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To Get Bin Laden, Obama Relied on Policies He Decried

From National Review: Let’s cheerfully and ungrudgingly give credit to Barack Obama for approving the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. In my column last Monday, I criticized Obama’s foreign policy, which was characterized by one of his advisers in an interview with The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza as “leading from behind.” [...]

Obama Still Against Enhanced Interrogations — CIA Director Doesn’t Deny Waterboarding’s Role in Bin Laden Mission

From CNS News: President Barack Obama still opposes enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, the White House spokesman said on Tuesday, the same day that CIA Director Leon Panetta did not deny that waterboarding was a tactic that in part led to the successful operation on Sunday to kill terrorist Osama bin Laden. On Tuesday’s [...]

The Obama Administration’s cloud of confusion explained

From Right Wing News: Usually when governments use misinformation, they use it to make themselves look good. The Obama Administration gets points for originality, insofar as it’s been using disinformation and misinformation to make itself look arbitrary, unlawful, helpless and stupid. Here’s jj’s great summary: Okay, what do we have here: 1) There was a firefight. [...]

Non-shocker of the day: Most transparent prez ever decides not to be transparent; : GOP Rep. Mike Rogers said what?

From Michelle Malkin: Remember how we were waiting for the pic of the century yesterday? Looks like it’ll be a century before anyone ever sees it. In the least shocking news of the day, the most transparent president ever has decided not to release the bin Laden photos/video. MSNBC’er Chuck Todd just tweeted the news: “Pres. Obama [...]

Obama’s Win, Bush’s Credit!

From Human Events: President Barack Obama, who went after, captured, and killed Osama bin Laden did his nation favorable service, crossed an important threshold in the War on Terror, and will secure for himself in history the signature act to date in that war. And he couldn’t have done any of it without changing his [...]

Does The Obama Administration Stand With the Muslim Brotherhood?

From Intellectual Conservative: If the Obama Administration wants Egypt to have a more representative form of government it is difficult to comprehend how it will be facilitated with the inclusion of the Muslim Brotherhood. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. [...]

The global Muslim holiday jihad on Christians — and more Obama moral equivalence

From Michelle Malkin: I’ve noted Islamic attacks on Coptic Christians at home and abroad dating back to 2005 and Good Friday 2006. The latest wave of violence came over the New Year’s Day holiday in Egyptand follows increased Muslim persecution of Christians in Nigeria, thePhilippines, Baghdad, and across the Middle East: For Christians in the Middle East, there is no [...]

Barack Obama losing battle to close Guantanamo

From Telegraph.co.uk: JJudge Lewis Kaplan ruled that the evidence of the main witness in the trial of a Guantánamo detainee could not be heard because he was held in a secret CIA prison “under extreme duress”. As a result, a federal jury cleared the defendant, Ahmed Ghailani, of all but one of 286 charges, including [...]

The Fake Terror Threat From New START Defenders

From The Heritage Foundation: The proponents of President Barack Obama’s New START agreement with Russia are getting more desperate the more votes they lose. The latest sad act comes from the office of Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) who catalogs the fantastic claims of his colleagues: “Delaying a vote on the New START Treaty into next year is [...]

Obama Caves on Civilian Trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

From National Review: Let’s review the state of play, shall we? Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama blasted the Bush administration’s decision to treat al-Qaeda terrorists as enemy combatants and detain them without trial at Guantanamo Bay. Now, two years into his presidency, Obama has decided to treat al-Qaeda terrorists as enemy combatants [...]

Obama Issues Fake Terror Alert On Eve Of Elections

From Prison Planet: Establishment media fearmongers about “mail bomb plot” despite no bombs being found, Obama contradicts his own federal security apparatus Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, October 29, 2010 UPDATE: As this contrived scare unravels, Obama has given a press conference reversing earlier announcements that there were no explosives in the packages found on [...]

Islamic kids cartoons praised by Obama draw terse warning

From World Net Daily: A coming series of “superhero” cartoons promoting the tenets of Islam under the title of “The 99″ – which has been praised by President Obama – is drawing a terse warning from an expert who has analyzed media impact onpeople for decades. “These are not the types of heroes you want your children [...]

Obama’s Unbecoming Conduct

From Human Events: Barack Obama’s domestic policies have manifestly been disastrous for the United States, but in Conduct Unbecoming Robert “Buzz” Patterson makes the case that the President’s foreign and defense policies have been an even greater disaster. Patterson is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who once served as President Bill Clinton’s chief military aide, [...]

Obama Enabling Violent Jihad

From Human Events: The Obama administration’s first show trial for a violent Guantanamo Bay jihadi in a civilian court — a man who has never set foot in America — and endowing this enemy combatant with full citizenship-level Fifth Amendment rights is unraveling in the courtroom and putting America at risk. It would be a [...]

Ahmadinejad Rant Deals Major Blow to ‘Obama Doctrine’

From NewsMax.com: The bizarre U.N. rant alleging a 9/11 conspiracy by Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivered from the same podium where President Obama had just hours before extended yet another of olive branch of diplomacy toward the rogue Persian regime, marks the most devastating setback yet in the administration’s campaign of global engagement, foreign-policy experts [...]

Obama Admin predicts small scale terror… in time for elections, again?

From Prison Planet: “Terrorism” concerns necessarily hinge on fear, and it is now completely predictable that an otherwise unpopular Obama Administration would roll out the threat of terror to bolster support for the 2010 elections. The Washington Post reports that the “Risk of small-scale attacks by al-Qaeda and its allies is rising, officials say.” This [...]

America’s agony: September 11 anniversary marked by anger and controversy

From Telegraph.co.uk: Just as she has on the morning of Sept 11 for the last nine years, Wanda Ortiz arrived at Ground Zero with her twin daughters to celebrate the life of her husband Emilio, the father her girls never knew. For almost a decade, this has been a day of solemn remembrance, private memories [...]

Race to nukes ‘accelerates’ because of Obama policy

From World Net Daily: The danger that someone in the Middle East or elsewhere would obtain and use a nuclear weapon is higher now that President Obama has taken a series of actions toward his goal of global nuclear disarmament, according to a new analysis from the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI. A. Savyon, [...]

Barack Obama US troop withdrawal deadline a ‘boost’ to Taliban

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Karzai also said there would be no progress in the nine-year-long campaign while insurgents still had safe havens in Pakistan. His comments have intensified the debate about whether the July 2011 milestone outlined by Washington was feasible or had encouraged rebels to believe they could hold on until foreign troops start leaving. [...]

John Kerry: Obama Preparing to Negotiate With Afghan Terrorists?

From Right Wing News: If one can believe a word Senator John Kerry (D, Mass) says, the United States is launching efforts to negotiate with Taliban terrorists in Afghanistan. “I can report without being specific that there are efforts under way. They are serious and I completely agree with that fundamental premise — and so does [...]