Cheat Sheet

I can't imagine what he was thinking when O said they would have civil trials and all rights of citizens. Talk about not being rational. The left has no clue how things work and have lots of time to sit around and think up incoherent policy they will vote for.

Exactly! If they don't want to interrogate them effectively then we had better have damn good intelligence and then we can just lock them away or shoot them on the spot since we wont' need them. They just belly ache from prison anyhow. They repeat they would rather die in the name of Allah. So be it.

The military is not allowed to execute prisoners on a battlefield any moreso than a policeman is allowed to execute a suspect that was fleeing and is apprehended. It is a blatant war crime and if you remember hearing about the Malmedy Massacre I wouldn't think you would want something like that to be policy. The "not wearing uniforms" crap is a cop-out and gives NOBODY any more right to execute them than if they were enlisted soldiers in another country's army. If you think otherwise then you wouldn't have any problem with the British Army executing American minutemen during the American "Revolution" because they also fought wearing civilian clothes instead of a uniform. Or Confederate pieces of s**t who oftentimes fought wearing civilian clothes because their wannabe "country" was too backwards and un-industrialized to provide its military with uniforms all of the time, so some went wearing no shoes and the clothes they arrived in. So it's OK for Union soldiers capturing them to just say "Ah, well, they aren't wearing uniforms so it's kosher to just line them up and shoot 'em" ?? You guys are out of your effing minds.

I think some of you that post on here would be more comfortable living in Nazi Germany in the 1930s but what am I saying? America is practically that way now anyway with a government that can wiretap your phones, read your mail before it gets to you, intercept your e-mail, arrest/kidnap you for nothing and ignore habeus corpus, torture you then dump you on the side of the road and say "Whoops, we got the wrong guy". It can go see what library books you check out then bar the librarian from ever telling you (not that this would appear to affect some of you anyway who probably haven't opened anything with pages unless it was Hustler) and can demand your medical records. It executes retarded people and mentally ill who don't understand the gravity of their crime. It spies on peaceful protesters. So keep working at it America! You're almost there. Any month now we should be able to officially change the country's name to the Fourth Reich.

It is. Bush in blackface, that's about it.

"I'm betting that President Obama will keep a lot of Bush's policies now that HE is responsible for keeping us safe."

I'm betting that President Obama will keep a lot of Bush's policies also but because Obama like Bush is a neo-con puppet of the elite, working for the same agenda. And he's already SAID he's keeping most everything intact.

continues the Cheneyite policy of using the "state secrets" crutch to avoid revealing information that would be embarrassing:
"The Obama administration invoked the same "state secrets" privilege as its predecessor in federal court in San Francisco yesterday in opposing the reinstatement of a lawsuit that alleges that a Boeing Co. unit flew people to countries where they were tortured as part of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program. The Justice Department's stance on the case came despite a pledge by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., first at his confirmation hearing and again yesterday in a statement, to review all assertions of the state secrets privilege... The Bush administration argued that the lawsuit against Jeppesen DataPlan, a Boeing unit based in Colorado, threatened the country's national security interests. In court yesterday, the panel of three judges asked the government if there was any change in its position because of the new administration. A Justice Department attorney said the government stands by its brief, which was filed by the Bush administration."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/09/AR200902 0902423.html

reinforces the message that they are continuing the "state secrets" cop out by invoking it a second time the following month:
"Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Obama administration of forsaking campaign rhetoric and adopting the same expansive arguments that his predecessor used to cloak some of the most sensitive intelligence-gathering programs of the Bush White House. The first signs have come just weeks into the new administration, in a case filed by an Oregon charity suspected of funding terrorism. President Obama's Justice Department not only sought to dismiss the lawsuit by arguing that it implicated "state secrets," but also escalated the standoff -- proposing that government lawyers might take classified documents from the court's custody to keep the charity's representatives from reviewing them. The suit by the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation has proceeded further than any other in challenging the use of warrantless wiretaps, threatening to expose the inner workings of that program. It is the second time the new Justice Department has followed its predecessors in claiming the state-secrets privilege, which would allow the government to exclude evidence in a civil case on grounds that it jeopardizes national security... "There has to be other ways to protect secret information without having to block accountability," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine. He said that "state secrets" has become a sort of "talismanic phrase" uttered by government officials who want to dispose of inconvenient or troubling challenges to their authority... In the al-Haramain case, Obama has not only maintained the Bush administration approach, but the dispute has intensified, with the Justice Department warning that if the judge does not change his mind, authorities could spirit away the top-secret documents. "Any way you look at it, it's pretty remarkable," said Jon B. Eisenberg, an attorney for al-Haramain. "This is an executive branch threat to exercise control over a judicial branch function."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/24/AR200903 2403501.html?hpid=topnews

continues the policy of having the C.I.A. kidnap people ("renditions"):
"Under executive orders issued by Obama recently, the CIA still has authority to carry out what are known as renditions, secret abductions and transfers of prisoners to countries that cooperate with the United States. Current and former U.S. intelligence officials said that the rendition program might be poised to play an expanded role going forward because it was the main remaining mechanism -- aside from Predator missile strikes -- for taking suspected terrorists off the street."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-rendition1-20 09feb01,0,4661244.story?page=1

sides with the Bush (Cheney) regime regarding detainees captured in Afghanistan lacking rights:
"The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys. "The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5inrssFARYO4US7mMu27sqB9tc 7WwD96FKURG0

intelligence policy from Cheney regime to remain largely intact and Obama voted to enhance N.S.A. domestic spying powers

http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122636726473415991.html

Not reading valuable information when it is painstakingly spoonfed to you tells you that you have s**t for brains and the attention span of a gnat.

Sorry but not everything can be put in neat little 30-second soundbites to compensate for your A.D./H.D.