Posted on 06/17/2010 4:40:12 AM PDT by reaganrevolutionin2010
Despite a resolution by Congress authorizing war against those responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama’s nominee to be the number two official at the Justice Department, James Cole, wrote an op-ed in 2002 likening the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the domestic crimes of murder, rape and child abuse, while arguing that the attackers ought to be treated like domestic criminals.
“But the attorney general is not a member of the military fighting a war--he is a prosecutor fighting crime,” Cole wrote in a Sept. 9, 2002 article in Legal Times that critiqued the way then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft was handling the 9/11 case.
“For all the rhetoric about war, the Sept. 11 attacks were criminal acts of terrorism against a civilian population, much like the terrorist acts of Timothy McVeigh in blowing up the federal building in Oklahoma City, or of Omar Abdel-Rahman in the first effort to blow up the World Trade Center,” said Cole. “The criminals responsible for these horrible acts were successfully tried and convicted under our criminal justice system, without the need for special procedures that altered traditional due process rights.
“Our country has faced many forms of devastating crime, including the scourge of the drug trade, the reign of organized crime, and countless acts of rape, child abuse, and murder. The acts of Sept. 11 were horrible, but so are these other things,” Cole wrote in his op-ed.
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Not surprised.
Not at all.
A nuclear detonation in DC would not be an act of war to these morons.
Why?
Because the destruction of he United States and, especially American Exceptionalism, is GOAL NUMBER ONE to Team 0bama.
another STUPID appointee!!
I don’t know what is more amazing to me... the seemingly endless number of liberal hate-America idiots there are infesting this country, or the fact that this incompetent finger-pointing a$$ clown seems to know them all and is appointing them to his regime.
Where’s that General’s thread about removing this clown and his entourage from office......?
He, and others of his kind, fail to understand that the INTENTION of the attackers was to kill 50,000 or more people at one blow.
Instead, he simply observes that the enemy made a mistake or two and considers that a victory on our side. Janet Napolitano does the same, as does Eric Holder.
In fact, Janet has been worse ~ she claimed credit for what passengers on an airplane did to the terrorist trying to blow up his crotch!
Cole, Napolitano and Holder aren't normal people! They should not be allowed into the power-wielding centers of our society. Better they be returned to their private pursuits where they may be treated with drugs or chiropractic until they feel better about things.
I fully trust the words of the principled Al Kida over some addle-brained ideologue retard chosen by “The Won”.
And as that famous philosopher from the 20th Century, Bugs Bunny, once said: “Nyaaa, you do realize...this is war.”
curious to know what he would call the pearl harbor attack...
obama is not going to pick anyone who disagrees with him.
“A nuclear detonation in DC would not be an act of war to these morons.”
The way our government is acting, a nuclear detonation in DC would be a gift to the American people.
Unbelieveable. These people are sick in the head.
Why is it stupid from obama’s point of view?
Another idiot takes his place on the ship of fools.
This is beyond stupid
**Why is it stupid from obama’s point of view?**
I don’t give a damn about OZero’s point of view.
Only from mine... and apparently several others on this thread!!
I would not be surprised if that arrogant p o s found that funny
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