Obama Could Be Facing 10 Years To Life In Prison…

[JohnR! 5,495]

Watching the Obama supporters here fall over each other, convincing each other that there's nothing wrong with what the president did is fricking hilarious.

I guess if you tell yourself the sky is orange, and someone backs you up on that craziness, then it must be true.

Precisely, if you tell yourself that Obama could be facing 10 years to life in prison based on nonsense, then it must be true.

However I find it far more hilarious to see the motley crew twist, spin and try and bend the manner in which law is written in an attempt to make their square peg fit a round hole.

I don;t see anyone here defending the POTUS so much as many are pointing out the fallacies, sophistry and downright untruths that are being presented as law. You need not defend the POTUS when the basis for any accusations seen here is pure speculation and misrepresentation of the law.

Edited June 10, 2014 by Gegel

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Precisely, if you tell yourself that Obama could be facing 10 years to life in prison based on nonsense, then it must be true.

If that's what one wants to believe, yes.

What's truly hilarious is the constant crying wolf out of that right corner. Next they'll find out that the President takes a dump every day - that will be some scandal.

[Karee 4,190]

Precisely, if you tell yourself that Obama could be facing 10 years to life in prison based on nonsense, then it must be true.

I don't recall stating that. Please show me. Also, I'm gonna LMFAO when your new VJ BFF rips you a new one. It's coming soon enough.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I don't recall stating that. Please show me. Also, I'm gonna LMFAO when your new VJ BFF rips you a new one. It's coming soon enough.

I was agreeing with you, in case you had not noticed.

[UncleBeer 244]

Unclebeer doesn't seem to think so.

The military was involved in the decision only to the extent that their advice was ignored.

I would like to know what battlefield these capable militants are going to be thrown back down on. Anyone any suggestions?

Yes, I suggest you look these things up for yourself.

(but since you won't, the answer in at least one case is Afghanistan)

[Peikko 1,575]

The military was involved in the decision only to the extent that their advice was ignored.

Yes, I suggest you look these things up for yourself.

(but since you won't, the answer in at least one case is Afghanistan)

I know Afghanistan is a country and I know that Taliban militants inhabit Afghanistan. What I am not aware of is that Afghanistan is a battlefield. A poverty ridden, messed up backwater full of malcontents and militants, undoubtedly, but a battlefield that does not make. Added to that, that the US are withdrawing from the region, then one has to say that the fear mongering is well and truly epic.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Watching the Obama supporters here fall over each other, convincing each other that there's nothing wrong with what the president did is fricking hilarious.

I guess if you tell yourself the sky is orange, and someone backs you up on that craziness, then it must be true.

Surely you can see the irony in your comment? If you were being sarcastic and I missed it, my humblest apologies.

[UncleBeer 244]

I know Afghanistan is a country and I know that Taliban militants inhabit Afghanistan. What I am not aware of is that Afghanistan is a battlefield. A poverty ridden, messed up backwater full of malcontents and militants, undoubtedly, but a battlefield that does not make. Added to that, that the US are withdrawing from the region, then one has to say that the fear mongering is well and truly epic.

Ugh; you're invested enough to keep coming back and spewing your opinions, but not interested enough to click on the links so you'll know what's being discussed. Apparently time to spoon-feed you the info you can't take the trouble to click on yourself:

You asked:

I would like to know what battlefield these capable militants are going to be thrown back down on. Anyone any suggestions?

...and I posted this link

Released Taliban commander promises to return to fight Americans

A source close to one of the former Guantanamo Bay prisoners released last week by the United States claim he plans to travel back to Afghanistan to fight against American troops.

The former detainee, Noorullah Noori, is one of five suspected Taliban higher-ups freed by US President Barack Obama last week in exchange for the return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a 28-year-old American soldier who as captured by an Al-Qaeda linked group in 2009 while serving the US Army in Afghanistan.

A fellow militant and relative told NBC News that despite serving nearly 13 years at the infamous US military prison after he was captured shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Noori reportedly wants to once again fight against the American military.

Noori and four others were released last week in a prisoner swap for Bergdahl, and are reportedly now in Qatar. According to once-secret detainee assessment files authored by Pentagon officials and published by WikiLeaks in 2010, Noori was considered to be a high-risk Gitmo inmate of high intelligence value who ahead of his Dec. 2001 capture was the Taliban governor for the Balkh and Laghman provinces in Afghanistan and “wanted by the United Nations (UN) for possible war crimes.” As the Los Angeles Times reported this week, however, Noori’s name is absent from several war crimes reports conducted by the UN and other agencies.

Nevertheless, a Taliban commander told NBC that Noori “kept insisting he would go to Afghanistan and fight American forces there” after he arrived in Qatar this week.

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Actually, all it does is show just how weak of an argument you have. If one can call what you present an argument at all.

How about this?? He doesn't decide who remains in prison, the US Gov't does. Deal with it. Or better yet, go back to your communist roots and quit bashing what we do in America as if your opinion matters one little bit...

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Interesting you quote this article - must not have read it to the end.

The White House said Tuesday the President had exercised his constitutional authority out of a sense of urgency for Bergdahl’s safety. “Delaying the transfer in order to provide the 30-day notice would interfere with the Executive’s performance of two related functions that the Constitution assigns to the President: protecting the lives of Americans abroad and protecting U.S. soldiers,” National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in a statement released to the press. “Because such interference would significantly alter the balance between Congress and the President, and could even raise constitutional concerns, we believe it is fair to conclude that Congress did not intend that the Administration would be barred from taking the action it did in these circumstances,” Hayden said.

Jack Goldsmith, a Bush administration veteran of the battles between the executive branch and Congress over Commander-in-Chief powers in the war against terrorists, says Obama may have been acting legally. On the website Lawfare Tuesday he wrote, “If the statute impinged on an exclusive presidential power, the president properly disregarded it and did not violate it.”

And all of a sudden, it's not as black and white as you would like to believe.

OMG, what a laughable attempt at a defense. He's been a POW for 5 years... Suddenly 30 days is an emergency situation??? Only if one also believes in Martians...

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Of course I read it to the end. You seem incapable of posting without an attempt to insult. Apparently one of your weaknesses.

UncleBeer, it's all he has. Please don't take that away from him, or he will have zero substance. It's not a weakness, it's his ONLY strength!!

[Jacque67 7,328]

Lock up the liquor cabinet!

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

How about this?? He doesn't decide who remains in prison, the US Gov't does. Deal with it. Or better yet, go back to your communist roots and quit bashing what we do in America as if your opinion matters one little bit...

Problem is that the President thinks , he is the Government

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Actually, all it does is show just how weak of an argument you have. If one can call what you present an argument at all.

How about this?? He doesn't decide who remains in prison, the US Gov't does. Deal with it. Or better yet, go back to your communist roots and quit bashing what we do in America as if your opinion matters one little bit...

The post I responded to was quite weak but here we have an even weaker one. You should get used to the reality that 1) I can live where I want to and 2) say what I want to. After all, that's how we do things in America. You should read up on that some time. But for the time being, why don't you just deal with it.

[Jacque67 7,328]

The post I responded to was quite weak but here we have an even weaker one. You should get used to the reality that 1) I can live where I want to and 2) say what I want to. After all, that's how we do things in America. You should read up on that some time. But for the time being, why don't you just deal with it.

Get a room, you two!