McCain Camp Blasts Obama's Foreign Policy
From CBS News’ John Bentley and Allison O'Keefe:
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. – In a scathing rebuttal to remarks Barack Obama made about granting prisoners at Guantanamo Bay habeas corpus rights, John McCain’s top foreign policy advisers called Obama’s ideas a “policy of delusion” that are a “perfect manifestation of a September 10th mindset.”
“Barack Obama's belief that we should treat terrorists as nothing more than common criminals demonstrates a stunning and alarming misunderstanding of the threat we face from radical Islamic extremism,” said McCain’s Director of Foreign Policy, Randy Scheunemann.
Obama said yesterday he supported criminal trials, as opposed to military tribunals, for captured terrorists. “In previous terrorist attacks -- for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial,” Obama said. “They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated. And the fact that the administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world, and given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.'”
But former CIA director and McCain adviser James Woolsey called the trials of the terrorists responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center “a miserable failure” because the criminal trials withheld pertinent information from the government. “What Sen. Obama said that this is the right approach - the way we went about it in the ‘93 bombing was the correct approach - shows a very deep first ignorance of the fact and very, very dangerous policy,” added former Navy secretary John Lehman, another McCain adviser.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX. – In a scathing rebuttal to remarks Barack Obama made about granting prisoners at Guantanamo Bay habeas corpus rights, John McCain’s top foreign policy advisers called Obama’s ideas a “policy of delusion” that are a “perfect manifestation of a September 10th mindset.”
“Barack Obama's belief that we should treat terrorists as nothing more than common criminals demonstrates a stunning and alarming misunderstanding of the threat we face from radical Islamic extremism,” said McCain’s Director of Foreign Policy, Randy Scheunemann.
Obama said yesterday he supported criminal trials, as opposed to military tribunals, for captured terrorists. “In previous terrorist attacks -- for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial,” Obama said. “They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated. And the fact that the administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world, and given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say, 'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.'”
But former CIA director and McCain adviser James Woolsey called the trials of the terrorists responsible for the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center “a miserable failure” because the criminal trials withheld pertinent information from the government. “What Sen. Obama said that this is the right approach - the way we went about it in the ‘93 bombing was the correct approach - shows a very deep first ignorance of the fact and very, very dangerous policy,” added former Navy secretary John Lehman, another McCain adviser.
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See all 62 CommentsThis is un-American, and I question the Patriotism of those in favor of eliminating our CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!
The Republican Party represents Power, Greed and Corruption.
FDR is rolling in his grave.
FDR is rolling in his grave.
Posted by mbcsmith at 02:26 PM : Jun 17, 2008
GITMO is US soil. The US Embassy in Russia, Italy, Greece and Iraq are US soil.
So the convicted 1993 WTC Bombing terrorists should get a retrial. Gee - 4 of those terrorist were convicted in a year and a half.
Steve Clemons writes:
Woolsey was the first person on national television on September 11, 2001 to allege the connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda without disclosing on these shows his legal relationship representing Ahmed Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress.
He is also someone who seems to see no conflict between being a pro-war pundit pretending to be on objective commentator and a war profiteer who is pocketing a lot of money from contracting related to war activities.
Destroy BushWorld, bring back America.
If you%u2019re paranoid corrupt Republican Government should want to declare YOU as a anti-American Terrorist they could pick you up and hold you forever without cause, or reason.
Then, who is going to help you?
The Republicans have endangered every American with their Imperialistic Actions by invading and occupying Iraq, and never apprehending Osama Bin Laden.
Arguing against basic human rights is like, lets say, arguing against Global Warming, it''s feudal.
We''ve seen how terribly wrong for America the post-911 neocon mindset is. This puts him more with Dubya and on the wrong track of where the American public wants our country.
Why is Bush (and now his brother John McSame) so destine to eliminate the Writ of Habaeus Corpus?
The Supreme Court didn%u2019t take away anyone%u2019s right to investigate, apprehend, and charge (with crime) anyone (in the world) that poses a threat to the US.
What is up with Club Gitmo???
Explain.
INDEED, THEY ARE- AND WHY DUMMOCRATS THINK THEY AREN''T- IS BAFFLING.
More Propaganda will convince Americans that a bad Foreign Policy is a Good One.
NOT A MILLIONN McCAIN''S CAN CONVINCE ME HIS POLICY''S ARE RIGHT POLICY.
%u201CRush when they, you know, them, ask why are the Conservatives in favor of eliminating the Writ of Habeas Corpus what we supposed to say? Rush???%u201D
%u201CWell folks, ahem, what you do is when a liberal contests Bush%u2019s stance on human rights for ENEMY, KILLER, TERRORISTS, that only want to destroy our great American Conservative Lifestyle, Morals, Beliefs, Principals, and Values! all you have to do is just smile and laugh it off he, he, he my friendthzzzz%u201D
OBAMA -0
OBAMA = 0
QUALIFICATIONS TO LEAD A COUNTRY:
OBAMA = 0
...The question of the detainees'' -- and the government''s -- rights is a matter about which intelligent people of good will can differ.
The purpose of a writ of habeas corpus is to cause a government to release a prisoner or show through due process why the prisoner should be held. Of Guantanamo''s approximately 270 detainees, many certainly are dangerous "enemy combatants." Some probably are not. None will be released by the court''s decision, which does not even guarantee a right to a hearing. Rather, it guarantees only a right to request a hearing. Courts retain considerable discretion regarding such requests....
No state power is more fearsome than the power to imprison. Hence the habeas right has been at the heart of the centuries-long struggle to constrain governments, a struggle in which the greatest event was the writing of America''s Constitution, which limits Congress''s power to revoke habeas corpus to periods of rebellion or invasion....As the conservative and libertarian Cato Institute argued in its amicus brief in support of the petitioning detainees, habeas, in the context of U.S. constitutional law, "is a separation of powers principle" involving the judicial and executive branches. The latter cannot be the only judge of its own judgment.
Others profiteered from Iran Contra.
%u201CLiberalthz don%u2019t underthand the Princthpals of Conthurvatisthum folks!%u201D
If Obama is a coward, why does he have the gonads to run for office ??
YOUR SWIFT BOAT DON''T FLOAT
I, (say your name), promise
to DO MY BEST
To do my DUTY to GOD
And my Country
To HELP other people, and
To OBEY the LAW of the Pack
Another Bad Deal for Baghdad
full article :
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/opinion/17meyer.html?hp
Posted by mascarponi at 04:43 PM : Jun 17, 2008
This deal that Bush is attempting to force on the new Iraqi Parliament caused the price of Oil to shoot up $10.00 in one day from $128 Dollars per Barrel to $138. This was the largest jump in the price of Oil for one day in the entire history of the futures trading exchange.
Bush, McCain and the Republicans equal high Oil Prices.
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