Originally Posted by dksuddeth

Today, President Obama un-suspended the scheduled tribunals for Gitmo detainees. It seems, upon further review, the Bush Administration policy of dealing with enemy combatants, is the best way to deal with the situation. This follows a barrage of other actions taken by the Obama Administration in recent weeks, which have to be frustrating to the left-wing anti-war radicals of his party.

Yes, we have seen the Obama Justice Department lawyers, doing an about-face on the Rendition Program... You recall, this was the program the left wanted to try Bush for war crimes over, but Obama attorneys say... meh, not so bad, we want to keep it! Likewise with the designation of "enemy combatant", it hasn't gone away with Bush.

At the start of his presidential bid, Obama said he planned to withdraw American forces from Iraq within 6 months. Before the Democrat primaries were over, this had been stretched to 9 months, and by the time the general election was over, it was up to 18 months, which coincidentally just happened to coincide with the Bush Administration's own estimate for a draw down. Last month, Obama announced another 15,000 troops will be heading to Iraq, and 17,000 to Afghanistan. Curiously enough, there is still no date circled in red on the calendar for American withdrawal from Iraq. Most experts conservatively say 2011 is the soonest we could see a major draw down of forces in the region.

The Obama Justice Department, not only lobbied to keep the Bush Administration policy of warrant-less wiretapping, they sought to extend the program beyond it's current limitations. So, apparently, this is not an "impeachable offense" of Bush violating our Constitutional rights at all. Apparently, it is typical of the Executive Branch throughout history, and Bush using these executive powers is really no different than Obama using them, or Truman, Roosevelt, Lincoln, etc.

It's amazing to watch Obama transform the Pinheads. All of this absolute bs he fed them during the primaries and general election, is now having to be re-thunk. He can't exactly do what he promised, he is caught between his slick polished Harvard poli-sci debate rhetoric, and the real world he is faced with. Reality being, he can't bring the troops home, he can't remove the tools we are using to keep America safe from attack. It's easy to say you are going to do this or that, but reality says there are many variables to every issue, every decision, every move. In the coming weeks, I am sure we will be entertained with valuable and wise press conferences from The One himself, to explain it all to us.