{"id":26788,"date":"2011-10-02T08:51:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T12:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26788"},"modified":"2011-10-02T08:51:54","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T12:51:54","slug":"obama-policy-setting-troop-killers-free-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26788","title":{"rendered":"Obama policy setting troop killers free in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiernan Lalor writes in the Washington Examiner<\/a> that the Obama Administration’s indecision over Guantanamo is setting free non-Iraqi murderers in Iraq. he tells the story of two Marines, John McKenna and Michael Glover who were killed on patrol in Fallujah five years go by Muhammad Awwad Ahmad. <\/p>\n

Recently, the families of the fallen learned from the Defense Department U.S. forces turned Ahmad over to Iraqi authorities in June 2010, and that an Iraqi court set him free four months later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lalor explains the difference between the Bush and Obama Administrations’ policies that enabled Ahmad to escape any real punishment;<\/p>\n

Under the Iraq Security Agreement signed by the Bush administration in 2008, all detainees left in Iraq by the end of 2011 have to be turned over to the Iraqis. For the most part, the Bush White House was giving the pickpockets and common criminals over to the Iraqis but moving dangerous terrorists who had killed Americans to places like Guantanamo Bay to be held for military trials.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration wanted to shutter Gitmo and believed that enemy combatants captured on overseas battlefields deserved federal civilian trials. When American public opinion thwarted this policy, Obama found himself boxed into a self-created ideological corner. Rather than adjust the flawed position, the administration began turning over to the Iraqis even non-Iraqi terrorists who killed Americans in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such is the “leadership” of this administration. Their inability to make effective policy undoes the sacrifice of American troops around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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