Was not this -- the "extra-judicial" killings of people, who have never been convicted of anything -- among the top charges against Bush? Something, that pro-Obama crowd were HOPING will CHANGE...
Not a chance... Instead of trying to detain the ALLEGEDLY bad guys, Obama administration increasingly tries to just kill them:
with deadly drones:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/11/obama-national-security-drone-guantanamo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10758876
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184581
as well as with CIA operatives (who could, unlike drones, take prisoners, but aren't tasked with that):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101101/cm_atlantic/foiledbombplotsparkscallsforexpandedmilitarypresenceinyemen5593
Is Obama simply trying to be "more like other countries"? India, for example, takes no chances of getting stuck with prisoners -- by taking NO PRISONERS:
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~mi/th/india.html
Knowing the alternative, will haters of Bush apologize to the Republican President -- for calling him names over HUMANE treatment of captives with such dubious legal status?
No one was tortured in Guantanamo. No one.
There is no 'battlefield' in Yemen... Nor in Pakistan. There are people -- civilians -- with some terrorists living among them. According to Bush-era Illiberals, killing such terrorists -- without proper trial -- was a travesty. Why are Obama-era Illiberals silent on the matter?
Demo Man, no, Bush accumulated several hundred prisoners in Guantanamo -- and caught plenty of flack at home and abroad for keeping them there without trial.
Obama's doctrine is to just kill them... This should be FAR more flack-catching, but, for some reason, is not...
Colleen, of course, one would be hard-pressed to find Obama's own position on most things -- his lack of substantive details is now part of the living legend. But his supporters where quite adamant. Their protesting Bush and Guantanamo, while denouncing McCain as "McSame", implied, that Obama -- in their opinion -- will be different.
Things did change, indeed -- instead of detaining alleged terrorists, we are killing them now. Is the change for the better, though -- in your opinion?
Not a chance... Instead of trying to detain the ALLEGEDLY bad guys, Obama administration increasingly tries to just kill them:
with deadly drones:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/apr/11/obama-national-security-drone-guantanamo
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10758876
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=184581
as well as with CIA operatives (who could, unlike drones, take prisoners, but aren't tasked with that):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20101101/cm_atlantic/foiledbombplotsparkscallsforexpandedmilitarypresenceinyemen5593
Is Obama simply trying to be "more like other countries"? India, for example, takes no chances of getting stuck with prisoners -- by taking NO PRISONERS:
http://www.cs.umb.edu/~mi/th/india.html
Knowing the alternative, will haters of Bush apologize to the Republican President -- for calling him names over HUMANE treatment of captives with such dubious legal status?
No one was tortured in Guantanamo. No one.
There is no 'battlefield' in Yemen... Nor in Pakistan. There are people -- civilians -- with some terrorists living among them. According to Bush-era Illiberals, killing such terrorists -- without proper trial -- was a travesty. Why are Obama-era Illiberals silent on the matter?
Demo Man, no, Bush accumulated several hundred prisoners in Guantanamo -- and caught plenty of flack at home and abroad for keeping them there without trial.
Obama's doctrine is to just kill them... This should be FAR more flack-catching, but, for some reason, is not...
Colleen, of course, one would be hard-pressed to find Obama's own position on most things -- his lack of substantive details is now part of the living legend. But his supporters where quite adamant. Their protesting Bush and Guantanamo, while denouncing McCain as "McSame", implied, that Obama -- in their opinion -- will be different.
Things did change, indeed -- instead of detaining alleged terrorists, we are killing them now. Is the change for the better, though -- in your opinion?