by James Oliphant
Barack Obama's campaign released this statement as the candidate was traveling through Indiana:
"I commend the military officers who presided over this trial and served on the hearing panel under difficult and unprecedented circumstances. They and all our Armed Forces continue to serve this country with valor in the fight against terrorism. That the Hamdan trial - the first military commission trial with a guilty verdict since 9/11 - took several years of legal challenges to secure a conviction for material support for terrorism underscores the dangerous flaws in the Administration's legal framework. It's time to better protect the American people and our values by bringing swift and sure justice to terrorists through our courts and our Uniform Code of Military Justice. And while it is important to convict anyone who provides material support for terrorism, it is long past time to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the terrorists who murdered nearly 3000 Americans."
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Comments
Hear hear. That last line needs to be taped to GW Bush's forehead.
Posted by: Joe | August 6, 2008 3:45 PM
Watching Obama try to catch Bin Laden would be the height of bad comedy.
Posted by: Jeff | August 6, 2008 4:40 PM
At least Obama knows he's not hiding at the Iraq/Pakistan border.
Posted by: MBT | August 6, 2008 5:17 PM
As opposed to GW's attempts (or LACK thereof), which have been GOOD comedy. As in laughable. You see what I did there?
Posted by: Joe | August 6, 2008 5:31 PM
If Obama is elected, we'll surely see Osama in chains on 1/21/09!
Posted by: DaveB | August 6, 2008 5:31 PM
I guess Bush's AF-1 pilot needs to get a lawyer.
Posted by: TheReamer | August 6, 2008 8:24 PM
Going to the center and applaudiuing a kangaroo trial will send Barry;s #s down again.
Posted by: Dance with the ones whut brung ya, dude | August 6, 2008 9:12 PM
The height of gall is to redicule Obama about being inept in capturing bin Laden. Obama could do nothing and be no worse than Bush.
The capture will be the result of the work of the military and intelligence. What the president does is set the mission and allocate the resources. Bush could not do that because of his multiple blunders in Iraq kept him preoccupied.
Posted by: Ron M | August 6, 2008 9:22 PM
Posted by: Jeff | August 6, 2008 4:40 PM
Obama would have caught him in the first place. Not started a war against a sovereign nation that had NOT attacked us which allowed AlQaeda to spread and made the region and world less safe.
The sad irony is if we just let the Russians have Afghanistan 25 - 30 years ago, instead of funding, training and supplying AlQaeda and the Taliban, none of this would be necessary.
I guess that is what you call "unintended consequences".
Posted by: oops | August 7, 2008 10:09 AM
So what was Hamdan found guilty of??
Helping to plot 9/11?? Nope
Being a terrorist?? Nope
Being Bin-Laden's driver?? Yep.
I hope the guy driving Bush's limousine is ready for HIS war crimes trial!!!!!
Posted by: BobHusseininAtlanta | August 7, 2008 10:41 AM
Hillary was very upset with Bill for trending to the center. She had a lot of arguments ROWS about it. (Remember reading about that?)
She's more lefty than Obama. At this point, I hope she does throw down at the convention. She'd get the indy vote and the disaffected repug vote and the women vote and smart af am vote too.
I have HAD it with Obama's concessions to the evildoers.
You know, I got my Obama signs this week ( the postal delivery guy left it in the RAIN but the top cardboard became soaked and the signs inside were wrapped in plastic) but I haven't been able to get myself to put them up, NOT:.
1. when I read that Obama wants to EXPAND the war to chase Osama bin DEAD (Is this guy like the Dread Pirate Roberts? Just trot him out to scare us into letting our 'liberal' pols give more money to the military industrial complex of war profiteers and torturers?)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8B6fpFSQ
2. Not when I read that Obama is still pushing coal gassification--I wanna hear him denounce this from the floor of the convention in Denver. I wanna see solar power pushed. Not more coal use (the carbon release from digging it the way they do now and moving it uncovered causes global warming to increase).
Are they softening us up to coal gassification with all this crazy talk about off shore drilling versus tire gauges? (What a lovely distraction from solar and wind power--does anyone remember ANY coverage of Al Gore's talk about how we could get all our energy needs from one or the other?).
http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/304/
3. Not when I read that maybe he's teaming up with an up south guy as veep instead of Hillary--who can help him WIN.
I"ll put my sign up. I'll vote for the guy. But then I'm going to push for the instant run off second choice balllots in the future.
Obviously, the Democratic Party is a skeleton of what it proclaims to be.
I'll vote Obama--I ain't stupid (and I did not attend Harvard OR Yale!)
But there's something really really wrong here.
I've probably Id'd myself to the bad folks here-- (don't cut the phone trunk to my neighborhood again, okay)
Posted by: Obama needs to stop acting republican and anti Hillary or we'll lose to McCain, kids | August 7, 2008 12:21 PM
So what was Hamdan found guilty of??
Helping to plot 9/11?? Nope
Being a terrorist?? Nope
Being Bin-Laden's driver?? Yep.
I hope the guy driving Bush's limousine is ready for HIS war crimes trial!!!!!
Posted by: BobHusseininAtlanta | August 7, 2008 10:41 AM
your funny- we apprehend the guy who was OBL's bodyguard.
We bend over backwards to provide him an opportunity yo defend himself, challenge evidence, and generally allowed him a robust defense -
And your reponse is to take a weird political shot at the president?
Maybe if you throw in the fact that when apprehended this guy had 2 surface to air missles in the trunk and that he was a bodyguard for OBL- and was one of the few people allowed to carry weapons near OBL ??
Of course, fact and context aren't as much fun are they?
What will you do for fun when Bush is gone- ?
Posted by: heartburn | August 7, 2008 5:57 PM