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9/11 Didn’t Happen: The Obama Administration Tries to Prove George Bush Was Wrong

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 4th, 2010 at 10:42 PM  | 

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“This isn’t prosecuting a war. This is playing Law & Order. We have a President who really does believe all the world is a stage and he is a Screen Actors Guild member.”

There was no terrorist attack on 9/11. It was the fruition of a criminal enterprise. That, at least, is Barack Obama’s working theory on what happened that day.

It would be one thing if our lives were not at stake.

Barack Obama has decided he is going to show the world that George Bush was wrong in how he conducted the war on terror. Bush decided to send foreign terrorist enemies to GTMO for questioning by the military and, in a few cases, to be water boarded to get answers.

Obama is above that He is better than that. Barack Obama is going to prove to the world and to the 55-60% of Americans who prefer to kill lest we be killed that he is better than them all.

Unfortunately for us, our lives are at stake.

According to the Washington Post, because Obama decided to treat the terrorist who wanted to blow up Delta 253 over Detroit as a criminal instead of a terrorist, the terrorist now has a defense attorney who has advised the terrorist that he does not have to cooperate or talk. In fact:

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian charged with the failed attempt on the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, was initially “talking to people who detained him” but now has a public defender and “doesn’t have to,” John O. Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.”

So how as the Obama administration decided to respond?

They are going to give the terrorist a plea bargain.

A plea bargain. For a terrorist. This isn’t prosecuting a war. This is playing Law & Order. We have a President who really does believe all the world is a stage and he is a Screen Actors Guild member.

How many Americans will die because Barack Obama decided to lawyer up instead of soldier up?

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  • http://www.thehayride.com MacAoidh

    ….wait, that’s not funny at all.

  • http://www.ChuckDeVore.com Chuck DeVore

    And yes, Americans are at greater risk because of it. But then, we knew that in November, 2008.

  • ModernAgeFan

    We all know this is going to end badly. It is infuriating to think that we have an amateur President who is so out of touch with reality. Unfortunately his dilettante decisions are going to have serious negative consequences for all of us. Way to go Barry!

  • NeoKong

    Get my check yet….?

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada

    Remember this.

  • http://www.veronicaestrada.com/ Veronica Estrada

    Remember this.

  • NeoKong

    Who that kid’s lawyer is and from what law firm he practices ?
    Is he local or is he some high priced D.C. muscle hand picked by Eric Holder?
    There is no way that kid got some random public defender. I would bet he has better legal counsel than O.J. Simpson had during his murder trial. I would like to know who pays for his lawyer and if that attorney has ties to Eric Holder one or two people removed.
    The guy has to be connected somehow.
    I’d look into it myself but I’m washing my hair tonight.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    But if I had to guess I’d guess it was an ACORN lawyer.

  • Beasley Beesmeal

    follow him right now

  • http://erickbrockway.wordpress.com/ Erick Brockway

    …but we thought 52 had more sense than it turned out they did.

  • NeoKong

    Robert Bauer.
    White House legal counselor.
    Wouldn’t that be just ducky…?

  • bs

    Just like a little kid who tests his parents until they whack his butt. I think it’s time to get out the hickory stick and beat his rear end.

  • spainishirish

    At least the lawyer knows how to do his job. Unfortunately for the nation, this president doesn’t have a clue how to do his. Look for false claims about how the “plea” deterred acts of terror, which will be much like the “jobs saved ” meme–both asinine and impossible to disprove at the same time.

  • Richard Mullins

    …but how would out this fine mess, if somehow he found not guilty? I’m wondering things in my head about that.

  • Jag_NCT

    When my fav MLB team runs a loosing streak beyond my patience I call out that the players need to turn in their MLB players association cards and get their SAG cards punched. Real criticism.
    Appropriate critique of a community organizer pretending to be POTUS.
    Heh

  • aelie

    Time sensitive information: I am sure this guy isn’t exactly privy to long term planning of Al Qaeda. Which means many information from this guy would be irrelevant by the time plea agreement is reached. Even if he talks more – and that’s a BIG if – We will be just getting more of worthless intelligence from this guy.

