When will President Obama stop blaming President Bush for his problems?
When will President Obama accept responsibility for his policies slowing and delaying hiring and thus the highest unemployment in decades?
The State Department should have pulled the underwear bomber’s multiple entry visa as soon as his father told embassy (State Department) personnel that he was a threat to America.
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to divert blame by saying terrorism is caused by poverty. This is a lie, based on leftist ideology, not the facts. The underwear bomber’s father is one of the riches men in Nigeria, and richer than more than 90% of Americans.
Michael Leiter, the director of the National Counter Terrorism Center, went on a ski vacation the day after the Christmas Day attempt to blow up the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.
He must have believed Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security, when she said “the system worked!”
The person who made the decision to give the underwear bomber a lawyer, when he wasn’t entitled to one committed treason. That person effectively ended all possible interrogation of the underwear bomber. This action clearly provided “aid and comfort” to our enemies in a time of war.
That person should take Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute lawyers who gave advise to the CIA regarding “enhanced interrogation techniques”. That person probably should consider advise Attorney General Eric Holder to cease his efforts to criminalize policy differences with a previous administration.
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.”
The above paragraph is the Constitutional definition of treason which limits treason to 3 offenses:
The first two are pretty straight forward. If you joined Al-Qaeda, you would be guilty of adhering to an enemy of the United States and if you attacked a building, ship, soldiers, sailors or aircraft of the United States you would be guilty of levying war against the United States.
Giving “Aid and Comfort” to our enemies is much broader. Fund raising for an enemy would obviously qualify. Helping an enemy avoid capture would also qualify.
President Bush gave enemy combatants “Prisoner of War”status, even though they did not qualify under the Geneva Conventions. Was that giving “Aid and Comfort” to our enemies?
The Geneva Conventions say that suspected unlawful combatants should face a military tribunal that would determine if they were:
The Geneva Conventions don’t require trial by jury in a civilian court. Is giving enemy combatants trial by jury in a civilian court giving them “aid and comfort”?
If the Attorney General were to put someone on trial and the prosecution was ineffective and does not result in a conviction and the judges orders the prisoner released and he once again fights against the United States, will the Attorney General be guilty of treason?
Are the Bush and Obama Administration officials, who released detainees to Yemen who then planned the December 25th attempt to blow up a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, guilty of treason or just stupidity?
See http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29993.html for
“7 stories Barack Obama doesn’t want told” on Politico.com.
Attorney General Eric Holder must have an agenda to put Khalid Sheik Mohammad on trial in Federal Court. Khalid Sheik Mohammad had previously asked to plead guilty in a military tribunal and asked to be executed. Why is a Federal Court trial necessary?
So, what is Eric Holder up to?
Major Hasan created “Obama’s 9/11″. How will President Obama respond?
Will he allow the Army to continue its “politically correct” policies that kept it from court martialing Major Hasan or even dismissing him from service as being unfit for service, because he was part of a protected minority (a Muslim)?
Will President Obama admit that we are really fighting Muslim terrorists?
My first thought after hearing that Army Major Malik Nidal Hasan was wounded and is still alive is that after his court martial and execution, he should be buried in a pig skin.
Burying him in a pig skin will send a message to future terrorists. (Muslims believe that being buried in a pig skin will send them straight to hell; no 72 virgins.)
43 U.S. Troops Have Died in Afghanistan Since Gen. McChrystal Called for Reinforcements and President Obama goes off to Copenhagen, Denmark to lobby for the 2016 Olympics.
If we aren’t going to fight the war properly, they maybe we shouldn’t be fighting it at all. That was the sin of the Vietnam War.
One could argue that we won in Afghanistan, since we have already removed the Taliban from power. Similarly, we won in Vietnam and signed the Paris Peace Accords. The problem was when was when the enemy kept fighting, Congress cut off funding.
I certainly hope President Obama doesn’t turn Afghanistan into another Vietnam!