We survived FDR (and, are still trying to pay off his social security scheme.)

Al Qaeda owe people like him a debt of gratitude for helping to destroy the country from within, in a way that the terrorists would never be able to do on their own.

Since you are so thrilled about Obama’s approach to terrorism, here’s what his new Attorney General had to say about enemy combatants:

Unlawful Combatants Are Not POWs [Cliff May]

That was the view of Eric Holder, Oama’s choice for Attorney General, in a CNN inteview in 2002 (as recalled by the WSJ today):

“One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people.

“It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not.”

In recent years, this has been the argument put forward by such conservatives as Andy McCarthy and me (most recently in this Commentary review of Jane Mayer’s book blasting the current administration for betraying American values by taking such views).

Let’s hope Holder sticks to his guns on this.

Oh, but coddling terrorists is more important if you can score political points and are too stupid to know that war demands tactics that aren’t always pretty.

As someone else put it – “I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said ‘thank you,’ and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest that you pick up a weapon and stand a post.”

Bush’s approach to dealing with enemy terrorists had to break new ground, and I would rather him err on the side of protecting American citizens–and, based upon the law as it has been, his authorized approaches have been legal.

Please write Pres. Bush a thank you note rather than work to get us all killed.

But it looks like these Bush/Cheney criminals are taking pains not to end up like Saddam Hussein and the fix might be in already.

From the Huffington Post;
” Bush might decide to issue pre-emptive pardons before he leaves office to government employees who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Some constitutional scholars and human rights groups want the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama to investigate possible war crimes.”