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Tx4obama

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Sun Apr 28, 2013, 05:37 PM Apr 2013

Republicans Who Criticize Obama Were Silent When Bush Tried Terror Suspects In Civilian Court


Republicans Who Criticize Obama Were Silent When Bush Tried Terror Suspects In Civilian Court

In the Latin, bellum sacrum means holy war (religious war) that during the Middle Ages were justified by religious differences involving one state with an established religion against another state with a different religion, or they can be waged to suppress one specific group because of its religious beliefs or practices. Historically, between 1095 and 1291 Christian crusaders (mainly Roman Catholics) from all over western Europe waged a series of Crusades against Muslims, and if some Republicans have their way, America will engage in new holy war against Islam even though Founding Father John Adams said America was not a Christian nation and harbored no enmity against Muslims. As is often the case with Republicans, they base their holy war advocacy on ignorance, hate, and their usual twisted sense of religious superiority.

Since the terror attacks on 9/11, there has been a large and rather vocal group of extremists who conflated a criminal act of terrorism with a religious assault, and have called for a war against Islam that inflamed the Middle East and incited radicalized Muslims to attack Americans at home and all around the world. After the Boston marathon bombing, there were virtually immediate calls for America to declare war on Islam, and it brings up some important points the 21st century crusaders cannot grasp because they are blinded by hatred that is jeopardizing the security of Americans, both Muslims and Christians. The loudest advocates for war against Islam represent a growing segment of the population who are equally as ignorant as the politicians calling for a war with Islam, and they ignore a simple fact; America does not wage war on a religion, and that the religion, Islam, is not a country or nationality, but just another group of people following a mythological figure who claimed to be a prophet of god.

Earlier this week, perennial Christian nutjob and congressional representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX), lashed out at the President and claimed “It’s very clear to everyone but this administration that Islam is at war against us, and this administration has so many Muslim Brotherhood members that have influence that they just are making wrong decisions for America.” Gohmert then assailed Attorney General Eric Holder for “having spent more time before being AG trying to help terrorists than trying to corral them, the first impulse was let’s get him to stop talking.” Gohmert was referring to Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the decision by the Obama Administration Justice Department to read him his Miranda rights and try him in criminal court like any other criminal, and incidentally, exactly like George W. Bush and his Attorney General, John Ashcroft, did with about 800 suspected terrorists who were taken to criminal court during the Bush administration. That is right; war monger and convicted war criminal George W. Bush sat down with John Ashcroft and made the right decision to try alleged terrorists as the criminals they were instead of declaring a holy crusade against Islam.

Bush may have been many bad things, but by trying the terror suspects in criminal court and not as “enemy combatants,” he sent a message that America was not at “war with Islam,” but was prosecuting suspected terrorists as criminals. Bush directed Ashcroft to try every high-profile case against al-Qaeda terrorists captured on American soil in civilian courts, and nearly all of them were convicted and are living out the rest of their lives in federal supermax prisons. Only one suspect, Jose Padilla, was first designated an enemy combatant, but the case was moved to criminal court where he was tried, convicted and sentenced on a variety of terrorism charges. During the Bush administration’s crusade against suspected terrorists who were tried in civilian court and not as “enemy combatants,” Republicans were silent and did not call for waging war against Islam until something happened on January 20, 2009; Barack Obama became President of the United States.

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/republicans-criticize-obama-silent-bush-terror-suspects-civilian-court.html

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Republicans Who Criticize Obama Were Silent When Bush Tried Terror Suspects In Civilian Court (Original Post) Tx4obama Apr 2013 OP
Thank you for posting some negative things about Republicans and Bush OKNancy Apr 2013 #1

OKNancy

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1. Thank you for posting some negative things about Republicans and Bush
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 06:13 PM
Apr 2013

I appreciate it as I'm reading a lot of swill lately.

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