Greenwald: Charles Krauthammer on the evils of associating with terrorists

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Charles Krauthammer on the evils of associating with terrorists

Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, today:

"Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, "I feel we didn't do enough."

"Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is."

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Rosa Brooks, The Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2007:

"LIKE PIRATES, terrorists are supposedly hostis humani generis — the "enemy of all mankind." So why is the Bush administration letting one of the world's most notorious terrorists stroll freely around the United States?

"I'm talking about a man who was -- until 9/11 -- perhaps the most successful terrorist in the Western Hemisphere. He's believed to have masterminded a 1976 plot to blow up a civilian airliner, killing all 73 people on board, including teenage members of Cuba's national fencing team. He's admitted to pulling off a series of 1997 bombings aimed at tourist hotels and nightspots. Today, he's living illegally in the United States, but senior members of the Bush administration -- the very guys who declared war on terror just a few short years ago -- don't seem terribly bothered.

"I'm talking about Luis Posada Carriles..."

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This is to say nothing of the fact that Krauthammer's assertion "that Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs" is a complete fabrication, as Ayers himself made clear days after having that quote attributed to him. It's to say nothing of the fact that unlike Obama -- whose "association" with Ayers could not be any less consequential and who never did anything to aid or assist him -- there is a long line of GOP operatives and Bush family members who repeatedly intervened to help multiple Terrorists for cheap political gain, including those who committed acts of violence against political opponents inside the U.S..

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/25/terrorists/index.html

[damntexdem]

1. Yes, no one should associate with terrorists like Krauthammer.

[mickeyraul]

2. Krauthammer is a radical conservative

Who is a warmonger who pushed the Iraq war and now salivates over the prospects of going to Iran.

[acmavm]

3. Wheelchair or no wheelchair, give Chuckie K. a gun and tell him to go

get 'em if he wants a war with Iran that badly.

[vinylsolution]

4. War Pig

Krauthammer has never been anywhere near the front line, but is paid handsomely to spread lies on behalf of AIPAC and PNAC.

Come the revolution HammerHead, you'd better watch your back....