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2009-11-18 Home Front: WoT
Obama on terror trials: KSM will die
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Posted by  2009-11-18 14:25|| || Front Page|| [8 views ]  Top

#1 I think we already concluded---from the actions of the AG that he's appointed, what respect Obama has for your legal system.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-18 14:40||   2009-11-18 14:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Its a good thing that since the war on terror is now the prosecution for initiators of man made disasters that there is lawyer in the White House, a constitutional lawyer at that, because if lawfare is going to be the new course than it just makes sense...wait what'd he say? Dammit.
Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-18 15:36||   2009-11-18 15:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I didn't vote for the man, but I wanted him to work out.

He's becoming a parody of a bad president.
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-11-18 16:55||   2009-11-18 16:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I am not a lawyer, but I've watched a lot of TV shows about courts, and I read overlawyered.com.
Seems to me that a good defense lawyer could get the whole case thrown out on Obama's statements alone. How can a jury render an impartial decision when the President of the United States has said that KSM is guilty, and that he will be executed! Talk about influencing the jury pool!
Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia  2009-11-18 17:20||   2009-11-18 17:20|| Front Page Top

#5 And, because someone has to say it: Just imagine if Bush had done that.
Posted by Angie Schultz 2009-11-18 18:03||   2009-11-18 18:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Its not law enforcement, this is a military matter. Damned scumbag lawyers Obama and Holder.

There go our civil liberties, destroyed by the precedents this case will set by forcing military tribunal techniques into the criminal courts.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed pleaded guilty eleven months ago and asked for the death penalty at his tribunal.

Why did they not accept it and get it over with? What is Obama doing, why did he block that and why is he going with the most stupid and dragged out way he could have done this?
Posted by Jeager Panda5130 2009-11-18 19:22||   2009-11-18 19:22|| Front Page Top

#7 If the President of the United States, formally the most powerful man in the world, declares that "New York will feel better about it when he’s put to death" how can KSM possibly get a fair trial in New York City, much less anywhere in the world?

Else, what is the point of the trial?
Posted by Kelly 2009-11-18 19:47||   2009-11-18 19:47|| Front Page Top

#8 What is Obama doing, why did he block that and why is he going with the most stupid and dragged out way he could have done this?

That's a rhetorical question, right?
Posted by Woozle Uneter9007 2009-11-18 20:14||   2009-11-18 20:14|| Front Page Top

#9 O stepped in it this time. The cop in Cambridge was little league. Now he gave the defense a big a$$ed gift.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-11-18 21:30||   2009-11-18 21:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Nixon made a mistake when he opined that Charles Manson was guilty. This is about ten times worse.

Prediction: KSM gets acquitted on a technicality and then deported to Pakistan to 'face charges'.
Posted by Pappy 2009-11-18 22:32||   2009-11-18 22:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Where he will be convicted and sentenced to time served, Pappy?
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2009-11-18 22:49||   2009-11-18 22:49|| Front Page Top

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