Posted on 02/08/2010 5:32:33 PM PST by Sergeant Tim
The Obama administration apparently never made or discovered a mistake not worth repeating.
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Stupid is as stupid does, that Richard Reid was read "his" rights was a poor example to follow; that too was an intelligence failure.
Reid was arrested not three months into our invasion of Afghanistan, while the hunt was still under way in Tora Bora, and several months before Jose Padilla, Binyam Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, and Ramzi Binalshibh were captured. Bush 43 could have ordered Reid turned over for military detention as his November 13, 2001 Military Order proscribed and yet he at least seemed to learn from his mistake; he ordered Padilla turned over for military detention and the rest eventually ended up at Gitmo.
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Ping!
QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Why did Obama feel it necessary to apologize to the world & degrade the U.S.?
ANSWER: Jimmy Carter had laryngitis.
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