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MItt Romney: Town Hall 12/15/07

2008-08-28T16:47:09Z

Mitt Romney
Town Hall
Humboldt, IA 12/14/07

TRANSCRIPT:
MITT ROMNEY: It's been interesting over these past several months to watch the Democrats increasingly ratchet up their rhetoric attacking the President. And uhh, of course, as I've pointed out, the war in Iraq has not been perfectly managed. We did a great job knocking down Saddam Hussein and his military. But then after that we were under-prepared and under-planned, under-staffed; The President has pointed out those weaknesses. Tony Blair has.
There is no question we were not perfectly managed. Although today we are making great progress with the surge, and its working. And we're helping the Sunnis reject Al Qaeda amongst them. And that being said, by the way, I must admit I was shocked to pick up the paper and read . . . actually I didn't pick up the paper, I got on the internet. Sorry guys in the newspaper business, I don't get the paper like I used to, I got on the computer and I'm reading the news on the internet. But one of my fellow Republicans said that this administration, he accused this administration of an 'arrogant Bunker mentality.' And I had to look again, did this come from Barack Obama? Or from Hillary Clinton? Did it come from John Edwards? No, it was one of our own, it was Governor Huckabee. He said [the]'Bush administration is guilty of an arrogant bunker mentality that's been counterproductive here and abroad. I simply can't believe that. I can't believe he'd say that. I'm afraid he's running for the wrong party.
The truth of the matter is, this president has kept us safe these last six years. And that has not been easy to do. He went to Afghanistan and knocked down the Taliban there, and took out Al Qaeda's safe haven from which they could launch attacks against us. Instead of just listening to what happened around the world, in places like Iraq and taking one shot after another. You know, we got hit at the USS Cole, Cobar Towers was hit, our embassies in Africa were hit. One time after another we were hit with no response, other than negotiating. This president finally said we are doing something about it. And responded aggressively, as he should have.
And here at home he made sure we passed the PATRIOT Act, so we could find out what the bad guys were planning on doing to us. And he also made sure that when Al Qaeda was calling, someone was listening. And when we captured a terrorist, we interrogated them. And you know the story about Kahild Shiek Mohammed, he's the so-called mastermind of the 9/11 tragedy. When he was captured, he said 'I'll see you in New York with my lawyer.' Can you imagine? I'm sure he was thinking an ACLU lawyer would be provided at government expense. That's not what happened. Instead, he saw GIs and CIA interrogators in Guantanamo, just like it ought to be.
And so, I'm, yeah go ahead, that's fine [applause] thank you. And so I'm of the view to say thank you to the president for keeping us safe these last six years. And I'm the last person to say that this administration is subject to an 'arrogant bunker mentality' counterproductive here and abroad.' [applause]

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Bin Laden's Driver Acquitted for Conspiracy at Guantanamo

2008-09-06T05:19:43Z

Afshin Rattansi talks to Andy Worthington, spokesman for Reprieve about the impending life imprisonment of Samir Hamdan after years of torture at U.S. prison camp Guantanamo Bay in Occupied Cuba.

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Karadzic faces Hague tribunal

2008-08-26T18:47:06Z

Jul 22 - On the run for 11 years, former wartime president of the Bosnian Serbs Radovan Karadzic faces two indictments by the war crimes tribunal.Karadzic faces charges for the deaths of unarmed civilians during the siege of Sarajevo and for his role in the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995.Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

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Call for war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh - 17 Apr 08

2008-06-17T21:31:05Z

It's one of the world's ignored atrocities - buried in the not too distant past of Bangladesh.

Now, some people there are beginning to confront painful memories that have haunted them for years - the systematic killing of what they say was millions of their own.

They're calling for a war crimes tribunal. Tony Birtley has this report from the Bangadeshi capital Dhaka

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Cesare P. Romano: The International Judge

2008-06-12T21:30:44Z

Cesare P. Romano gives an overview of international courts and a profile of international judges as a group.

This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on March 19, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to carnegiecouncil.org

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Daniel Terris: The International Judge

2008-06-13T15:36:00Z

Daniel Terris uses the story of Judge Navi Pillay from South Africa to illustrate some of the key aspects about international judges and their work.

This is an excerpt from a Carnegie Council talk on March 19, 2008. For the full video, audio, and transcript, go to carnegiecouncil.org

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Global Pulse 2/13/08 - Tortured Words

2008-06-13T03:30:58Z

(February 13, 2008) Interrogation or torture, trial or travesty - news media around the world used their own perspectives to judge the upcoming trial of key 9/11 suspects by military tribunal. What you call it matters, shaping public opinion in the U.S. and worldwide. Especially revealing are the differences in images and words between U.S. and international broadcasters - of 9/11, and of waterboarding.

SOURCES: BBC, U.K.; TVE, Spain; NBC News and Fox News, U.S.; Press TV, Iran; Al Jazeera English, Qatar.

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Torture, tribunals and the death penalty

2008-06-17T15:36:33Z

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Michael Ratner: What is at stake is the future of justice in the US

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Knuckles

2008-10-10T18:38:19Z

Knuckles goes to Washington! Who's against the military Commissions Act???? not Knuckles! another flashtoon from Mother Jones and creator www.MarkFiore.com

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Inside Story - International Tribunal - 30 May 07 - Part 2

2008-06-06T21:30:38Z

The UN Security Council is to vote on an International Tribunal to try those involved in the killing of Rafiq al-Hariri.

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Inside Story - International Tribunal - 30 May 07 - Part 1

2008-06-06T21:30:40Z

The UN Security Council is to vote on an International Tribunal to try those involved in the killing of Rafiq al-Hariri.

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Frost Over The World - Assasinations in Lebanon - 15 Jun 07

2008-06-07T03:30:53Z

Criminologist Omar Nashabe and journalist Baria Alamuddin join Frost Over The World to discuss the Rafiq al-Hariri tribunal and whether it will offer closure for the Lebanese, and possibly vindication for Syria, or whether a decision taken by an outside force could lead to more problems for Lebanon.

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