Once again, the Rethuglicans have begun ranting about how the Obama Administration is horrible, just horrible, for reading terror suspects their rights (with the opposite being argued by Glenn Beck. Whoda thunk?)
Never mind that the latest arrest was of an American citizen, and there is no choice but to treat it as a criminal case. Never mind that that requires reading rights. Here is the real point:
Tbis is, without a doubt, an example of the Repubs screwing with national terrorism policies for political gain. They did it when they had the presidency, now they are doing it wihen they are out. On an issue where Americans should be united, they are sniveling and tearing, damaging America and hurting its citizens for their own benefit.
And this is easily provable. For eight years, when the Bush Administration was in office, the Thugs stood by, saying nothing when terror suspects were arrested, read their rights, and taken to trial. Oh, but the thugs say, that was just a couple of times -- Zacharias Moussaoui and John Walker Lindh. And only because of special circumstances.
That is a crock. Here, in alphabetical order, are all of the terror suspects arrested, read their rights, and taken to trial during the Bush Administration. Please feel free to count up the number.
- Akram Musa Abdallah
- Mohamad Fouad Abdallah
- Rahmat Abdhir
- Nuradin Abdi
- Samir Abdoun
- Abdow Abdow
- Luqman Abdullah et al.
- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
- Ahmed Omar Abu Ali
- Hassan Abu-Jihaad
- Babar Ahmad
- Attiqullah Sayed Ahmadi
- Hazam Ali Ahmed
- Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed
- Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed
- Sadeq Naji Ahmed
- Syed Haris Ahmed & Ehsanul Islam Sadequee
- Syed Ahsan
- Abdurahman Alamoudi
- Hasan Saddiq Faseh Alddin
- Adarus Abdelle Ali
- Amen Ahmed Ali et al.
- Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari & Brian Anderson
- Mohammed Alkaramla
- Ali Mohammed Abboud Almosaleh
- Abdullah Alnoshan & Khalid Fadlalla
- Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari et al.
- Ali Amirnazmi
- Ryan Anderson
- Amir Hossein Ardebili
- Yassin Muhiddin Aref & Mohammed Mosharref Hossain
- Sami Al-Arian
- Abdelhaleem Ashqar et al.
- Fawzi Mustapha Assi
- Anwar al-Awlaki
- Hasan Ali Ayesh & William Miller
- Mohamed Junaid Babar
- Sajid Badat
- Jamal Al-Badawi & Fahd Al-Quso
- Haji Bagcho
- Dhiren Barot et al.
- Narseal Batiste et al.
- Sabri Benkahla
- Bilal Adullah Ben Benu
- Soliman Biheiri
- Moussa Bitar
- Viktor Bout
- Daniel Patrick Boyd et al.
- Yasser Khareddin Bushnaq
- Cedric Carpenter & Lamont Ranson
- Talal Chahine et al.
- Ali Asad Chandia & Mohammed Amjal Khan
- Yi-Lan Chen
- Fayez Damra
- Fawaz Damra
- Bassam Darwishahmad
- Russell Defreitas et al.
- Wessam Al-Delaema
- Saubhe Jassim Al-Dellemy
- Ahmed Muhammed Dhakane
- Mohammad Amin Doudzai & Nadia Naemm
- Ghassan Elashi et al.
- Ali Khalil Elreda et al.
- Mohamad Elzahabi
- Cabdulaahi Ahmed Faarax and Abdiweli Yassin
- Foad Farahi
- Moneer Farhat
- Baktash Fattahi et al.
- Iyman Faris
- Michael Finton
- Adam Gadahn
- Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan
- Wagdy Mohamed Ghoneim
- Mohamed Ahmed Hassan Ghorab
- Yahya Goba et al.
- Ronald Allen Grecula
- Madhatta Haipe
- Zayead Christopher Hajaig & Rabea Hajaig
- Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan
- Amjad Mustafa Hamed
- Bassam Hisham Hamed et al.
- Mourad El Hamyani
- Muthanna al-Hanooti
- Mokhtar Haouari
- Naveed Afzal Haq
- Chekri Mahmoud Harb et al.
- Malik Nidal Hasan
- Syed Hashmi
- Kamal Said Hassan
- Marwan Othman El-Hindi et al.
- Hassan Hodroj et al.
