Wednesday, November 18, 2009

So Which Is It?

Be afraid of them or don't be afraid of them?

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to put the professed Sept. 11 mastermind on trial in New York — and urging critics of the plan not to cower in the face of terrorists.

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President Barack Obama, meanwhile, said Wednesday that those offended by the legal privileges being given to Mohammed by trying him in a civilian court ultimately won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."

Obama added that he did not mean to suggest he was prejudging the outcome of Mohammed's trial. "I'm not going to be in that courtroom," he said. "That's the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury." He made the comment in one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia.

  Yahoo

It looks to me like prejudging is precisely what he did.

The man is certainly eloquent, and infinitely better spoken and more intelligent than the Boy King he replaced, but sometimes when he isn’t delivering prepared remarks, he speaks without thinking about what he’s saying.

And sometimes, perhaps too often, he doesn’t bother to be consistent.

Another, larger group of detainees is expected to be released to other countries. Some, the president has said, are too dangerous to be released and cannot be put on trial, and those detainees will continue to be imprisoned.



....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


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