Posted by
David Zublick on Sunday, September 13, 2009 10:54:45 AM
Everyone remembers where they were on that beautiful September morning
in 2001, when almost 3000 of our fellow citizens were brutally murdered
in the most horrific attack on our country since Pearl Harbor. The
memories of that terrible day are forever etched in the minds and
hearts of most Americans.
The current administration, however,
is defecating on the graves of those who lost their lives by
diminishing the importance of fighting the war on the radical Islamic
forces that would seek to do us harm again.
Barack Obama is hell-bent on closing
Guantanamo,
and bringing the detainees to the shores of the United States, putting
them in prisons largely reserved for common criminals. Many of these
detainees will be given rights to challenge their detention, and some
will be released, where they will be free to plot further attacks on
our country. Even those who remain confined will have the ability to
communicate with members of sleeper cells operating within the United
States.
Obama is also planning on giving rights to detainees being held at the America-run prison at the
Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. They will be allowed to call witnesses and present evidence in their defense.
Subsequent
to 9/11, the Bush administration took steps to help prevent another
attack by implementing policies to help gain valuable information
regarding future plots. These policies included tactics that some have
referred to as torture. We now know that the use of
waterboarding on such terrorists as Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed
resulted in information which did indeed help to foil plans by
terrorists to strike America again. These tactics have now been
discontinued by the current administration.
In separate interviews with
Newsmax, former
counterterrorism experts Ken
Clizbe and Michael
Scheuer indicated that we are now woefully unprepared with regards to the terror threat to America.
Clizbe
says it is "indisputable" that moves by Obama with regards to
intelligence agents have undermined the global war on terror. With
Obama allowing Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special
prosecutor to investigate the interrogation of terrorists detainees by
the CIA.
Scheuer said "Mister Obama doesn't appear to have a clue about what the world is and how it works. He's surrounded himself with
surrenderists
left over from the Clinton administration. And I think he really is a
man who doesn't have much interest in America. He appears to be more
concerned with what the world thinks of him. "
Obama has
diminished the memories of those who lost their lives on that fateful
day in 2001 by putting an end to the terms 'war on terror', and
'terrorist attack', and replacing them with 'overseas contingency
operation' and 'man-made disaster'. And his speech on the anniversary
of the attacks in which he emphasized public service over the
remembrance of our fellow citizens who died, insults the families and
friends who lost their loved ones.
It is truly unfortunate that due to
Obama's
attempt to placate the terrorists and their sympathizers, combined with
his arrogance in building his legacy, he may actually be helping to
create further national days of mourning in the United States for years
to come.
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