Rendition of Terror Suspects Will Continue Under Obama – NYTimes.com — Oh, what a shocker! Who would have expected this?
The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.Skip to next paragraphRelatedTimes Topics: Central Intelligence AgencyBlogThe CaucusThe CaucusThe latest on President Obama, the new administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. More Politics NewsThe administration officials, who announced the changes on condition that they not be identified, said that unlike the Bush administration, they would give the State Department a larger role in assuring that transferred detainees would not be abused.“The emphasis will be on insuring that individuals will not face torture if they are sent over overseas,” said one administration official, adding that no detainees will be sent to countries that are known to conduct abusive interrogations.
Yes, tecban. You are not alone. A whole lot of people feel the same way!
We’ll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
Change it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fall that’s all
But the world looks just the same
And history ain’t changed
‘Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
I’ll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I’ll get all my papers and smile at the sky
For I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?
There’s nothing in the street
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Is now the parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight
I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Don’t get fooled again
No, no!
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
Yeah right, if you don’t have the stomach to do it yourself, farm it out to somebody that plays much rougher and you can wash your hands of it.
The only real difference on this point between Bush/Chaney and Obama and Zero is the level of hypocrisy.
Got a question. How many of you are sure Obama is actually in charge at the White House? If he is he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth. If he isn’t…Who needs him?
O wants us to pass the Health Control bill based upon blind trust in him. He’s giving us less reason for doing so.
#19 – Corn, I passed on the JayZ songs on the iPod too! Although I have been known to listen to a knee grow spiritual every now and then.
the picture looks like a street corner in oakland on a Friday night. 2 ho’s and a pimp.
I’m still trying to figure out WTH Oprah Winfrey was doing up on that stage… last I knew, she wasn’t running for office.
#23 Like Cheney was the puppetmaster with Bush, you mean?
Ok, wingnuts… this is a teaching moment here, to demonstrate the difference between Bush supporters and Obama supporters. Whenever Bush did something boneheaded, his supporters never swayed in their devotion to him. When Obama does something boneheaded, his supporters criticize him. Like I’m doing, now. I’m disappointed in him… I voted for him, but not to continue sending prisoners to god knows what fate in some third world country. That sucks. We can do our own interrogation.
Obama has become the articulate version of George Bush Jr.
Can you tell do some research on the Apollo Alliance that is taking credit for writing the stimulus bill and their ties to the white house? apolloalliance.org
#30 harold, wait until he starts a war on false pretenses, sending thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians to their deaths, costing trillions of dollars. Then we can begin comparing them.
The difference between Bush and Obama is that Bush was better for the safety of the US and that he cared about the US.
Of course this is what happens when even the most leftist president is actually confronted by an accurate and within the bounds of reality world threat report, unlike the leftist media (I know redundant) claptrap sludge that passes for “smart” today among the elites and academia.
The entire “war is not the answer”, “no blood for oil”, “Bush lied people died”, meme is/was the biggest con job leftist operation (in conjunction with the conspiracy theory nut cases) in modern times, and at least Obama has some non-ideological part of his brain that can see this, even though he profited greatly from it.
#34 Thanks for the Limbaugh/Beck update, smitty.
I hate it when politicians don’t follow through with what they say. I know there isn’t a dimes worth of difference between the two parties, but can’t we at least get a nickel?
On to more important issues – What is is with that picture? Not only do Oprah’s boobies look big and fun, but Michelle looks like she has gigantic thunderthighs.