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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama

The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:52 AM

    @bernbart

    If they have any proof of wrong doing, they be an international court not U.S. military courts with ACLU defending them.

    Could you rewrite that, in English this time? I couldn't diagram that sentence if you gave me all afternoon and a pot of coffee...

    I don't know where this whole idea that U.S. citizens have human rights, but that foreigners can be treated any old way, came from. I mean, we've had wars before. We've taken foreign people hostage. For the most part, we've been able to avoid systematically sodomizing them with nightsticks and drowning them to the edge of death.

    We're really not in uncharted territory here, much as the bedwetters would like us to believe.

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