    As far as my second point goes: criminals convicted of attempted murder can expect a prison sentence even after a plea bargain. That’s precisely what this guy did. But I have a feeling that a free plane ticket back to Nigeria is also a part of this plea agreement. After all, Obama administration will label him as being “cooperative.” At least criminals can expect some justice.

  • Tbone

    If I were his lawyer, I would say he was guilty of smoking on an airplane. I mean if a “bomb” doesn’t go off, is it really a bomb? Granted, most people don’t smoke their shorts, but most guys don’t dress up like women but the guys that do have RIGHTS, why not short smokers.

    Also, I would sue the hell out of that crazy dutch dude who beat up my client and the airline for defamation.

    A few more stunts like this and even becker will start looking for Barry’s birth certificate.

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    That was BEFORE the 9/11 Commission, before the Military Tribunals discussions and LEGISLATION, SCOTUS rulings, etc…

    WE KNOW BETTER NOW AND HAVE THE BETTER OPTION but the MSM plays up the nonsensical argument anyway….

    What would be best would be to AMEND the Tribunal Legislation to clearly delineate that “ACTS OF TERRORISM;” and spell out “attempts to blow up an Airliner” and what-ever else, if need be; will be turned over the Tribunal System. Of course, they won’t do that BUT Republicans should be calling for this!!!!

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    that will be lined up all around NY to cheer on the Dog-And-Pony Show and help Obama furhter tear-down America with putting the Bush Admin, the CIA, Blackwater, etc…. actually on Trial rather than the TERRORIST — that will just be a “lucky” side-effect if it works out that he gets sent to Jail in their minds.

  • Maelstrom

    A few weeks ago, the History Channel ran a special called “102 Minutes That Changed America”. This show had no commentary, it was simply New Yorker’s own videos shown in chronological order. During one sequence, as people stood around watching the burning buildings, some reporter was heard to ask, “how does that make you feel?” The outward display of anger towards him asking and for the horrible sights they were seeing, was real and severe. There is a segment of Americans who have forgotten the emotions of that horrible day. For our President to act as he has, mirandizing this terrorist, just proves he has forgotten. Or has some warped sense of reality. What a disgrace. I’d like to see the authorities place this guy in front of that mob on that day. Problem solved.

  • audax

    Abdulmutallab?s Lawyer is Public Defender Who Forged Documents in Detroit Terror Cell Trial Here is link to read abourt her.

    http://www.debbieschlussel.com/14360/abdulmutallabs-public-defender-is-dirty-trickster-who-forged-documents/

  • gunnerbs

    criminal.

    At what point to Articles of Impeachment get drawn up? Is there a petition anywhere, so our congress-critters at least have some formal type of feel for Americans’ position on this? Not that it will do any good in this congress.

    But for cryin’ out loud, enough is enough! I read about this plea deal last night, just before bed, and got so worked up I could barely get to sleep. And it isn’t just war-on-terror issues. Good grief. Now I’m getting worked up again.

  • bigmaude

    Hey Richard,are the things in your head the same things that are dancing around in mine? I’ just sayin’……..uh oh?

  • ghilljr

    You elect a leftist lawyer, you get his world view. Not to mention the behavior that flows from the world view of a leftist lawyer. People that break the law are victims and aren’t responsible for their own actions. And America is a bad evil place.

  • NeoKong

    Thanks.

  • bk

    He shouldn’t admit to smoking – Holder and Obama would find that a much bigger offense than trying to blow up the plane.

  • bk

    Since the CHANGE to “head in the sand” mode, we HOPE they will leave us alone.

    Let’s see how it’s going so far…
    - If we promise to end torture, they won’t hate us any more.
    - If we promise to close Gitmo, they won’t hate us any more.
    - If we promise to get out of Iraq, they won’t hate us any more.
    - If we promise to let more US troops die than to occasionally accidentally kill a civilian in Afghanistan, they won’t hate us any more.

    This could go on forever. Before long it will be…
    - If we promise to end all aid to/support for Israel, they won’t hate us any more.
    - If we promise to close all military bases outside the US, they won’t hate any more.
    - If we promise to implement sharia law in the US, they won’t hate us any more.
    - If we…

  • pilotguy40

    I would throw him out of the back of an aircraft at 30,000 ft over Nigeria… I mean he escaped while I was deporting him.

