That post partisan cooperation is biting the nation in the butt again, and Obama doesn't have our backs not only on the torture issue but on detainees.
In a statement late Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called Obama's decision to revamp and restart the tribunals a step toward strengthening U.S. detention policies that have been derided worldwide.
"I continue to believe it is in our own national security interests to separate ourselves from the past problems of Guantanamo," said Graham, who has been working with the administration on issues related to detainees. "I agree with the president and our military commanders that now is the time to start over and strengthen our detention policies. I applaud the president's actions today."
Graham was an Air Force lawyer and is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Another member of the panel, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., welcomed Obama's decision, saying the president "has reinforced that we are at war, and that the laws of war should apply to these prisoners."
Okay, I admit it. Obama sucks, just like every other politician ever.
So what do we do now, people? Letting this go is dangerous. Obama doesn't get it: NOT BEING HONEST about what we do and NOT TREATING PRISONERS HUMANELY opens up every US traveler, every current and future GI, to the threat of everything the opposition can IMAGINE the US has done.
I bet they can imagine quite a bit.
The rule of law doesn't just apply when it's convenient, and it doesn't just protect the opposition. The rule of law always matters, and the people it protects are generations removed from the cruelty and vicisiousness of the w/Cheney administration.
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over eager
He's just been too over eager in destroying his base's hopes that he would right the wrongs of Bush Administration.
He should have paced himself more. Heck he's disappointed on the economy, the war, Civil Liberties, Health care and openness in government.
It's going to be hard to get that pace up in destroying Democratic ideals to pander the right wing Republican base all the way up the next election.
WTF is Lieberman on about
"and that the laws of war should apply to these prisoners."
Wasn't that the whole point of these tribunals? That the typical laws of war didn't apply? I am all for using the laws of war the US signed onto, called the Geneva Conventions, but I don't think that is what Lieberman is referring to.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond