Bloomberg: We Should Try 9/11 Terrorists Near Site Of Attacks
Michael Bloomberg, who was elected mayor of New York City on the GOP line, is lending his support to Obama’s decision — widely criticized by Republicans today — to try Khalid Sheik Muhammad and his co-conspirators in a New York court. And Bloomberg says it’s “fitting” that the trial is taking place near the site of the attacks.
New York’s City Hall sends over Bloomberg’s statement, which puts him at odds with multiple Republican critics of the Obama administration’s decision:
“I support the Obama Administration’s decision to prosecute 9/11 terrorists here in New York. It is fitting that 9/11 suspects face justice near the World Trade Center site where so many New Yorkers were murdered. We have hosted terrorism trials before, including the trial of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
“When I spoke to Attorney General Holder earlier today, I told him New York City stands ready to assist the federal court in the administration of justice in any way necessary. I have great confidence that the NYPD, with federal authorities, will handle security expertly. The NYPD is the best police department in the world and it has experience dealing with high-profile terrorism suspects and any logistical issues that may come up during the trials.”
Bloomberg, obviously, has to support the decision since it has already been made and he would be expected to declare confidence in the cops’ ability to maintain security. But it’s interesting that Bloomberg seems determined to give Obama cover on the substance and symbolism of the decision, going out of his way to declare it “fitting” as an act of justice on behalf of the murdered.
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I’d guess they discussed this with Bloomberg prior to the decision.
At least Bloomberg has got a pair unlike the current Republican leadership and the pushover Dems.
Maybe sanity will prevail. IMO this should not be a political issue but a judicial issue, and all the talk from Republicans is nothing more than the usual, whatever Obama does is terrible for the country.
They wouldn’t know a smart decision if it hit them upside of the head. They’ve made their bed and now they’re stuck with it. Holder will do the right thing for the people of New York and the Country and after 8 years of limbo, it’s about time.
I wonder if Greg will offer up the Webb and Lieberman statements?
I guess sbj missed the post on Boehner’s criticism of the move…
Well, duh.
It makes perfect sense.
“O this should not be a political issue but a judicial issue”
no kidding.
“guess sbj missed the post on Boehner’s criticism of the move…”
I was going to suggest he go start his own blog and he can post those statemets, and any others he wants that you fail to provide, Greg.
“I guess sbj missed the post on Boehner’s criticism of the move.”
Hardly, but I fail to see mention of Democratic criticism of this decision by Holder there?
“They wouldn’t know a smart decision if it hit them upside of the head.”
The Repugs quit hanging around with Smart somewhere back in the day – around Nixon. Cause Ford, Reagan and Poppy weren’t bright and of course Commander CooCoo is the culmination of the entire trend to loving on Dumb.
This is not good enough Mayor Bloomberg. They must be executed first, in Bill Kristol’s office.
“Hardly, but I fail to see mention of Democratic criticism of this decision by Holder there”
So? There’s no rule that says Greg has to follow the “he said but he said” model the MSM follows – especially since that model has wrecked the American press.
Obama and Holder (and now Bloomberg) are absolutely right on this, and the screeching, cowardly loons merely trying score cheap political points on this issue are (as usual) wrong, and will be proven so.
Obama is smarter than all of his drooling, knuckle-dragging critics combined and, until he gives me a reason to do otherwise, I will trust HIS judgment on these matters, and not the mindless braying of two-bit, uber-partisan parasites, journalistic Villager Idiots and lily-livered, panty-waisted NEOCON/TEABAGGER COWARDS.
That is all.
sbj, Joe Lieberman is a Democrat?
Joe used to be a democrat, then he used to be an independent, now he’s just crazy.
Paging Operation Rescue.
Paging Operation Rescue.
Please grab you snow shovels. There has been a huge avalanche of “Snowflakes” into Michael Steele’s office.
And look carefully at the small list. Any Dem found opposing Obama on this is most likely pandering to his/her cowardly, toothless, brainless hillbilly teabagger constituency “back home,” just as some the Dem House members did on HCR. No profiles in courage here.
I particularly expect better of Senator Webb.
I HATE Michael Bloomberg. Of course he is 100% correct.
and the screeching, cowardly loons merely trying score cheap political points on this issue are (as usual) wrong, and will be proven so.
No, they’re just a bunch of bed-wetters. We’ve watched them piss themselves for most of this decade.
Look folks;
Those Right Wing incompetent imbeciles had those same people under their control for five or more years, and they never got anything resolved with them.
We do not need to be lectured to by a bunch of incompetent Imbeciles. They had no solutions, when they were in charge, so of course they are going to object, when someone actually tries to provide a reasonable clean-up solution to the mess that those incompetent right wing nut jobs created.
Like I keep saying, Liam – the Repugs have a hell of a lot of nerve to complain about anything after the Total Failure of their 8 years in power.
“sbj, Joe Lieberman is a Democrat?”
Touche.
He’s as much a Democrat as Bloomberg is a Republican.
You know, teabaggers really should take a page from the George Costanza playbook: Since every single instinct they’ve every had has been dead wrong, they could see a political renaissance simply by ignoring and doing the *complete opposite* of every impulse and instinct they’ve ever had….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUvKE3bQlY&feature=related
Think these proudly ignorant rubes might do it?
Nah — me either.
George is gettin’ upset!
Dishonest trolling by sbj. again.
or as much of a Republican as SBJ is a Libertarian.
Irony Irony Irony.
While Operation Rescue were occupying Speaker Pelosi’s Office,
Michael Steele’s Office was busy funding abortions.
Aye, I am not sure how many women the RNC has on its staff but…..what if some of them quit over the change in their health insurance?
