Tim Sumner

Barack Obama, Iraq, Mark Levin

President Barack Obama’s choice of wars and words

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A huge majority of Americans and Congress initially supported President George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq. When support for the war waned, Bush chose to stay the course and Congress has fully funded the effort to leave only when Iraq has both a representative government and viable security in place. America’s sons and daughters have lived up to their oaths, served the cause of liberty in Iraq, and continue to sacrifice.

While no survey will be taken to confirm it, I suspect nearly all who have served in Iraq were angered to hear at least one passage of President Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. Mark Levin played the audio and commented. Late in the show, Heather from Virginia Beach called in expressing what likely are the feelings of many military family members:

Words matter.

al Qaeda, Barack Obama, detainees, Gitmo, Guantanamo

Instant Justice (the ‘swift and certain justice’ terrorists earn)

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Ralph Peters writes today in the New York Post from the perspective of one who once wore a uniform and neither targeted nor endangered civilians by hiding among them:

Terrorists don’t have legal rights or human rights. By committing or abetting acts of terror against the innocent, they place themselves outside of humanity’s borders. They must be hunted as man-killing animals.

And, as a side benefit, dead terrorists don’t pose legal quandaries.

Captured terrorists, on the other hand, are always a liability. Last week, President Obama revealed his utter failure to comprehend these butchers when he characterized Guantanamo as a terrorist recruiting tool.

Closing Gitmo would be handing a propaganda victory to al Qaeda. Affording terrorists due process will not protect our troops if captured by them and only undermines the sole intent — protecting civilians — for why the Geneva Conventions stated who are protected persons, what rules uniformed warriors should follow, and deliberately left unlawful combatants unprotected. Those truths do not change just because your last name is Obama, Gates, or Mukasey.