  • neoavatara

    There are reasonable reasons to act as the Obama Administration is acting. But none of them are consistent with fighting a war. They are treating all terrorism as criminal acts, and nothing more. That simply is naive in this conflict, and I worry that it will have devastating consequences.

    http://neoavatara.com/blog/?p=9361

  • DefendUSA

    Even if Congress voted for the war, there was never a “declaration of war” so he can be tried as a criminal. Sick and tired of that meme, too. I don’t like it one bit.

    A muslim, on a plane, with explosives is a frakkin’ terrorist and should be treated as such, for God’s sake!

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    The price is ultimately slavery.

  • Repair_Man_Jack

    The price is ultimately slavery.

  • southcoast

    So this isn’t a war?
    Did 0 bother to ask the Jihadists this?
    Where has he been since 1979?
    Apparently he never took a history class at Harvard. Or, judging by his attitude he probably did. This guy, like his moonbat acolytes, has zero historical perspective beyond the eight year myopia which infects their perceptions. He is on track to be contrasted and compared with Carter whose footsteps this administration is following.

  • wyllyness

    As soon as i read your comment, I knew that was exactly what they were planning!

    BTW, if all that is left is the right, then we will have another problem. Our system was set up for debate and checks and balances. The b/f and I fear that if we had the opposite, yet sweet-sounding, system we have today, we would still have a problem. We need debate. And we don’t get it in the all and nothing system we have today.

    If we are going to treat terrorists like criminals, we should start treating them according to the laws in their OWN country. I haven’t discovered a lot on Nigerian Law regarding bombs on airplanes and suspects, but Amnesty Int’l. says according to Nigerian law, police are allowed to shoot suspects and detainees if they run away. hmmm.

    I think someone in prison might be bribed to suggest running away to Abdul.

  • wyllyness

    then it’s a terrorist act, in my opinion. And they have, according to the Detroit News.

    http://www.detnews.com/article/20091228/NATION/912280397/1409/Al-Qaida-in-Yemen-claims-responsibility-for-attack-on-U.S.-airliner-at-Metro-Airport

  • Tbone

    If that is also your idea, then we agree that debate can be productive.

  • wyllyness

    Remember?

    The history books get changed according to each administration.

  • wyllyness

    he’s on track to be so much worse than Carter that there can be no comparison.

    when he first got implemented as the lead tool of our country, part of me was hoping that he continue to make mistakes all four years long so we would not forget by the time 2012 rolls around. It scares me that if “we” could forgive Clinton and re-elect him, then “we” will forgive Obama.

    But then mistakes like this are made and I get terrified. His mistakes are getting worse and worse each time, and I’m so scared right now.

    Praying that 2010′s balancing out of America’s government, which I KNOW it will be, will sorta fix that problem, and still allow him to be unpopular enough long into November 2012, lest “we” forget as a country.

  • archer52

    http://pajamasmedia.com/claudiarosett/homeland-security-with-talent-like-this/

    I was surfing a little and caught this article. As we see Brennan, and I watched that tortured explanation on FOX, try to justify the unjustifiable, I’m reminded of that group of people in the upper strata of the ruling elites that enable our leaders to do, well the undoable. Like, for example, changing a war into a crime. Erick right here. It is madness. (Oh where is Charlton Heston when we need him! -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQME8mx4DMo) But only a madness the criminal defense lawyers could love.

    So who are these guys that trot out, regardless of administration, wearing red noses and big shoes and do their level best to sell a load of cr*p as a pot of gold all the while squirting us with a plastic flower on their lapels? Who are they? They seem intelligent, some probably even went to “Haaavaard” (add accent), but there they are selling the load, with a smile and a confident tone to people who know better. Brennan was one step short of having Wallace hang a flashing sign behind him with an arrow pointing down saying “Idiot, idiot, idiot.”

    In Claudia Rosett’s article she highlights the new person chosen by Napolitano, who happens to be her deputy, as being in charge of the outreach to improve security. That person is Jane Holl Lute/ Take the time to read up on her background. It is a good example of the upper strata bureaucracy that desires to run your lives. This is your enemy. The entrenched bureaucrats who will simply do what they need to do to say in control and keep you placated. Almost living versions of the Blue pill from the Matrix movies. Or the cop assigned the duty to stand in front of the crowd, gathered to see a disaster, saying, “Move on. Nothing to see here.” What is so shocking is there are so many people clamoring to play that role! Where is the honor? These are the ones you need to be careful of, they are the army supporting the even thinner strata of political leaders. Without them, this whole scheme you sense being perpetrated upon you would collapse.

