The Brits have a way with words.

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Barack Obama and the CIA: why does President Pantywaist hate America so

badly?

The Daily Telegraph, Gerald Warner

If al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest of the Looney Tunes brigade want to

kick America to death, they had better move in quickly and grab a piece of

the action before Barack Obama finishes the job himself. Never in the

history of the United States has a president worked so actively against the

interests of his own people - not even Jimmy Carter.

Obama's problem is that he does not know who the enemy is. To him, the enemy

does not squat in caves in Waziristan, clutching automatic weapons and

reciting the more militant verses from the Koran: instead, it sits around at

tea parties in Kentucky quoting from the US Constitution. Obama is not at

war with terrorists, but with his Republican fellow citizens. He has never

abandoned the campaign trail.

That is why he opened Pandora's Box by publishing the Justice Department's

legal opinions on waterboarding and other hardline interrogation techniques.

He cynically subordinated the national interest to his partisan desire to

embarrass the Republicans. Then he had to rush to Langley, Virginia to try

to reassure a demoralised CIA that had just discovered the President of the

United States was an even more formidable foe than al-Qaeda.

"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks," he told

intelligence officers. Is he kidding? Thanks to him, al-Qaeda knows the

private interrogation techniques available to the US intelligence agencies

and can train its operatives to withstand them - or would do so, if they had

not already been outlawed.

So, next time a senior al-Qaeda hood is captured, all the CIA can do is ask

him nicely if he would care to reveal when a major population centre is due

to be hit by a terror spectacular, or which American city is about to be

irradiated by a dirty bomb. Your view of this situation will be dictated by

one simple criterion: whether or not you watched the people jumping from the

twin towers.

Obama promised his CIA audience that nobody would be prosecuted for past

actions. That has already been contradicted by leftist groups with a

revanchist ambition to put Republicans, headed if possible by Condoleezza

Rice, in the dock. Talk about playing party politics with national security.

Martin Scheinin, the United Nations special investigator for human rights,

claims that senior figures, including former vice president Dick Cheney,

could face prosecution overseas. Ponder that - once you have got over the

difficulty of locating the United Nations and human rights within the same

dimension.

President Pantywaist Obama should have thought twice before sitting down to

play poker with Dick Cheney. The former vice president believes documents

have been selectively published and that releasing more will prove how

effective the interrogation techniques were. Under Dubya's administration,

there was no further atrocity on American soil after 9/11.

President Pantywaist's recent world tour, cosying up to all the bad guys,

excited the ambitions of America's enemies. Here, they realised, is a sucker

they can really take to the cleaners. His only enemies are fellow Americans.

Which prompts the question: why does President Pantywaist hate America so

badly?

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