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Oh, the audacity of it all...
At one time not so long ago, Obama's public position on military trials for terrorists like Kalid Shiek Muhammand was the same as your so-called "fear-pimping sick cultists": "You will hear opponents say that this bill gives all kinds of rights to terrorist masterminds like Kalid Shiek Muhammand. I want to repeat, that is not true. The irony of the underlying bill as written is that someone like Kalid Shiek Muhammand is basically going to get a full military trial with all the bells and whistles. He's gonna have counsel, he's gonna present evidence. He's gonna be able to rebut the government's case, because the feeling is that he's guilty of a war crime and to do otherwise might violate some of our agreements under the Geneva Conventions. I think that's good that we are going to provide him with some procedure and process. I think that we will convict him and that he will be brought to justice. I think that justice will be carried out in his case."
The above quote is the testimony given by Senator Barack Obama on 9/27/2006 in support of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 during the floor debate of this bill which would authorize trial by military commission for violations of the laws of war. The "underlying bill as written" [[HR-6166) was passed and signed into law on 10/17/2006.
This position was part of Obama's very thin public record on which the voters could judge him during his campaign for the Presidency. Now that he is in office, can you spell "bait and switch"?
Oh, the audacity of it all...