Thu 21 May 2009
Obama again renounces anti-terror low road
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Obama affirms Guantanamo closing and rebukes Bush anti-terrorist policies. RussiaToday News Channel
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My mailer today from ACLU;
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Dear ACLU Supporter,
Earlier today, President Obama delivered a major speech on torture, Guantánamo Bay, and military commissions.
That speech and the national debate it will spark in the weeks ahead wouldn’t be happening without you.
Without your energy, your commitment to principle, and your determination to keep America safe and free, there would be no national conversation about ending policies and practices that defy the Constitution and undermine the rule of law.
We were pleased to hear President Obama speak so movingly about respect for the Constitution, about the critical importance of due process, and about the horrible violation of American values that torture represents.
We do, however, strongly disagree with the president that modifying Bush-era military commissions can solve their basic injustice. Any system designed to produce a pre-ordained outcome — rather than a free and fair trial — is irreparably unjust.
Furthermore, creating a system of indefinite detention — holding detainees for years without facing charges — is a fundamental violation of the Constitution.
In the debate the president set in motion today, you can count on the ACLU to hold firm in defense of core principles. With you by our side, we will keep working to totally dismantle the Bush system of injustice and to create an America we can be proud of again.
Sincerely,
Anthony D. Romero
Executive Director
American Civil Liberties Union
© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004
ACLU.org
Mr. Cheney was wrong about almost every decision made since 9/11. Why would we expect him to be right about anything now?
And to hear him speak on national security is doubly offensive seeing how he received 5 deferments to avoid military service and not forgetting he was second in command when the worst terrorist attack ever occurred on our soil.
Bush/Cheney were asleep at the wheel when Al Queda struck and then they veered this nation off into a useless needless war with Iraq to divert our attention from the real terrorists and now they spend their time yammering about how safe they made the country.
For Cheney to tell us he knows all about national security is like Charlie Brown telling us he knows all about kicking a football.
Colin Powell underling, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson faults Bush & Rumsfeld