Better question, and Greg maybe you can ask around. Did Michael Steele or anybody else at the RNC even so much as ask ANY of the women on their staff if it would be ok for them to change their benefits package. Wouldn’t hurt asking.
Liam: Irony Irony Irony.
Great point; I hadn’t thought of it that way.
Ah well, these amoral thugs will merely backslide out of this massive example of their usual hypocrisy just as they backslide on everything else.
I wonder if they’ll try to defend this latest self-inflicted clusterfluck by saying “But-but-but Clinton did too,” as they have with everything else….
“now he’s just crazy.”
Bitterness can do that to ya.
So… why aren’t we talking about the real news of the day, the discovery of water on the moon? Greg?
It actually should not be a problem for any of those women workers. When women sign on to go to work for The Republicans, they are required to put their Vag*inas in a lockbox.
OMG OMG – You know when we bombed the moon and the entire left seemed to go nuts over it?
It worked.
They found water on the moon.
See HuffPo’s lede.
Of course they should try the 9/11 suspects in the jurisdiction in which the crime was committed. That is how our system has worked for well over 200 years.
I don’t get it, SBJ, are you the blog police? Almost anyone who comes here has seen the Webb and Lieberman statements elsewhere. You almost give Greg too much power, like it didn’t happen unless he links to it.
Besides, if Lieberman says black, I say white.
Greg, what about Josh Duhamel and the stripper? Poor Fergie.
Greg,
What about Hootie and The Blowfish? Poor Mrs. Paul.
So how can the teabaggers spin water on the moon as a bad thing for Obama? Sorry, it’s Friday.
“That is how our system has worked for well over 200 years.”
Well, yeah.
On a serious note:
The more Troops we send, they more targets we are going to provide for this sort of thing. We need to reduce the number of forces their to about a quarter of the current level, instead of escalating it into a long term quagmire.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan
“KABUL – Britain’s prime minister said Friday that Europe may send 5,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan — affirming support for the NATO mission as the Obama administration nears a decision on increasing American troop levels.
The announcement came as the Taliban struck again in the capital. A suicide car bomber blasted a U.S. convoy near an American military base in Kabul, injuring nine American soldiers and 10 contract security guards. Three Afghans were killed in the attack — the biggest in Kabul in the last two weeks.”
“how can the teabaggers spin water on the moon as a bad thing for Obama?”
I’m sure there’s a God/Creation angle they can work.
Brain’s too Friday’d to put myself in their mental shoes. Very very small shoes.
Army Says Morale Down Among Troops In Afghanistan.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_troops_mental_health
“WASHINGTON – Morale has fallen among soldiers in Afghanistan, where troops are seeing record violence in the 8-year-old war, while those in Iraq show much improved mental health amid much lower violence, the Army said Friday. It was the first time since 2004 that soldier suicides in Iraq did not increase. Self-inflicted deaths in Afghanistan were on track to go up this year.”
Ethan, are you calling Cinderella a teabagger?
OMG! Kathleen! haha
Liam…
Surprise visit from Obama to improve morale?
I would also point out that the sampling size used by the military in that survey blows away all the U.S. pollsters!
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“Ethan, are you calling Cinderella a teabagge”
You have no idea how much I wish I’d said that.
LOLOL
God you are razor sharp today.
And Greg, you sure are a hard-working blogger. And prolific. And fast -
Andy-
…claiming she needs to stop Obama. Yawn.
“…claiming she needs to stop Obama. Yawn.”
Bwaaaaahahahahahaha!
And we’ll probably have this congenital freak or the even freakier congenital hot mess, Goodhair, again, as gov.
yay us.
# Andy | November 13th, 2009 at 05:31 pm
I would also point out that the sampling size used by the military in that survey blows away all the U.S. pollsters!
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And if anything, the problem is probably under admitted, because of the macho culture of the military, and a fear, on the part of some, that they might be identified.
All, roundup posted:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/terrorism/happy-hour-roundup-113/
Ethan, you are a teabagger and a Stalinist!
Another liberal circus; a ridiculous and self-promoting idea on the part both administrations. In addition to the obvious political benefits, opportunist New Yorker street merchants will soon be selling terrorist T-shirts in order to make a few bucks off of this morbid spectacle. It’s sick to try to capitalize on bloodlust, for whatever reason.
Shameless.
Should the guilty be hanged at Ground Zero too?
The right wing’s fear of the terrorists cripples their ability to fight against terrorism.
Clearly the right wing should let the militarily superior minds of the left wing to do the fighting and strategizing against terrorism.
After all, most of the cowardly Republican leadership never had the courage to serve in the military. And College Republicans have become infamous for their cowardice in avoiding military service these last eight years of war.
Republicans don’t even want to pay for the wars and even now it’s a Republican who is denying American military vets the benefits they earned with their military service.
And of course it was the American left-wing that won WWII.
And it was the American left-wing which took the fight against the Communists to Korea and Vietnam and Afghanistan.*
Right-wingers cut and ran. With rare (and commendable) exception, it’s what they do.
*See: Charlie Wilson’s War.
It would be criminal to try these animals anywhere but NYC. A NYC jury will be sure to convict these sub-humans and give them the death penalty. I’m on the fence about that though. I feel they should take them to Ground Zero, make them kiss the floor, and then burn them to bits for everyone to watch. Since that won’t happen, then maybe spending time in filthy Rikers Island with all the other psychos there would be worse than just frying them or giving them drugs to go to sleep – that would happen in minutes. Let them live in filth for the rest of their sorry lives and let Christian music play in their cells. That would really piss them off. They are garbage and need to be treated that way. I’m shocked Giuliani isn’t backing this and am glad Bloomberg is. But why are the families of the victims upset over this? That I don’t get. If it were a member of my family, I would want them in NYC where I could look them in the eye and wish them death.