And back to the subject of the thread.....this editorial is pretty much right on.....

"Attorney General Eric Holder adopted a tough guy pose when he announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court for the most heinous terror attack on Americans in history. "After eight years of delay," he intoned, "those allegedly responsible for the attacks of September 11 will finally face justice. It is past time to finally act."

Where to begin? The claim that the Bush administration was somehow dilatory sets a new standard for gall, particularly coming from Eric Holder. As former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy points out, "The principal reason there were so few military trials is the tireless campaign conducted by leftist lawyers (including Holder) to derail military tribunals by challenging them in the courts.""

The editorial ends with this....

"Is that the nub? To satisfy the revenge fantasies of American leftists who have lusted to put the Bush administration on trial, the Obama administration is willing to sacrifice logic, justice, national security, and honor?

When KSM's star turn in the courtroom goes viral on the Internet and inspires thousands of new jihadis, the Obamaites can console themselves that at least they stuck it to George W. Bush.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...ive_99239.html

I have removed a string of seven posts that were the result of one poster's uncivil reference to another poster.

Keep your comments civil, please.

AND AWAY WE GO.....

NEW YORK - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34093721..._news-security

Originally Posted by Bucco

AND AWAY WE GO.....

NEW YORK - The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.

Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 attacks but "would explain what happened and why they did it."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34093721..._news-security

Gee who would've guessed?

Do you think that this might be what the Obama admin ans liberals in general wanted all along?

Yoda

Hold these fanatics up to the light. Let the whole world hear their blind hatred. let the world see these people for who they are. We have nothing to fear from their "message".

If they're not going to deny their roles, then they'll be found guilty, most likely, and they'll go to jail.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that our society and our values are so weak and threadbare that they can't stand up to some brainwashed dipstick shouting his crap in handcuffs. Did the publication of the Unabomber's manifesto bring us down? No.

It's like how, in conservative Muslim societies, they think so little of humanity that they believe a man can't see even a woman's OUTLINE wihout turning into an animal. Better to hide anything because they don't have any belief that their convictions can stand on their own.

How terribly insecure.

Originally Posted by djplong

Hold these fanatics up to the light. Let the whole world hear their blind hatred. let the world see these people for who they are. We have nothing to fear from their "message".

If they're not going to deny their roles, then they'll be found guilty, most likely, and they'll go to jail.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that our society and our values are so weak and threadbare that they can't stand up to some brainwashed dipstick shouting his crap in handcuffs. Did the publication of the Unabomber's manifesto bring us down? No.

It's like how, in conservative Muslim societies, they think so little of humanity that they believe a man can't see even a woman's OUTLINE wihout turning into an animal. Better to hide anything because they don't have any belief that their convictions can stand on their own.

How terribly insecure.

Problem is that there are americans who right after 9/11 blamed this country and now they will have "allies" in the main spot light ! They will join in condemning this country right next door to where it happened.

This has nothing to do with our strength or weakness of values..it IS going to be about politics......you just wait and see...POLITICS !!!

Originally Posted by Bucco

Problem is that there are americans who right after 9/11 blamed this country and now they will have "allies" in the main spot light ! They will join in condemning this country right next door to where it happened.

Yes, and those people were condemned, laughed at and ridiculed. they have just as much right to their misguided, ill-informed, self-serving opinions as anyone else.

Remember, it is unconstitutional for our government to silence someone.

It is not unconstitutional for that same person to open their mouth and be discovered as an idiot.

Originally Posted by djplong

Yes, and those people were condemned, laughed at and ridiculed. they have just as much right to their misguided, ill-informed, self-serving opinions as anyone else.

Remember, it is unconstitutional for our government to silence someone.

It is not unconstitutional for that same person to open their mouth and be discovered as an idiot.

Cant argue with your words, but will again predict that these guys will find sympathizers among our politicians who will use it to verbally abuse the previous administration and those like Rev Wright who totally agree with them !

Oh they will. There will be sympathizers. Heck, remember Jeanette Rankin? She was the Montana congresswoman who cast the LONE vote AGAINST the Declaration of War that FDR asked for in 1941 after Pearl Harbor.

Her justification? She said that FDR deliberately provoked the Japanese into attacking.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-h...rticle&id=4361

Originally Posted by djplong

Yes, and those people were condemned, laughed at and ridiculed. they have just as much right to their misguided, ill-informed, self-serving opinions as anyone else.

Remember, it is unconstitutional for our government to silence someone.

It is not unconstitutional for that same person to open their mouth and be discovered as an idiot.

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May I remind you that had not there been a lot of pressure our current President's minister/mentor/pastor for twenty(20) years would be one of those !!!

PS: But of course the President was not attending on those days or even aware that his mentor/pastor and advisor had said it !