  • Ausonius

    Republicans must absolutely grab the microphone on this: with BIG BRObama doing his smooth-talking Barry White impression, trying to seduce the American people into thinking everything is fine with this idiotic technique of dealing with terrorists, there is a danger that the squishy types will shrug and go along with him.

    That squishy 5-7 per cent is what got MAObama into the Rainbow House to begin with.

    Plus it is always good to present your argument even to the hard-liners: an epiphany of common sense is always possible!

    So who among leading Republicans is charging forward?

  • Ausonius

    Republicans must absolutely grab the microphone on this: with BIG BRObama doing his smooth-talking Barry White impression, trying to seduce the American people into thinking everything is fine with this idiotic technique of dealing with terrorists, there is a danger that the squishy types will shrug and go along with him.

    That squishy 5-7 per cent is what got MAObama into the Rainbow House to begin with.

    Plus it is always good to present your argument even to the hard-liners: an epiphany of common sense is always possible!

    So who among leading Republicans is charging forward?

  • debunkthemyths

    I was one of the “mob” that was there on 9-11.

    I have photos of the downtown scene as it unfolded around me. I wanted to make sure that no putz would ever be able to state that it never happened.

    Our Founding Fathers understood the differences between domestic and foreign threats and ensured through our consititution and bill of rights that we would always have a method defense. Our modern day politicians have thrown a wrench into that machine with their open opposition to the second amendment and further attempting to regulate firearms out of existence and this latest attempt to make a foreign threat a doemstic threat.

    Treating these terrorists as criminals is O’Bummer’s way of apologizing yet again to the world and especially the terrorist nations that supported this and the other terrorist attacks on our citizens around the world.

    This Moron–In-Chief actually beleives that by softening our view of terrorists, the world will come to like us more.

  • MF

    It’s really hard to win a propaganda war when the only word most people hear (via MSM) is so slanted and filtered. The really powerful sound bites will never be heard, and other quotes will be taken out of context to paint a very skewed picture of what conservatives are really saying.

  • Ausonius

    If only just by word of mouth! Or by spreading the word via e-mails to people you might not know directly.

    This is why it is essential for the Republicans to have someone in the forefront – and not necessarily a potential presidential candidate – leading the charge on this issue and the other ones as well.

    Dick Cheney is one obvious choice, and the MSM will occasionally let him speak or cover his remarks. Palin of course is the other one. But we need a few more also.

    I agree that the danger of media distortion is there: to avoid that, one could use direct ads, but of course they cost money.

  • Ausonius

    If only just by word of mouth! Or by spreading the word via e-mails to people you might not know directly.

    This is why it is essential for the Republicans to have someone in the forefront – and not necessarily a potential presidential candidate – leading the charge on this issue and the other ones as well.

    Dick Cheney is one obvious choice, and the MSM will occasionally let him speak or cover his remarks. Palin of course is the other one. But we need a few more also.

    I agree that the danger of media distortion is there: to avoid that, one could use direct ads, but of course they cost money.

  • wyllyness

    touche! i love that kind of debate.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com rmekrnl

    I thought we had a long-standing, pretty firm policy of NOT negotiating with terrorists. Isn’t plea bargaining negotiating? Well, of course it is. I guess that’s just another policy of Bush, and Clinton, and Bush, and Reagan, and Carter, and Ford, and …, that we are going to just change and/or ignore now in the new and enlightened era of Obama.

    Obama and is henchmen and handmaidens need to learn that while all terrorists are criminals because of their lesser included criminal acts, not only are not all criminals terrorists but that terrorists are also criminals-plus, and that’s a big PLUS. Therefore, terrorists should be treated DIFFERENTLY than mere criminals.

    You don’t treat the guy who tried to hold up a 7-11 with a fake gun the same as you do the guy who actually shot and killed somebody, and you don’t treat the guy who tried to blow up a whole plane of almost 300 people the same as you do the guy who shot and killed one person. DUH!