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"What (Sarkozy) said is, 'If I can communicate with you, then the news media can watch our conversation,' which is very different than having a conversation with the news media which (average people) watch," Gingrich said.
Talking over the head of our Big Media was Reagan's model, too. Reagan had a knack for explanation; the next GOP nominee had better do a pretty good job.
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Gingrich added: "Those of you who care about civil liberties had better be thinking about how we win this war before the casualties get so great that the American people voluntarily give up a lot of those liberties."
Spot on. Unfortunately, it's already happening.
"Those who would give up essential liberty, for a little temporary safety, deserver neither liberty, nor safety.
----Ben Franklin
Jules Crittenden explores the fever swamps of the antiwar Left so you don't have to . . .
A terrorism conviction by a jury of his peers should shut up the Padillista cheering section. Don't you think?
Cat's got Firedoglake's tongue, after visions of sweet release for Padilla expected from a quick jury turn-around at the end of a "Kafkaesque trial" prove premature. Later, special correspondent Lewis Z. Koch, who's been covering this thing five years, chimes in with a rant about how Padilla was psychologically tortured. Firedog cat has his tongue on the central issues of the case, too. Koch by the way, is a fan of this site. Or he was. Don't know if his FDL pals have filled him in yet.
Newhog indignation here. Should have been terrorist Bush on trial instead of peace-loving American Padilla. Bush torture to blame. This seems to be emerging as the main thread. Padilla was driven so crazy he couldn't refute his fingerprints on the document and his voice on the tape.
OK, a couple more. Left Field: fear wins out. Yeah, Americans are stupid. LF adds remark about what a failure Bush's anti-terrorism policies are. There must be a successful terrorist attack on the mainland U.S. in the last six years less one month that I've forgotten. Shakespeare's Sister (really, that might actually be more insulting to Shakespeare than "Newshogger" is to pigs) sniffs that to wingnuts this will justify everything that was done to Padilla over the last 3 1/2 years. Well ... no, not really, that was already OK.
About that torture-nullification theory, by the way, judge didn't agree.
The AP, to its credit, includes here something missing in earlier reports, that none of the above seem much interested in noting:
U.S. officials said Padilla, while incarcerated in a military brig in South Carolina, admitted exploring the dirty bomb plot. But that evidence could not be used at trial because he was not read his rights and did not immediately have access to an attorney.
. . . It turns out, when the United States made the mistake of treating a turncoat enemy combatant as such, rather than treating him as a garden-variety domestic criminal, they screwed their primary case due to Miranda issues. This would not have been a problem had Padilla been subjected to a military tribunal and summary execution. You know, like George Washington used to do. The kind of thing you would expect for a traitor who has taken up arms against his country.
But it is fascinating that there are Americans who hate their president so much, they are willing to believe anything that terrorists, their legal representatives and their sympathizers say, to the point of ignoring reports in their own Bush-bashing press.
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In my opinion, post 9-11 or post the first few months of the Afghan operation, the Dept of Justice should have proposed a comprehensive law to replace the obsolete stuff we have now with provisions distinguishing between the various cases of
- Americans who are captured working with enemy combatants
- Americans who are captured working with illegal enemy combatants (like AlQ)
- resident aliens who are...
- non citizens who are...
Instead, the Dept of Justice basically stalled, let Congress suggest some stuff, etc.
Of course the lefties went nuts but this was entirely predictable and in fact enabled by the Dept of Justice in capacity.
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...I'm wondering when the character assassination of General Petraeus will start. He's way too popular and respected for the Dhimmis, and if they can;'t find a way to torpedo the message, they'll do it to the messenger. Could very well be why they don't want Petreaus to deliver the report himself, but rather the tame Trunks of the Administration.
Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski ||
08/17/2007 14:06 Comments ||
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CNN released a new opinion poll today, and it appears that the slime campaign on General David Petraeus has now officially begun with a month to go before his report to Congress. CNN claimed on their Situation Room that only 28% of responders would be more likely to support the war if Petraeus reports the surge is showing signs of progress, 72% wouldn't. And worse news, if one were to believe this poll, only 43% of those polled trusted Petraeus to give an accurate report in September, while 53% said they don't trust the top U.S. military commander in Iraq.
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The ultimate irony: The seventh-century terrorists win and those who habitually demonized American military operations will themselves lose as well.
Yeah, but the demonizers will be glad.
And then they'll start complaining again.
Posted by: Bobby ||
08/17/2007 15:42 Comments ||
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Only once Bobby.
Posted by: ed ||
08/17/2007 15:50 Comments ||
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David is probably the most non corrupt and effective public servant in the US government. I AM so proud of this professional. If one congress person tries to assassinate his character, I shall take them and their state to the woodshed.
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/17/2007 09:10 ||
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I'm glad that this seems to have been straightened out(for now), but the there's still the larger issue of judges constantly expanding their purview into defense matters.
We still have enough vitality as a nation to keep this phenomenom from crippling us, but for how long?
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Its what you get when you have a branch of government unchallenged in accumulating power because one party or the other thinks that as long as it supports its 'issues', it's ok. Its what you get when one branch of government wielding a great amount of power is, to use their term, de facto uncountable to the people. Its what you get when you set up a branch of government that becomes the sole domain of a 'select' group or profession.
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