Critics accused the president of caving in again to pressure from some Republicans on a counter-terrorism issue for fear of being painted in next year's election campaign as weak and of failing to defend America.
Human Rights Watch said that by signing the bill Obama would go down in history as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial in US law.
it was that sort of thinking that caused broad approval for invading afganistan and iraq! it was wrong then, it's wrong now. once again, more worry about re-election than in doing what's right.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
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