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December 28, 2010
Obama wrong again ...
Topics: Political News and commentariesAs for Barack Obama's consistent drumbeat of "Gitmo Is Major Al-Qaeda Recruitment Tool" ...
"We can regain the moral high ground in the battle against these terrorist organizations. There is no bigger propaganda weapon for many of these extremists than pointing to Guantanamo and saying that we don't live up to our own ideals."Well, to put it nicely (and not say he's purposefully lying), he's simply dead wrong.
From The Weekly Standard via Jim Hoft:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD has reviewed translations of 34 messages and interviews delivered by top al Qaeda leaders operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan ("Al Qaeda Central"), including Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri, since January 2009. The translations were published online by the NEFA Foundation. Guantanamo is mentioned in only 3 of the 34 messages. The other 31 messages contain no reference to Guantanamo. And even in the three messages in which al Qaeda mentions the detention facility it is not a prominent theme.The "moral high ground" and "Gitma is an al=Qaeda recruiting tool" arguments are getting stale, and were never valid. Obama, like most liberals, simply refuses to admit that the number one motivating factor in recruiting new terrorists is the ideology of radical Islam itself. But as Drew aptly notes at Ace's, to admit this would ruin their happy multi-culturalist world view. And indeed, it's almost as if Obama's Gitmo talking point is more about recruiting liberal voters than worrying about Islamic terrorists.
Posted by Richard at December 28, 2010 4:34 PM
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