- Richard David Hupper
- Mohammed Kamel Ibrahim & Sampson Lovelace Boateng
- Atef Hasan Ismail Idais
- Islamic American Relief Agency et al.
- Ayman Ismail
- Abdifatah Yusuf Isse and Salah Osman Ahmed
- Javed Iqbal & Saleh Elahwal
- Arwah Jabar
- Mohammed Mansour Jabarah
- Darrick Jackson
- Farshid Jahedi
- Kevin James et al.
- Maher Amin Jaradat
- Tariq Javid
- Abdel Baset Jawad et al.
- Ahmad & Musa Jebril
- Monzer Al Kassar et al.
- Betim Kaziu
- Hassan Saied Keshari et al.
- Abdullah Ahmed Khadr
- Lafi Khalil & Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer
- Muhammad Khalil
- Haji Juma Khan
- Raja Lahrasib Khan
- Hossein Ali Khoshnevisrad
- Jimmy Lee King
- Karim Koubriti & Ahmed Hannan
- Sadek Mohamad Koumaiha et al.
- Mahmoud Youssef Kourani
- Robert Kraaipoel et al.
- Shamsha Laiwalla
- Hemant Lakhani
- Colleen LaRose
- Samuel Lewis
- John Walker Lindh
- Mahmoud Maawad
- Mac Aviation Group et al.
- Daniel Maldonado
- Sam Malkandi
- Noureddine Malki
- Nabil Al-Marabh
- Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
- Mohamad Mustapha Ali Masfaka
- Majid Al-Massari
- Abu Hamza al-Masri et al.
- Muhammad Masood
- Farhoud Masoumian et al.
- Youssef Samir Megahed & Ahmed Abellatif Sharif Mohammed
- Tarek Mehanna
- Ahmed Merzouk
- Brano Milovanovic et al.
- Mohammed Al-Moayad & Mohammed Zayed
- Omer Abdi Mohamed
- Baz Mohammad
- Khan Mohammed
- Mazen Mokhtar
- Jacques Monsieur & Dara Fotouhi
- Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi
- Karim Moussaoui
- Zacarias Moussaoui
- Nasir Ali Mubarak
- Muhamed Mubayyid et al.
- Ahmed Al-Mughassil et al.
- Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammed
- Khamal Muhammad
- Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse
- Sajjad Nasser
- Patrick Nayyar and Conrad Stanisclaus Mulholland
- Ahmadullah Sais Niazi
- Bashir Noorzai
- Mahmoud Nusier et al.
- Mohammad Radwan Obeid
- Mahamud Said Omar
- Jose Padilla et al.
- Uzair Paracha
- Christopher Paul
- Dean Proffitt et al.
- Nada Nadim Prouty et al.
- Mohammad Salman Farooq Qureshi
- Tahawwur Hussain Rana and David Coleman Headley
- Saifullah Ranjha et al.
- Richard Reid
- Ahmed Ressam
- Michael Reynolds
- Raed Abdul-Rahman Alsaif
- Khaled Safadi et al.
- Reza Safarha et al.
- Mustafa Salat et al.
- Pete Seda & Soliman Hamd Al-Buthe
- Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban
- Tarik Shah & Rafiq Sabir
- Faisal Shahzad
- Derrick Shareef
- Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh
- Hamid Sheikh
- Najib Shemami
- Mohamed Ibrahim Shnewer et al.
- Mohamed Shorbagi
- Adnan El Shukrijumah
- Ruben Shumpert
- Aafia Siddiqui
- Shahawar Matin Siraj & James Elshafay
- Riad Skaff
- Hosam Maher Husein Smadi
- Nabil Soliman
- Dani Nemr Tarraf et al.
- Zeinab Teleb-Jedi
- Ali Al-Timimi
- Harouna Touré et al.
- Ernest James Ujaama
- Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily
- Bryant Neal Vinas
- Laura Wang-Woodford & Brian Woodford
- Mohammed Warsame
- Li Fang Wei et al.
- David Williams et al.
- Kobie Williams et al.
- Ali Akbar Yahya et al.
- Fawaz Yunis
- Mohammad Ishaq Zafar & Mohammad Tariq Randhawa
- Najibullah Zazi et al.
- Oussama Abdul Ziade & Buford George Peterson
That's right - 213 cases, with 235 defendants. Without a peep from the Thuglicans.
So next time one of them makes this argument, just tell them to shut the f*** up, because they don't know a damn thing about terror policy. Or don't care.