Obama Continues Bush’s Unconstitutional Prolonged Detentions W/O Trial

There is just one littlle problem. Many of the detainees if that is the term for them, were the innocent sons and fathers of innocent families and they were taken into custody from their homes, If that is the term or captured as POW's. Now how would anybody in America like to be taken into custody from his home and detained for five or seven years with no way to contact family and also be subject to the brutal torture as indicated by the failure of the photo's to be released. Don't you ever believe that America is totally safe from the international community and it is vulnerable to foreign invasion considering that the whole world hates us and is trying to carve a wall between the Dollar and the Euro dollar or some other international currency.The Dollar is too weak to be of value as the international currency and besides Obama refuses to get rid of the people who caused this debacle. The whole world is suffering from the Federal Reserve Bank and its excesses and for the fact that they have permitted these great ponzi and pyramid scheme's to continue. Imagine how many rich people in this world have lost so much money from US investments. US is and has been bankrupt for years now and is or could be subject finally to foreign investors calling in their worth. US cannot pay off with anything but Real Estate. China has a great amount of money tied up in the USA. Think about that. So does DuBai and all of the Arab Nations. If the USA can condone torture so can the rest of the world and they could also impose sanctions against us one day. The world keeps getting smaller and smaller.

Anyone from Al-Qaeda detained are detained as terrorists. I see no Constitutional problems here. These guys wear no uniforms, are affiliated with no country. The Geneva Convention does not apply and neither does our Constitution. Rachel and other like her need to get over it and figure out which side she is on.

How many of Bush appointees are still on the Obama agenda? How many of the economic advisers are from Goldman Sachs, AIG, JP Morgan Chase??

Just what don't you understand??The USA foreign policy has been barbaric since the end of WWII. Harry Truman gave us the National Security State and from there our Government went from worse to worst.We bought friends and installed vicious corrupt dictators we maintained a CIA and covert operations maintained economic hit lists and assassinations world wide and all we ever heard of was the Russian assassinations and murders We created a world of hate, terrorist and enemies. Our constitution is in existence as a museum piece of historic Document that has no power anymore. Just a piece of Parchment paper. If only those Patriots who are willing to kill and die to prevent defacing the flag would only recognize that our constitution is of far greater value than the Flag. Perhaps together they could stimulate the psyche in the public, but I doubt it, We have been taught what is political right and political wrong as political correctness and that means we can lie if we can benefit from it and not get caught.

Duped us blind optimists!

This is a mess. And Obama's equivocation on the legal aspect of prolonged detention is sad, especially coming from a former constitutional law professor. But as a country, we are in a no win situation. Our current laws are not adequate for dealing with acts of war from non nation states. Terrorists don't wear uniforms and today's battlefields are very different than they were 50 years ago. A new legal framework is needed and Obama is right when he says it should aligned with our values and our constitution.

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but when I read some of these posts or hear comments from Rachel Maddow that imply that Obama and Bush are somehow the same on this issue, I really have to question their grasp of the facts (or their agenda). Obama says in the very speech that Maddow clips from that the current system of dealing with enemy combatants (the Bush system) is massively flawed. He then goes on to say there needs to be a new system developed that must include legislative and judicial review. A new system that must conform to the rule of law. Exactly how is that like Bush?

Like I said, it's a mess. But here's the real question, what do we do with the GITMO detainees who the only evidence we have against them was obtained by torture? Do we try them with that evidence? Do we try them in federal court or a military tribunal? Do we just let them go? Clearly there are no easy answers here.

Obama is screwing up so badly that pretty soon you liberals will start referring to him as half white!

It is distasteful, but it does not sound any different than holding enemy prisoners from the battlefield until the end of the war to prevent them from rejoining the fight.

Once Al-Qaeda declares their unconditional surrender, then those detained should be immediately released. Our constitution applies only to American citizens as harsh as that sounds. If we capture an American Al-Qaeda operative, give him due process and all the rights afforded to him under the AMERICAN constitution. However, foreign Al-Qaeda fighters have no rights under our laws unless afforded by treaties we have signed like the Hague treaty and/or Geneva convention.

Al-Qaeda is at war with our laws, culture, and way of life, we should not wage a war in return only to let them to benefit from these same American values that they are so hell-bent on eradicating. If we play by the rules while the other team ignores them, our odds of winning are slim.

Even Michael Moore is becoming skeptical of this administration. I'd say the man is more like Bush than most would choose to admit.