EDITORIAL: Terrorists use Democratic talking points - Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Terrorists use Democratic talking points - Washington Times: "The five terrorists facing federal trial in New York have some powerful arguments at their disposal. All they need to do is recycle Democratic talking points criticizing President George W. Bush's foreign policy.

Defense attorney Scott Fenstermaker, who is representing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's nephew Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the accused terrorists would make the case about 'their assessment of American foreign policy,' adding, 'Their assessment is negative.' The current administration shares the same assessment; President Obama's foreign policy has been a conscious and smug rejection of the policies of his predecessor.

Mr. Obama made great theater of ordering the closure of the U.S. terrorist detainee facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in his first days in office. The so-called 'American Gulag' had become a centerpiece of the Democratic critique of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terrorism. In this respect, the Democrats echoed what Osama bin Laden had been saying for years. In his November 2002 'Letter to America,' the al Qaeda leader stated that 'what happens in Guantanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites. ...'"