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2009-11-14 Home Front: WoT

Lieberman: Bringing terror suspects to U.S. for trial 'inconceivable'

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I think Joe is one of the few Dems left with any honor, thus it seemed just as whacky to him, as the rest of us, that anyone, let along the Pseudo-POTUS would conceive of ANYTHING so whacky.

Posted by BigEd 2009-11-14 00:52|| 2009-11-14 00:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing wacky about it. It's an indirect means to attack the Bush Administration and people who took the war to the enemy. Guess who'll be interrogated by defense lawyers. This is the alternative to Senate hearings that the Donks wanted to crush their real enemies.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-14 07:10|| 2009-11-14 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 You are correct Procopius2k. Nothing good will come from this and the terrorists are very likely to be acquitted in the very city to which they brought carnage.

Potentially unlawful (by US civil law standards) enhanced interrogation techniques and a jury of their mooslim peers? It is so rediculous. We'd be better off if they simply just let these buggers go.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-14 07:36|| 2009-11-14 07:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Only to real Americans, Joe.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-11-14 13:49|| 2009-11-14 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 "Stupid is as stupid does."

What I find most disturbing is the NYT editorial praising 0bama/H0older's decision here. Then when I read some of the comments for the editorial, I threw up in my mouth not a little but a lot. The people who support this seem to do so primarily as a means for bringing Bush/Cheney to task for "crimes" against humanity and the Constitution (which evidently they seem to think is some sort of mass suicide pact). In other words, it's entirely and solely motivated by political payback.

Can you imagine what would happen if one of these guys walked free because of some legal technicality? I shudder to think.

Posted by eltoroverde 2009-11-14 16:59|| 2009-11-14 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Can you imagine what would happen if one of these guys walked free because of some legal technicality? I shudder to think.

Yes. And it would destroy the judiciary and respect the vast majority of Americans have held for the institutions of law. They'll view it rightfully as degenerated by a self selected group of elites who 'know better'. The legal caste has forgotten Jefferson's admonition that government, thus the law, derives it power from the consent of the governed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-14 23:17|| 2009-11-14 23:17|| Front Page Top

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