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Title: Critics Bemoan Prospect of Obama Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Post by: bijou on June 27, 2009, 02:40:30 PM
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The political battle over the fate of the detainees at Gunatanamo Bay just got more contentious.

The Obama administration is considering an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees, a move that would be in line with Bush administration policy but already has drawn scorn from civil liberties groups.

"This is not change -- this is more of the same," Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in response to reports that surfaced Friday of the possible executive order. "If President Obama issues an executive order authorizing indefinite detention, he'll be repeating the same mistakes of George Bush, and his policies will be destined to fail as were his predecessor's."

He added, "Throwing people into prison without charge, conviction or providing them with a trial is about as un-American as you can get."

But former top Bush adviser Karl Rove said the news should be welcomed.

"We are, after all, in a war -- not an overseas contingency operations as some in the administration have suggested is the new title for it," he told FOX News. "And in a war, you take the people you sweep up on the battlefield and you hold them until the war is over or until they no longer represent a threat." ...
link (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/27/critics-bemoan-prospect-obama-detaining-terror-suspects-indefinitely/)

That should send the moonbats crazy.
Title: Re: Critics Bemoan Prospect of Obama Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Post by: RightCoast on June 28, 2009, 08:16:32 AM
Quote from: bijou on June 27, 2009, 02:40:30 PM
link (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/27/critics-bemoan-prospect-obama-detaining-terror-suspects-indefinitely/)

That should send the moonbats crazy crazier.


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Title: Re: Critics Bemoan Prospect of Obama Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Post by: JohnnyReb on June 28, 2009, 08:32:56 AM
"I cannot tell a lie, I lied", Obama.
Title: Re: Critics Bemoan Prospect of Obama Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Post by: NHSparky on June 28, 2009, 08:38:33 AM
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 28, 2009, 08:32:56 AM
"I cannot tell a lie, I lied", Obama.

Wait until he admits that regarding his tax policies in 2012.
Title: Re: Critics Bemoan Prospect of Obama Detaining Terror Suspects Indefinitely
Post by: thundley4 on June 28, 2009, 03:58:37 PM
Quote from: NHSparky on June 28, 2009, 08:38:33 AM
Wait until he admits that regarding his tax policies in 2012.

Why isn't anyone comparing his tax raising by the cap and tax scheme to President Bush, (the first), when he said: "Read my lips,......"?