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Rob, email Jon at brownstoner@brownstoner.com and tell him that you want your 11:01 taken down. Just do it and take it down. People here are busting your chops because it is FUN but take it down and don’t joke about joining the Taliban. The Taliban by the way is not the terrorist organization, it is Al Queda but the Taliban harbors and helps Al Queda in some cases (some parts of Afganistan, not all).
But don’t joke about it and get Jon to take down your post.
And spend 250 dollars to spend 2 days in Washington DC going by plane (US Airways) on a cheap flight. AND DO NOT EVER EVER make jokes about terrorism, weapons, etc. in an airport. That is something you don’t want to test out.
Just got word that, in a few minutes, much of the last hour’s OT will cease to make any sense to the casual and uninformed reader.
“Hotmail does not play well with other email hosts.”
That’s what I think. ‘specially after I got three email from you like 6 hours after they were sent!
“I think we all have to honestly testify to what *Rob* wrote when comes to trial. If it ever comes to trial.”
Don’t drag me into this! if I’m called to testify, I will state that Rob is an ASS, and his irresponsible nature got him into this. And then I’ll ask them how much $ they need for the jumpsuit.
bxgrl, you’re arguing with a member of the American Taliban.
OK…off to the Hedge Hog lunch.
No incorrect typing. Using my address book like I always do. Emails either show up hours and hours later, or not at all 🙁 Hotmail does not play well with other email hosts.
CGar, pass out some brownies to chill all of us out
be more severe than one from a federal court.
In addition, Mr. Ghailani may well serve his sentence at the “supermax†federal prison in Florence, Colo., where others convicted in the embassy bombings are confined. If so, he will spend more time in solitary and enjoy fewer privileges than those under the most restrictive measures at Guantánamo.
President Obama is in a no-win situation when it comes to trying detainees — any forum he chooses will set off critics on one side of the debate or the other. I hope he pauses to reflect on what he said at the National Archives in May 2009: “Some have derided our federal courts as incapable of handling the trials of terrorists. They are wrong. Our courts and our juries, our citizens, are tough enough to convict terrorists.â€
The Ghailani trial delivered justice. It did so safely and securely, while upholding the values that have defined America. Now Mr. Obama should stand up to the fear-mongers who want to take us back to the wrong side of history.
Morris Davis, a former Air Force colonel, was the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from 2005 to 2007. He is the director of the Crimes of War Project.