What if Holder shocks the world and sticks to his guns at the confirmation hearing? It’ll be fun to have the media suddenly reconsider and decide after seven years that Geneva protections are overrated after all.

Hope!

we would want them to be treated in an appropriate way consistent with the Geneva Convention.

I believe the Geneva Convention says you can take them out and shoot them. I am all for that.

P.S. Compare the sleazy way the Clintons begged for money for that library with the way GWB is leaving office. Any mention of his library or further plans? NO!

highhopes on November 24, 2008 at 9:10 PM

Lets not forget how the Clintoons STOLE furniture from the WH when they KNEW it wasn’t theirs to take!

Of all the morally banckrupt things the Clintoons did while in office stealing furniture from the WH on their way out was one of the most disgusting and telling things about the Clintoon presidency and its legacy of ineptness and immorality!

Bishop on November 24, 2008 at 9:38 PM

ha ha I thought this guy looked familiar.

I read that differently. I think he is saying they cannot be prisoners of war (and thus entitled to Geneva protections) because they are common criminals and there is no ‘war’. The Gorelick doctarine of treating terrorism as a civil police problem. Foreign terrorists are entitled to the civil protections afforded US citizens for, say, robbing a bank, or shoplifting.

I’d say that it’s time to send the Uighars home to China, and to subject all prisoners to the same rules to which our own soldiers are subject. In other words, if someone tosses a bag of poo on one of our soldiers, lets treat him as if our soldier had tossed a bag of poo on him.

Creepy mustache.

SouthernGent on November 24, 2008 at 9:06 PM

I agree, the mustache is creepy, as is this guy altogether.

First, there is a mountain;
then there is no mountain;
then there is.

(Catchy tune, also.)

Obama AG 2002: Terrorists aren’t protected by the Geneva Conventions

Oh, now. You can’t hold him to this. Even Nancy Pelosi was tough on terror in 2002. Let’s just be happy the threat no longer exists.
In fairness to Holder,……

That suggests that the bastard-elect will actually settle on specific policies different than the current administration. That would require and agenda and a plan and I’m still waiting for both.

highhopes on November 24, 2008 at 10:25 PM

Actually, it suggests that it doesn’t matter what Obama’s policies are. He’s centrist! I know he’s centrist because I am told over and over ad infinitum that he is. That proves his policies, whatever they are, are better than Bush’s.

Well well well. The wonders of video. How will he wiggle out of this one?

Easy. It doesn’t make page 63 in the NYT.

President Obama is not President Bush, therefore there’s no need to oppose his policies. Duh.

JohnJ on November 24, 2008 at 10:15 PM

That suggests that the bastard-elect will actually settle on specific policies different than the current administration. That would require and agenda and a plan and I’m still waiting for both.

2. I’m relieved that Obama is choosing sane people with experience for many of his cabinet level advisors.