Posted on 03/07/2013 10:30:45 PM PST by Nachum
He is an unlawful enemy combatant, captured on foreign soil while engaged in hostilities against the United States. He belongs in the military justice system and detention facility established by Congress in accordance with the Constitution and the Supreme Court. Yet President Barack Obama has brought Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, to face a civilian trial on U.S. soil in federal court in New York City.
In so doing, President Obama has defied the express will of Congress, which already refused to transfer foreign terror suspects from the Guantánamo Bay prison to the U.S. at the beginning of Obama’s first term. The decision to bring Ghaith to New York is just the latest in a series of executive actions taken by President Obama that contradict the explicit intent of the legislature. It is also an action in pursuit of a policy doomed to fail.
The extreme left has continued to resist the idea of separate military and civilian justice systems in the war on terror (a term the Obama administration long since abandoned). The Obama administration’s embrace of that view led it to propose that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 plot, be tried in New York City in 2009.
That plan was scrapped, but Obama remained so committed to that radical view that his administration chose to accelerate the targeted killing of terrorists abroad rather than detaining, interrogating, and trying them in the manner established during the George W. Bush administration. Now, emboldened by his re-election, President Obama seeks to use the Abu Ghaith trial to establish a new precedent for future administrations--without regard to the consequences, both for our national security and our system of justice.
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What is it going to take to impeach the guy. Anonymous hacking his computer and downloading secret video andemail communications between himself and terrorists, al.Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood?
Too bad the bin laden son in law isn’t an American citizen or we could kill him with a drone in NYC.
He is not impeachable. There is nothing he could do that once the House started impeachment hearings, wouldn’t result in racial attacks on whites.
But, he’s not a dictator>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Time for the house to rev up tose impeachment engines, and also time for the Conservatives to rev up the election machine to take the Senate in 2014. With control of the House and Senate, Conservatives can get rid of this peckerwood president two years early.
THAT SHOULD BE OUR GOAL!!!
There is nothing he could do that once the House started impeachment hearings, wouldn’t result in racial attacks on whites.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Bring it.
He is impeachable.
President Obama has defied the express will of Congress,
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Paging Congress. SOS SOS SOS 911 911 911
By trying this scum in NYC, isn’t Hussein placing a bulls eye on NYC for retribution? Hasn’t NYC suffered enough?
Why not Chicago? Don’t they have Fed courts there?
He is a dictator until our Congress decides that they actually have some power to prevent such things.
If anything bad happens because of this in New York, you can bet that somebody else will be to blame.
It’s against 0bama’s Muslim faith to consider any Muslim an ‘enemy combatant’. After all, he is one himself.
Obama bin Laden isn’t a dictator, he is a terrorist.
When your leader has to reassure the people that he’s not a dictator - he’s a dictator.
So he declared open season on US citizens by okaying the use of drones but wants this killer to stand trial?
——He is an unlawful enemy combatant-—
No, he is not. There is no war, there is no enemy. There is no combat. There are no combatants.
There are criminals committing criminal acts. The legal system deals with criminals, not the military system. Lawyers trump generals who can perform no action without the permission of the lawyers.
In the modern world, there is no need for a military nor defense with arms because the courts stand ready to accomolish the action in a completely legal and humane manner. /s
There is no more war. Vietnam was the be all and end all.
“...he’s a dictator.”
Just like Nixon not being a crook! n/s
Not impeachable.
There isn’t a pair of balls anywhere in the House that are big enough to even try.
Not one Congress critter there who wants to become a target for the storm that would follow such an attempt.
Certainly there are enough thing s that are impeachable to dump on him, but it won’t happen.
Try him outdoors on the lawn of the White House.
Are you saying we should put nobama on trial?
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