tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post438837562856331700..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29754656012195092832009-03-01T03:25:00.000-05:002009-03-01T03:25:00.000-05:00Wilson, you need a history lesson. There is legal precedent for every single policy initiative that Bush undertook in regard to detainees. People seem to forget the overwhelming majority from both sides who initially stated those policies were legal. Cheese'n rice man, FDR suspended Habeas Corpus for American citizens in WWII, something the Bush administration has never come close to doing. Read a history book. Daggum, the redaction program was started by Clinton anyways, and the timeline of contradictory statements he's made about it is a pretty good sign he was doing the same thing Bush did.<BR/><BR/>Kind of like the wiretapping thing. Just because you call it 'illegal wiretapping,' and try to use that as being synonymous with 'warrantless wiretapping,' doesn't make it so. Warrantless wiretaps have been used by the government under circumstances where a warrant couldn't be previously obtained for years. Will it still be illegal when Obama continues all these policies?Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098975387467002921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-91280513098241319252009-02-28T20:36:00.000-05:002009-02-28T20:36:00.000-05:00"You take your legal reasoning from a popular TV show now? Pretty lousy for a so-called officer of the court!"<BR/><BR/>Ever watch the West Wing? The Obama campaign was scripted by the same people. <BR/><BR/>Officers of the court aren't trained on, or responsible for fighting wars. I'll leave that task to trained soldiers.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-49549850596595674342009-02-28T20:30:00.000-05:002009-02-28T20:30:00.000-05:00You take your legal reasoning from a popular TV show now? Pretty lousy for a so-called officer of the court! Real lawyers defer to the rule of law, not Hollywood script-writers...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-14196696106978012492009-02-28T19:04:00.000-05:002009-02-28T19:04:00.000-05:00If one of those foreign terrorists has information about a nuclear bomb that is about to be set off in a major American city or an explosive-laden plane that will be flown into the White House or the Capitol Building, I don't give a damn what they do to get that information out of them. Liberals don't understand the difference between fighting a war against radicals who don't accept our civil justice system and running a criminal justice system in accordance with the rule of law to protect the rights of our citizenry. I have many problems with Bush-Cheney, including the manner in which it waged the Iraqi War; their handling of terrorists is not one of them. The radical Islamic terrorists didn't stop blowing up innocent people and otherwise creating mayhem elsewhere around the world; they just weren't successful on U.S. soil after 9/11.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-91306039984771630422009-02-28T18:48:00.000-05:002009-02-28T18:48:00.000-05:00You never once mentioned the horrible damage Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney did to the US reputation concerning torture while it was happening but now you bring it up to make politically partisan point against Democrats?Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.com