Statements about Terrorism
Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... ."
"There have been three people tried and convicted by the last administration in military courts. Two are walking the street right now."
President Barack Obama's "initial response when we heard about the Christmas underwear bomber" was to say that "this was the act of an isolated extremist."
The Bush administration prosecuted 190 suspected terrorists in federal courts.
President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
Guantanamo Bay detainees will get the H1N1 vaccine.
Van Jones signed a petition indicating he "thinks the Bush administration blew up the World Trade Center and covered it up."
The Obama administration offered "$900 million to Hamas, a recognized terrorist organization, to rebuild Gaza."
"Under the new and little known 'global justice' initiative," the Obama administration has ordered FBI agents to "read Miranda Rights to high-value terrorist detainees captured on the battlefield."
"Some 500 detainees were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration."
"You've heard endlessly about waterboarding. It happened to three terrorists."
"Nobody has ever escaped from one of our federal 'supermax' prisons."
"The reality is, we are holding some of the most dangerous terrorists in the world right now in our federal prisons, including the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 'shoe bomber,' the 'Unabomber,' and many others."
On releasing photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners.
Democrats in Congress "had control since January of 2007. They haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal. They haven't gone into any of these things and changed law."
"We were not, I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
It is "the Department of Homeland Security's view that returning military veterans and gun owners are likely to commit terrorist acts."
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