years to come. Some of them not so easily reversed.

This is why elections matter. So many americans either weren't paying attention during the Bush years or outright didn't vote at all in those close elections. Those who are so enraged about torture now, how many of you spoke out about Gitmo, or treatment of terror suspects, or even voted in 2005 or 2000 even?

It's also true what they say that people usually get the gov't they deserve. At least people, especially younger voters are paying attention after the Obama candidacy and election.

Pam, I don't expect much from this administration in regard to woman. Chief of Staff, David Axelrod, referred to Miss California as a dog. Granted, it was in a joke, but can you image the uproar had Bush's chief of staff made the same remark.

The president frequently invokes his daughters as a reason that something should or shouldn't be done.

Don't expect him to rebuke Axelrod.

Where are the human rights activists when women under Sharia Law are beaten, stoned, lashed, honor killed (real torture)? These groups have no credibility. I don't know why they are given so much press/power. Oh, that's right. They are anti-American.

The problem with trying these cases in Federal Courts is that most of them would be thrown out due to lack of due process during the detainees' period of detention. A military tribunal could at least make some of the charges stick. Perhaps the President was not aware of how badly these cases had been mismanaged!

Cindy Shehan? where are you? We miss you? Obama needs you to camp out in front of his home to protest.

This was entirely predictable. There are and were no other options. Obama was either flat out lying all along, or he was once again, too inexperienced and plainly stupid to understand that this was always the best solution to a difficult, modern problem.
In the past these folks may have simply been killed on the battlefield..
NOW Obama will posture and pretend that what he is doing is somehow different. That is what I believe is called a distinction without a difference.
He has a history of being abjectly stupid AND a liar.
Even today he makes speeches, like at his town hall yesterday where he proclaimed that we cannot continue this unsustainable debt.
HE CREATED 75% OF THE PROBLEM in just a few short months.
Even the democrats now call the porkulus bill the "EARMARK BILL" and they laugh and think it is funny that they put one over on all of us.
Obama is a self serving, power grabbing, CORRUPT, liar who needs to be in jail for all he has done to divert US assets into the pockets of his union and other supporters.

LEt these cry babies pay for these scum bags food and boarding then they will change their tune real quick

thank you President Obama for taking us down the middle road and not to the Extreme Left like Bush went to the Extreme Right!

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Yeah that's right. So what if President Obama is doing the same things President Bush did. When the latter did them it was "far right" but when the former does them it is "in the middle".

Great job Angie!

I did not vote for President Obama but I must say that on issues of national security he has pleasantly surprised me.

Posted by: hkdakota | May 15, 2009 8:46:14 AM
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dkdakota, I hate to admit it, but I agree with. At least on this issue I have to give POTUS props for doing the right thing.

Is it true that we actually beheaded some people, oh wait that was the terorists.

Geez, didn't the media call these military tribunals when Bush was in charge? Why don't we just start calling them tupperware parties now that Obama's in charge. Hey media, your bias is showing!

let us not forget
WE AT WAR
with an enemy that is crazy
no common sense, just hate!

please challenge newscasterS to mention every day,

JEHAD LOVES KILLING WOMEN AND CHILDREN

we are next any day now!!!

warning from an 82 year old veteran

jhw, how do you feel about the ACLU using your money to oppose the president on this issue?

Obama is now killing civilians with Predator assassination strikes?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena

if Obama starts a needless war like Bush & Cheney, you'll have something to rag about,
I notive you didn't mention the Iraqi 'body count' of civilians.......

"Human Rights Groups" ? How about "Radical Leftist groups".

* In a March 19 speech, Obama said: “Let me be clear: Ending this war is not going to be easy. There will be dangers involved—just as there would be dangers involved with staying indefinitely. We will have to make tactical adjustments, listening to our commanders on the ground, to ensure that our interests in a stable Iraq are met, and to make sure that our troops are secure.”

* During a March 2 Washington Post foreign policy “Q&A,” when asked what size his proposed “over-the-horizon” force in Iraq would be, Obama responded: “The precise size of the residual force will depend on consultations with our military commanders and will depend on the circumstances on the ground, including the willingness of the Iraqi government to move toward political accommodation.”

* During an interview on the February 5 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends, when asked, “[I]s there anything that would change your position about pulling out troops … if he [Gen. David Petraeus] convinces you that we’re on the right track?” Obama began his response by saying, “Well, what I’ve been very clear about is that I will always listen to commanders on the ground.”

What they call now the 'hard left" is what he was courting back in the primaries, saying everything they wanted to hear to help him slain that 'terrible monster/racist/liar' Clinton.
Jon Stewart had him last night in video back then lying to our faces on every issue he has reversed now. A politician lying to get elected. What a novel concept.

"... the real perpetrator of 9/11"

Which was--Afghanistan? How many Afghans were among the nineteen?

Or was it Pakistan, where Obama is now killing civilians with Predator assassination strikes?