Franklin D. Roosevelt: War Criminal?

This one has long baffled me, George W. Bush is claimed to be war criminal because he had three, count em, terrorists interrogated.   Winston Churchill was supposed to be a war criminal because he ordered the fire bombing of Dresden

After pigging out on hamburgers, Barack Obama tries a new diet, crow;  Micheal Goldfarb, Weekly Standard:

Obama Accepts False Choice of Military Commissions

Passed to a friendly reporter at the Washington Post late on a Friday afternoon is

The Obama administration is stuck on stupid    Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine, provides a hint of possible Obama adminstration plan to try a Clinton like weasel on the release of terrorists into the United States:

Speaker Tablecloth, Nancy Pelosi, knew about the Bush admintration enhanced interrogation from Day One.   Michelle has the story:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew from September 2, 2002 that enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, were being used on jihadi detainees.

More,

Recall Geraghty’s Law:

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Gateway Pundit:

Candidate Barack Obama promised to shut down the military tribunals of Gitmo detainees.
Obama wanted US trials for the Islamic terrorists.

This is rich.

In my view, this oughta be required viewing in any PolSci class.

The Honorable Eric H. Holder, Jr.
Attorney General of the United States
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20530-0001

Dear Attorney General Holder:

This letter is respectfully submitted to inform you that I must decline

One, I am taking the liberty of editing Patterico , just a wee bit:

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (and Dick and Lynn Cheney daughter) Liz Cheney rips Norah O’Donnell a new.

Two, I second Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard

James at OTB:

Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, proclaimed yesterday that the United States must prosecute the lawyers who drew up the torture memos and that if we fail to do so it is the duty of

Eric Cartman meets Bart Simpson and goes Palestinian? A political cartoon, not for the easily offended with both an edge and a blast, McClatcchy:

JERUSALEM — Ahmed and Salim appear to be typical teenage brothers.

They spend hours in

As Bit rambled:

Ignored his advisors: About everyone, including his current CIA director begged Obama not to release those interrogation memos. Guess Soros trumps all that.

From R. Jeffrey Smith, Michael D. Shear and Walter Pincus Washington Post

Clarice Feldman at Pajamas Media nails it cleanly:

As the president released the memos, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter to his agents:

In releasing these memos, the men and women of the CIA have assurances from both myself,

Dave Schuler at OTB:

Germany is concerned about the Taliban fighters nearing Pakistan’s Islamabad capital:

BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) – Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan’s capital and urged the government in Islamabad

American Heroes

That’s what we ought to call the men and women who interrogated the worst of the worst. For those most committed to the ridiculous crusade for terrorist rights, “enhanced interrogation” is not only immoral and illegal, it’s ineffective.

The same twit, Mrs. Clnton, who deems former Vice President Richard Cheney not to a reliable source, continues to preach out reach to her so-called moderate Taliban, Daily Times Monitaor(PK):

Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spent most