-=> JEFF BINKLEY wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 WC> SH>> Today, Obama attached to legislation a signing statement so
 WC> SH>> brazen in its hypocrisy that democrats in Congress are bitching
 WC> SH>> about it. Listening to the moonbats here and in the other
 WC> SH>> echoes, when GW issued a signing statement, it had the effect
 WC> SH>> of nullifying the Constitution (this was particularly true of
 WC> SH>> the criminal Chirnside and the illiterate Ceppa.  Otto Archie
 WC> SH>> has no idea what a signing statement is).  Everyone seems to be
 WC> SH>> quiet about the Obama statement, though.

 WC> RS>> Just what was this signing statememnt?

 WC> WC> Well, there's only six to chose from as opposed to 1,200 for
 WC> WC> GW's terms in office.

 WC> EH> The Dems in the House aren't happy with Obama's few signing
 WC> EH> statements and he has 3 and a half more years in office to do
 WC> EH> more.

 WC>I'm not happy he isn't overturning nte Military Commissions act
 WC>of 2006, however the alternative is also totally unacceptable.

 WC>Many of the Guantamino detainees ( some say 50 percent) as well
 WC>many others kept elsewhere are innocent.
 WC>Many simply picked by the Norther alliance ( tribal war lords)
 WC>to sell to Americans for profit.

 WC>Subjected to the torture they were it's unremarkable many
 WC>pled guilty to stuff the never did.
 WC>Anything they said under previously existing law would have to be
 WC>thrown out as inadmissable.

 WC>IOW's Obama if he kept promise of eliminating the Military
 WC>commissions Act of 2006 would have to by law free them all because of
 WC>the coersion and hearsay evidence used against them.

 WC>Now had Bush operated under existing U.S. and international law and
 WC>not  made his own up as he went along Guantamino would no longer
 WC>exist as its detainess would either been freed if innocent or
 WC>convicted  if found guilty.

 WC>So now we're with two bad alternatives neither of which is
 WC>satisfactory

 JB> I think we let them go in your neighborhood and you can tell us which
 JB> ones are the good guys from the bad guys.

Had W elected to enforce existing law the problems would no longer exist.
They'd have been tried and where appropriate convicted.

Instead he went about making up laws, illegal laws, thus the problems
we're in now.

John Yoo of the office of legal council is also highly complicit.

 
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