Posted on 02/01/2009 8:22:08 PM PST by Steelfish
FEBRUARY 1, 2009
Obama's Moralizing Tone May Not Wear Well How often do Americans want to hear how misguided they were before his arrival?
By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
Two days into his presidency, Barack Obama delivered on his most celebrated and ardently pledged campaign promise -- the imposition of stringent limitations on the ways in which U.S. agents can question terror suspects, an executive order mandating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and the freezing of all detainee prosecutions.
That last request brought an eloquent reply from Col. James Pohl, Guantanamo's chief military judge, who promptly said no. He declared the directive to freeze all trials "not reasonable" -- a description that could as well apply to the whole of the administration's program for our moral cleansing and reformation in intelligence gathering.
Col. Pohl refused, specifically, to delay the Feb. 9 arraignment of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri -- accused Saudi master-planner of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 American sailors and a cause célèbre for the American Civil Liberties Union.
In its characteristically nuanced style, the ACLU declared, through executive director Anthony Romero, that the judge's ruling was the work of "Bush hangers-on in the Defense Department."
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“Time for Republicans to expose this empty-suit and call for impeachment!”
Obomber will never be circumcised...there is no just end to the pr*ck...
0be’s going to have to b0rr0w some cardigans from Jimmah and dial back the therm0stat in the 0-0ffice and start serving SPAM bef0re I’ll listen t0 an0ther 0ne 0f his pr0n0uncements.
While the economy is a convient distraction,
Obama to close Gitmo, states the War on Terror is over.
Pulling troops out of Iraq.
Talking to Iran and
will have a face-to-face meeting with his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez in April,
the list goes on.
OBAMA IS A MASSIVE HACK. A JOKE. A CLUELESS NIMROD.
AND THOSE ARE HIS STRONG POINTS.
HE IS SO WEAK, HE MAKES JOE BIDEN LOOK LIKE A GENIUS.
Now, let’s not go overboard.
Please stop understating the truth. There’s no need to whitewash the “character” of the man.
Sounds like the 0bamunist wants to form an ‘Eat Your Peas’ troika with Michael Dukakis and President Peanut Brain.
That's the first I've heard of this. Is this the end of Col. Pohl's career? Did he refuse a direct order from the CIC? The MSM has sure not reported this refusal by Col. Pohl.
Even a flatworm couldn't make Biden look like a genius.
Especially since he is building a cabinet of known liars and tax dodgers.
As a side note, caught a few minutes of Moyers interviewing some left-wingers who are now crying about us bombing Taliban in Pakistan and how terrible we are for doing it.
The liberal hand wringing will now transfer from Iraq to Afghanistan.
I would have watched more but I can only take so much of the idiot Moyers before throwing up in my mouth.
Cheers!
what you didn’t enjoy jimmy carter’s presidency?
Can someone explain this Feb 9th case to me? The judge refused to delay it... was it the Obama admin that wanted to delay it? Wasn’t Obama and other leftists the ones complaining (mostly, even I agree) about due process? So why delay the trial if the man is entitled to due process and a speedy trial? Just because they want to close a prison, a man is supposed to have justice delayed?
What am I missing?
The loonies on the left want regular criminal trials!
He is too preachy. It will catch up with him eventually.
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