President Obama to Adhere to Bush’s Policy on Afghan Prisoners

 Today the Justice Department filed a briefing that they would continue President Bush’s policies for dealing with prisoners held in Afghanistan.

In a short legal filing, Justice Department lawyers said they planned to maintain the Bush administration’s claim that the roughly 600 prisoners held in Afghanistan have no right to contest their detention in the courts. “The Government adheres to its previously articulated position,” the attorneys said.

 On matters of the war on terror President Obama seems to be deferring to President Bush’s policies, with the exception of GITMO (which I still feel he will not shut down), and that has to offend the anti-war crowd who expected him to end the war.

Bagram is in a theater of war where the United States is engaged in active hostilities,” so extending those legal rights to the prisoners would be “impracticable,” Justice Department lawyers argued in a brief filed last November. They also argued that the habeas petitions are barred by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, a law Obama vocally opposed.

 President Obama opposed the law back then but he was only candidate Obama at that point, he would say anything to get elected. And he did, and was. By adhering to President Bush’s policies the president is doing the right thing, regardless of the promises he made during the campaign.

 Sure this is yet another broken promise but this is the right call, and I believe that he never intended to do anything other than to carry on with President Bush’s policies in regards to the war. That is why he had so many different opinions during the campaign about ending the war, he always intended to continue Bush’s policies, he just couldn’t admit it.

 How do you people who voted for Obama on the hope that he would end the war feel now? You must feel like you were duped.

 You were.