So evidently he’s already set up to be tried in US District Courts. I don’t know if that’s the only indictment he has.

UPDATE: Again Aye Chi and I are furiously typing simultaneously… da in sync minds continue.

In my estimation, he would herald it as another “the system worked” moment.

The only law applicable to the battlefield is the Law of Land Warfare and the Geneva Conventions.

Those laws make it rather clear what should happen to OBL if he is ever captured.

However, I happen to believe that his bones are a mouldering in a cave somewhere and we won’t ever have to cross that bridge.

Stix, if OBL is ever brought onto US soil for trial he will, ironically enough, go to New York City which is where he was indicted for the embassy bombings.

Somehow I don’t see him finding a judge who wouldn’t need to recuse him/herself from the case and can you imagine what jury selection would be like?

Osama bin Laden should not be tried under US Law, he is not a US citizen, and will not be caught on US soil. Simply there is no way any terrorists should be tried in any US court.

The Supreme Court just gave everyone in the World a US Citizenship.

A civilized democratic country, founded on, and still adherent to, the rule of law.

“…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.”

And we all know how effective THAT was in preventing any future attack.

Failed how? No attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11 and no recent terror attacks on U.S. interests or persons anywhere in the world.

How is that a failure? What would Obama do better? He never says.

I like the part of Jake Tapper’s question that precedes Obama’s answer:

there has not been a terrorist attack within the U.S. since 9/11. And they say the reason that is, is because of the domestic programs, many of which you opposed, the NSA surveillance program, Guantanamo Bay, and other programs. How do you know that they’re wrong? It’s not possible that they’re right?

How many of these terror plots have been foiled directly due to the Bush “failed strategy”?

Had we not been taking aggressive measures to PREVENT another terrorist attack we might have lost those passenger jets over the Atlantic from Britain a couple of years ago with thousands dead and their bodies never recovered. I could go on and cite many, MANY other examples.

How is that the Obamatons can say such crap with a straight face?

First the typical pol response to anything… let’s get the BDS victims cheering again with the same ol, same ol…

“These are the same guys who helped to engineer the distraction of the war in Iraq at a time when we could’ve pinned down the people who actually committed 9/11,” Mr. Obama said, speaking to reporters aboard his campaign plane. “In part because of their failed strategies, we’ve got bin Laden still sending out audio tapes, so I don’t think they have much standing to suggest that they’ve learned a lot of lessons from 9/11.”

If memory serves me right, Congress played a HUGE role in that engineered “distraction” with the AUMF. Oh yes… BHO couldnt’ know that. He wasn’t there! He was against it, before he could actually be held accountable one way or another.

“What they are trying to do is what they’ve done every election cycle, which is to use terrorism as a club to make the American people afraid – to win elections,” he said.

Ah yes, the ol’ “fear” tactic they accuse the GOP of, while simultaneously using the “fear” tactic *against* the GOP. Huh?

“The simple point that I was making, which I will continue to make throughout this campaign, is that we can abide by due process and abide by basic concepts of rule of law and still crack down on terrorists,” Mr. Obama said. “None of the folks that were speaking for McCain today have given us one bit of information that would suggest that as a consequence of the court’s ruling, terrorists will be able to attack America more effectively.”

All in all, this last statement is boldly – and prematurely – spoken since we have yet to encounter what classified evidence may be demanded, what witnesses may be called, etal. After all, SCOTUS nipped a process created by Congress (evidently sans Obama…) in the bud, before it could ever be used.

Will His Messiahship change his tune when lawyers in a court demand classified info, or suggest that the case be thrown out when it’s not provided? How about when they attempt to haul an undercover informer into court for the accused to confront?

That BHO can not see the “consequences” of the court ruling, right along with the “blind” majority justices, suggests we all might be headed up sheeeeeet’s creek, paddle’less.

Against that backdrop [the Boudemaine decision], navy Lt.-Cmdr. Bill Kuebler, Khadr’s military-appointed defence lawyer, will use Wednesday’s hearing to argue that the entire case against the Toronto-born accused terrorist should be thrown out on grounds U.S. authorities have never told him of his rights.

John F’n Kerry said today that Osama, if captured, deserves his day in court.

Unreal.

07/19/2007

Bill Title
Sense of the Senate on Guantanamo Bay
Detainees S Amdt 2351

Vote by Obama
NV

Result
Amendment Adopted –
Senate (94 – 3)

Vote to pass an amendment that expresses the sense of the Senate that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay should not be released into American society or transferred into detention facilities on American soil.

Official Title of Legislation:

S Amdt 2351 to S Amdt 2327 to HR 2669: To express the sense of the Senate on the detainees of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Way to go Obama