Scots Officials Claim Obama Administration Asked Them To Free Lockerbie Bomber

[jordan179]

According to Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent of the Guardian, in an article published just today (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/barack-obama-megrahi-release-lockerbie)

the US grudgingly supported freeing the Lockerbie

Comments

[polaris93]

Perhaps there will be justice, and Lockerbie will be paid for when Tripoli is a sea of flames from end to end, and the screams of dying Libyans herald to the world an America or Britain no longer willing to overlook such insults.

Unfortunately, as long as Obama is Clown-in-Chief, America won't pull that off. Dammit. As for Great Britain, I don't know. But I'm not sanguine about the UK suddenly sprouting hair on its chest and doing what ought to be done in such a case. Dammit.

[the_hat]

[jordan179]

Do you notice that several of the "progressive" states of the Cold War era have generated dynasties? The Kims in North Korea, the Assads in Syria, and now the Kadaffis in Libya. The same thing would have happened with the Hussein al-Tikritis in Iraq, if not for the American invasion.

May all those dynasties meet the fate of Saddam and his two sons.

[the_hat]

[starblade_enkai]

Not that I support freeing a mass murderer, but why are we sending our prisoners overseas when we should deal with them under a jurisdiction which respects the non-infallibility of human government? Isn't that just plain being irresponsible?

Not a dad yet, are you?

[zornhau]

Descending on enemy cities with fire and steel seems so much less attractive when you've held your own fragile newborn in your arms.

That said, I approve of your general more robust approach.

(Any chance you could contextualise the leaks (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/jul/26/afghanistan-war-logs-wikileaks) for us, by the way?)

Re: Not a dad yet, are you?

[ford_prefect42]

Well, I have heard a lot of parents support smacking down *hard* on things they perceive as threats to their kids. Islamo-fascism is certainly that.

Re: Not a dad yet, are you?

[zornhau]

Yes, I feel that way. I don't, for example, have a problem with the sort of black ops that make many liberals squeal.

[the_hat]

[affablestranger]

"If America had wanted him to stay, he would have stayed."

I could buy that maybe 15 or so years ago. I can't buy that these days. Our stock isn't really as high as it used to be, and it's not like a lot of people aren't out to show how they're "ahead" of us.

And yes, Lockerbie isn't even a distant memory to most Americans.

[unixronin]

Look on the bright side: He didn't actually outright apologize.