Posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by campaign2008
“I commend the military officers who presided over this trial and served on the hearing panel under difficult and unprecedented circumstances. They and all our Armed Forces continue to serve this country with valor in th
e fight against terrorism. That the Hamdan trial – the first military commission trial with a guilty verdict since 9/11 – took several years of legal challenges to secure a conviction for material support for terrorism underscores the dangerous flaws in the Administration’s legal framework. It’s time to better protect the American people and our values by bringing swift and sure justice to terrorists through our courts and our Uniform Code of Military Justice. And while it is important to convict anyone who provides material support for terrorism, it is long past time to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and the terrorists who murdered nearly 3000 Americans.”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in a statement on Wednesday in response to the verdict in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
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Posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 by campaign2008
“I welcome today’s guilty verdict in the first trial held under the Military Commissions Act (MCA). This proces
s of bringing terrorists to justice has been too long delayed, but I’m encouraged that it is finally moving forward. I supported that legislation, which was a good-faith effort by Congress to meet the Supreme Court’s direction to establish a process to bring terrorist detainees to trial. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a trusted confidante of Osama Bin Laden, was provided a full hearing of the charges against him and was represented by counsel who vigorously defended him. The jury found that the prosecution lawyers had proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Hamdan had aided terrorists by supplying weapons to Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.”
–Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in a statement Wednesday on the verdict (AFP) in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan.
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Posted on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 by campaign2008
“[N]uclear power alone is not enough. Drilling alone is not enough. We need to do all this and more. That is why I am calling for an ‘all of the above’ approach. I am also calling on Congress to come back into session to deal with this pressing energy challenge.”
–Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in remarks Tuesday at a Michigan nuclear power plant.
“I will call on businesses, government, and the American people to meet the goal of reducing our demand for electricity 15 percent by the end of the next decade. This is by far the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to reduce our energy consumption – and it will save us $130 billion on our energy bills.”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in a speech Tuesday in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 by campaign2008
“[D]id nuclear arms help the Soviet Union from falling and disintegrating? For that
matter, did a nuclear bomb help the U.S. to prevail inside Iraq or Afghanistan, for that matter? Nuclear bombs belong to the 20th century. We are living in a new century.”
–Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams that aired Monday.
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Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 by campaign2008
“As we draw down in Iraq, we can beef up our presence on other battlefields (such as
Afghanistan) without fear of leaving a failed state behind. I’ve said that I expect to welcome home most of our troops from Iraq by the end of my first term in office, in 2013. But I’ve also said that any draw-downs must be based on a realistic assessment of conditions on the ground - not on an artificial timetable crafted for domestic political reasons.”
–Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in an op-ed published Tuesday in the New York Post.
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Posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 by campaign2008
“I urge the Congress to act immediately and to allow and encourage offshore drilling for oil and gas. If we are able to identify large supplies of oil and gas off our coasts, that will have an impact on oil prices, futures prices.”
–Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), at a press conference Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri.
“I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy power, wind power and advanced biofuels, and those are the investments I will make as independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar President”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in a statement Thursday on former Vice President Al Gore’s new energy initiative (ABC).
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Posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by campaign2008
“I’ll make cyber security the top priority that it should be in the 21st century. I’ll declare our cyber-infrastructure a strategic asset, and appoint a National Cyber Advisor who will report directly to me. We’ll coordinate efforts across the federal government, implement a truly national cyber-security policy, and tighten standards to secure information – from the networks that power the federal government, to the networks that you use in your personal lives.”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in remarks Wednesday at a summit on “Confronting New Threats.”
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Posted on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 by campaign2008
“As President, I will pursue a tough, smart and principled national security strategy – one that recognizes that we have interests not just in Baghdad, but in Kandahar and Karachi, in Tokyo and London, in Beijing and Berlin. I will focus this strategy on five goals essential to making America safer: ending the war in Iraq responsibly; finishing the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban; securing all nuclear weapons and materials from terrorists and rogue states; achieving true energy security; and rebuilding our alliances to meet the challenges of the 21st century.”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in a speech Tuesday on the war in Iraq and national security policy.
“It is precisely the success of the surge in Iraq that shows us the way to succeed in Afghanistan. It is by applying the tried and true principles of counter-insurgency used in the surge – which Senator Obama opposed — that we will win in Afghanistan. With the right strategy and the right forces, we can succeed in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I know how to win wars. And if I’m elected President, I will turn around the war in Afghanistan, just as we have turned around the war in Iraq, with a comprehensive strategy for victory.”
–Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in remarks Tuesday in New Mexico.
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Posted on Monday, July 14th, 2008 by campaign2008
“As president, I would pursue a new strategy, and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan. We need more troops, more helicopters, better intelligence-gathering and more nonmilitary assistance to accomplish the mission there. I would not hold our military, our resources and our foreign policy hostage to a misguided desire to maintain permanent bases in Iraq.”
–Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), in an op-ed Monday in the New York Times.
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Posted on Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 by campaign2008
“I announce my readiness to meet with all the presidential candidates of the United States and have a live debate with them.”
–Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at a press conference (PRESS TV) at the D8 summit of developing nations Tuesday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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