Posted on 09/13/2009 8:00:55 AM PDT by AmericaTalks
Everyone remembers where they were on that beautiful September morning in 2001, when almost 3000 of our fellow citizens were brutally murdered in the most horrific attack on our country since Pearl Harbor. The memories of that terrible day are forever etched in the minds and hearts of most Americans.
The current administration, however, is defecating on the graves of those who lost their lives by diminishing the importance of fighting the war on the radical Islamic forces that would seek to do us harm again.
Barack Obama is hell-bent on closing Guantanamo, and bringing the detainees to the shores of the United States, putting them in prisons largely reserved for common criminals. Many of these detainees will be given rights to challenge their detention, and some will be released, where they will be free to plot further attacks on our country. Even those who remain confined will have the ability to communicate with members of sleeper cells operating within the United States.
Obama is also planning on giving rights to detainees being held at the America-run prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. They will be allowed to call witnesses and present evidence in their defense.
Subsequent to 9/11, the Bush administration took steps to help prevent another attack by implementing policies to help gain valuable information regarding future plots. These policies included tactics that some have referred to as torture. We now know that the use of waterboarding on such terrorists as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed resulted in information which did indeed help to foil plans by terrorists to strike America again. These tactics have now been discontinued by the current administration.
In separate interviews with Newsmax, former counterterrorism experts Ken Clizbe and Michael Scheuer indicated that we are now woefully unprepared with regards to the terror threat to America.
Clizbe says it is "indisputable" that moves by Obama with regards to intelligence agents have undermined the global war on terror. With Obama allowing Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the interrogation of terrorists detainees by the CIA. Scheuer said "Mister Obama doesn't appear to have a clue about what the world is and how it works. He's surrounded himself with surrenderists left over from the Clinton administration. And I think he really is a man who doesn't have much interest in America. He appears to be more concerned with what the world thinks of him. "
Obama has diminished the memories of those who lost their lives on that fateful day in 2001 by putting an end to the terms 'war on terror', and 'terrorist attack', and replacing them with 'overseas contingency operation' and 'man-made disaster'. And his speech on the anniversary of the attacks in which he emphasized public service over the remembrance of our fellow citizens who died, insults the families and friends who lost their loved ones.
It is truly unfortunate that due to Obama's attempt to placate the terrorists and their sympathizers, combined with his arrogance in building his legacy, he may actually be helping to create further national days of mourning in the United States for years to come.
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