We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:27:38 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification [Kat] (Moved by ry to the proper day) I'll start very simply: Who thinks that Osama bin Laden will be captured alive to stand trial? Leave your answer in comments. Now, on with the commentary. While I understand Obama's lawyerly obsession with Nuremburg as the epitome of trying war criminals, it is obviously a safe answer to give because there is a less than .01% probability that Osama will be taken alive. Thus, Obama panders to his base while never likely to have to test his policy in reality. It is very much more likely that Osama will meet his... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:57:13 -0600 Happily for me I doubt he could even find my country with both hands and a brace of bloodhounds. Isn't New Zealand a Blue State, like the rest of New England? *putting extra shoring in the bunker*]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74550 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74550 Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:09:23 -0600 If you want a president who thinks Jerusalem is the capital of Israel then go nuts, he's your boy. Outstanding potential for foriegn policies there I'm thinking. Otherwise you know where to cast your vote. Happily for me I doubt he could even find my country with both hands and a brace of bloodhounds. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74545 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74545 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:45:08 -0600 subpeonas that America's finest legal minds can produce. Bin Laden will soil his pants!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74533 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74533 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:01:34 -0600 Hey, I heard Obama's going to try to avoid Bush's failure at Tora Bora by invading Waziristan with 2 whole divisions of US Army and Marines. And without worrying about Pak nukes or destabilizing the tenuous political situation with the Islamist radicals in Pakistan. As soon as his aides can teach him how many personnel are in 2 divisions! LOL http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74531 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74531 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:57:04 -0600 unilaterally, because NONE of our allies will be coming along for that ride. That Obama is pure USDA cowboy!]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74530 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74530 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:38:38 -0600 Of course, first we have to have a president who's interested in catching Osama, right? Then we worry about the trial. Dude, isn't it the problem now? Everybody waited until we had people in custody before setting out the rules and regulations under which they would be identified and then tried by the tribunal? Isn't that your complaint from yesterday? You know, holding them so long it creates a habeas situation that only the Supreme Courts and the Chosen can fix? ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74529 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74529 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:33:34 -0600 [reaches for more popcorn] http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74528 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74528 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:13:29 -0600 released due to inadequate evidence, and he then fled to Iraq where he was harbored by Saddam - although the Left assures us there were no terrorists in Iraq before BushCo invaded in 2003. It's hard to keep up with the Left's contradictory arguments. Which story are they using today?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74526 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74526 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:37:10 -0600 "Of course, first we have to have a president who's interested in catching Osama, right?" You know, I don't understand the Left's obsessive mocking of Bush's failure to catch OBL. I thought the Left's argument has been that 9/11 was an "inside" job perpetrated by the evil cabal of BushCo, and that the whole "war on terror" thing was bogus. Perhaps we'll find OBL when we finally catch Abdul Rahman Yasin - who Clinton still has not found 15 years after the first WTC attack in 1993.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74525 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74525 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:29:54 -0600 who's interested in catching Osama, right? Then we worry about the trial. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74522 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74522 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:53:10 -0600 ex post facto, and were hence illegal according to Common Law? That sounds like his sort of gig. ]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74521 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74521 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:51:37 -0600 I firmly believe that Osama is dead, and has been for a couple of years. Had he been alive, he would have appreared in any number of recent videos. As it is, all we are ever fed is still pictures of him from the past, and patched-together audio tracks, sections of which are lifted from earlier speeches. If, by some miracle, he is still alive, then i would strongly suggest that he is no longer in the ME, but somewhere in Africa, most likely Somalia. Respects, http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74511 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74511 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:12:22 -0600 Kat, I am beginning to wonder if Obama any meaningful knowledge of history. Judging from what he has said about the “57 states” I am doubtful he does. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74508 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74508 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:55 -0600 http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/06/020784.php Obama (June 16, 2008): "It is my firm belief that we can track terrorists, we can crack down on threats against the United States. But we can do so within the constraints of our Constitution. Let's take the example of Guantanamo. What we know is that in previous terrorist attacks, for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated." Andrew McCarthy (the lead prosecutor of the perpetrators of the 1993 WTC attack) comments: This is a remarkably ignorant account of the American experience with jihadism. In point of fact, while the government managed to prosecute many people responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing, many also escaped prosecution because of the limits on civilian criminal prosecution. Some who contributed to the attack, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, continued to operate freely because they were beyond the system’s capacity to apprehend. Abdul Rahman Yasin was released prematurely because there was not sufficient evidence to hold him — he fled to Iraq, where he was harbored for a decade (and has never been apprehended). Fled to Iraq? Harbored by Saddam Hussein? Before the US invasion? This contradicts the assertion by Obama and the Left that there were no terrorists in Iraq before the war.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74507 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/06/nuremberg_osama.html#comment-74507 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:56:31 -0600