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I think Obama wants to avoid this whole issue if he can; the analysis Tim provided is accurate, I think.<br><br>I also oppose his continued bombings in Pakistan. These are consistent with what he said during his campaign, so they're not a broken promise, but I don't know how bombing someone else's country isn't an act of war.<br><br>Sunil<br><br>> From: timlohr@bresnan.net<br>> To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>> Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:02:09 -0600<br>> Subject: [Vision2020] Human Rights Activists: Obama Breaks Promise<br>> <br>> Vid. Clip:<br>> http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=339853<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Story:<br>> Obama Breaks Major Campaign Promise as Military Commissions Resume, Says <br>> Amnesty International<br>> <br>> http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090515.DC17891&show_article=1<br>> <br>> May 15 12:25 PM US/Eastern<br>> <br>> Obama Restarting Bush-Era Terror Tribunals<br>> Tribunal Decision Angers Obama’s Liberal Backers<br>> <br>> Human Rights Organization Reiterates Call for Detainees to be Tried in U.S. <br>> Federal Courts<br>> <br>> WASHINGTON, May 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to President Barack <br>> Obama restarting the military commissions at the U.S.-controlled detention <br>> facility in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International's executive director Larry <br>> Cox issued the following statement:<br>> <br>> "President Obama is reinstating the same deeply-flawed military commissions <br>> that in June 2008 he called an 'enormous failure.' In one swift move, Obama <br>> both backtracks on a major campaign promise to change the way the United <br>> States fights terrorism and undermines the nation's core respect for the rule <br>> of law by sacrificing due process for political expediency.<br>> <br>> "Whatever revisions the Obama administration has made to the commissions do <br>> not change the fact that the commissions do not provide an adequate standard <br>> of justice for the detainees nor the victims of terrorism -- they merely mock <br>> the U.S. Constitution, international laws and undermine fundamental human <br>> rights standards.<br>> <br>> "What happened to President Obama's confidence in the U.S. justice system's <br>> ability to try detainees? He himself said that 'we need not throw away 200 <br>> years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism.'<br>> <br>> <br>> "U.S. federal courts are a perfectly sound system to try any and all <br>> detainees. They have brought other terror suspects to justice, and there is no <br>> reason why these courts cannot continue to do the same."<br>> <br>> Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist <br>> organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers <br>> in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The <br>> organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the <br>> public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and <br>> dignity are denied.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> For more information, please visit: www.amnestyusa.org<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> SOURCE Amnesty International<br>> Copyright 2009 PR Newswire. All Rights Reserved.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> =======================================================<br>> List services made available by First Step Internet, <br>> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <br>> http://www.fsr.net <br>> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>> =======================================================<br></body>
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