Instead, the administration will continue to hold the detainees without bringing them to trial based on the power it says it has under the Congressional resolution passed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, authorizing the president to use force against forces of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
In concluding that it does not need specific permission from Congress to hold detainees without charges, the Obama administration is adopting one of the arguments advanced by the Bush administration in years of debates about detention policies.”
So, this is “change”, eh?
I remember on his first day in office he gave the OK on closing Gitmo and many people praised him for it. They hailed him as a true leader, one who would turn this country around, one who wasn’t like Dubya.
And now we have this. Unbelievable. Why isn’t the NYT plastering this all over the front page? Why aren’t liberals everywhere screaming about impeachment?
So much for integrity. So much for hope. So much for change.
I personally believe this is the right call by the President, and I truly believe that what happened was… Mr. Obama got into office and realized that there’s a LOT of stuff he just plain didn’t know, and now that he knows it, he has to continue the policies of Bush which were based on facts that we don’t know.
It’s easy to throw rocks at someone’s decisions when you don’t know all the facts, and that’s what Obama did during his campaign… he disagreed with Bush’s policies because it was politically expedient, not because it was correct.