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Originally Posted by CreativeMind
So, I guess it was okay to label Bush a chimp or use images portraying him as a monkey, yet when you call Obama that it becomes grounds for censorship and demanded public apologies and all sorts of pther things. Which brings us full circle to my post above about the laughable idea that today's mainstream media will ever go after Obama fairly versus acting as his perpetual press secretary and protector.
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Thou shalt not criticize Obama. That is illustrated in the mainstream media where hardly anyone noticed that Obama sent over 17000 troops to Afghanistan. And certainly no one here has criticized this when if Bush had done it, he would be called everything from Warmonger to Hitler.
There's also this:
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Originally Posted by NyTimes
"Even as it pulls back from harsh interrogations and other sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush's 'war on terrorism,' the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor's approach to fighting al-Qaeda. In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the CIA's program of transferring prisoners to other countries without legal rights, and indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects without trials even if they were arrested far from a war zone. The administration has also embraced the Bush legal team's arguments that a lawsuit by former C.I.A. detainees should be shut down based on the 'state secrets' doctrine. It has also left the door open to resuming military commission trials."
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Not to mention the troops he's committed to Afghanistan. Of course, I have no problem with this, but where is the outrage from all the peaceniks here? I guess it goes back to the Golden Rule:
Thou Shalt Not Criticize Obama