http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/interrogating-enemy-combatants.html

Obama never said he disagreed with every single thing Bush did. He didn’t come into office to overturn everything. He said he will look at it all, what works he will keep, what doesn’t, he will get rid of. Clear and simple plan to me.
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Well put. It’s going to take time to weed out the destructive Bush policies and fine tune the few that actually helped secure the American people.

Rape, War, and Sharia Law in Muslim Nations

“I had thought it was simple.” Thus said the 20 year old brother of a 14 year old Afghani rape victim after he was arrested for using a razor blade to abort his sister’s baby.

The young girl had been raped by a construction worker and had the further misfortune of residing in an orthodox Islamic community where an illegitimate birth meant that she and her family would be treated like pariahs by their fellow Muslims. So her brother, Ali, took her to a cowshed and, as her mother helped restrain her, used the razor blade to slice open her womb. He removed the baby, buried it, then stitched up the wound with coarse string used to tie potato sacks. Ten days later, the girl was taken on a 30 mile donkey ride to a provincial hospital suffering from infection and later, to protect her from family and community members, was evacuated to Bagram Air Base where she remained in critical condition: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=41777.

Although such lurid and grotesque tales are not unheard of in Western, generally Christian societies, they rarely if ever result from religious motivations. More likely it is a jealous rival or a psychotic, wannabe mother who would perpetrate such acts. Sharia Law, based on the Koran or Qur’an, however, condones such measures to atone for the shame visited upon a family by the sin of being a rape victim.

The other side of the Koranic coin, the rapist’s side, is far more forgiving. The Koran mentions no specific punishment for rapists, the probable reason for their receiving light or no civil penalties, while the victim may receive a hundred lashes for causing the crime. The girls, if not stoned to death, are shunned by their fellow Muslims and their opportunities for a future marriage are nil.

Demonstrating a serious inconsistency, that same Koran denounces rape, except in the event of mitigating circumstances, namely the woman’s religion: The Koran encourages the rape of non-Muslim women, according to more than one source, including http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.australian/browse_thread/thread/74aa640b4928eaaa, which cites a number of verses to support that view.: “Koran clearly sanctions this. No Muslims can deny these verses. They are called “ma malakat aymanukum…. The Koran verses are: 23-6, 33-50, 33-52, 33-55, 70-30.”

That sanction and that crime against the Afghani girl and what they say about Muslim thought are interrelated with our wars in the Mideast.

As the war in Iraq seemingly winds down toward a victorious conclusion and as the companion war…

(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)

If Bush was REALLY as dishonest as the media hype… He would have simply planted WMD’s to be found on day one. The MSM missed the fact… Iraq is a big place and it’s easy to dig a hole, drop some WMD’s in it and cover it up.

Steve you are a bit clueless. The president CANNOT lie to Congress. The congressional leadership (both parties) are privy to the EXACT SAME intelligence reports as the president. This is done precisely so that the president cannot lie.

Who I really feel for are the law enforcement and military professionals that have to keep us safe with their hands tied.

I simply hope that more journalists will learn a “new” sense of neutrality, as Mr. Obama’s term in office continues — “new”, I say, as if such rational neutrality wasn’t already happening, rare though it may be in statistical terms, but happening where it is, and being represented, as it is, and consistently, by journalists such as Jim Lehrer.

…and Gwen Ifil?

It may be something of a contagious trend.

Sorry, no. Obama’s inauguration caught 35 times the news coverage… by actual measurement. Spare me the claim that the role of the press, particularly the government funded press, sucha s NPR isn’t playing the role of Democrat Party cheer leader in this new order.