It took 100 days for our war president to go back to a working Bush-era plan and follow his General’s recommendation: a surge similar to the one in Iraq to pacify Afghanistan and empower the local authorities.

100 days…we won the first Gulf War in 100 hours and Napoleon came back from exile and terrified the enemies of France for 100 days before his final defeat at Waterlo. Three months for something he was quite articulate and adamant before becoming the commander on chief. Judgement…decision…is he out of his league?

Way to go! Media around the world called it the “guessing game” and Obama is again embracing a Bush era policy completely foreign to whatever he has promised on the campaign trail. To you, this is a good example to what happens when a do good-feel good liberal meets reality.

Gitmo stays open while military tribunal are still the norm. Wiretapping is still going on and extreme rendition has also been adopted by the new administration. After all, even our current attorney general is quoted telling Congress that “we are within our rights and within the law to detain that –these- person” and that indefinite detention was “consistent with due process”.

And to top it up, on Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s civil trial, the former lawyer Obama has declared on national television that the american people would come to term with providing the mastermind of 9-11 with “all the legal privilefges of an american citizen” when the latter is convicted “and the death penalty applied to him!” So much for due process…I guess he missed the class about innocent before proven guilty at Cloumbia and Harvard…lol

What on earth has happened to the Hallmark speeches and the fuzzy wuzzy candidate that has put love before respect, demagoguery before truth?

Eric Chevreuil