I missed this from Powerline over the weekend. In it, Scott, John and Paul explain why Obama's statements in Europe were so reprehensible. Here is a snippet from the post:
JOHN adds: Obama's constant criticism of his predecessor is doubly reprehensible because it is false. Thus, in his Strasbourg speech Obama said:
I don't believe that there is a contradiction between our security and our values. And when you start sacrificing your values, when you lose yourself, then over the long term that will make you less secure. When we saw what happened in Abu Ghraib, that wasn't good for our security -- that was a recruitment tool for terrorism. Humiliating people is never a good strategy to battle terrorism.
Obama thus repeats the slander that the pointless abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib by a handful of low-life Army Reservists was part of President Bush's "strategy to battle terrorism." This is an absurdity. The Reservists in question violated every known policy, which is why they went to jail when their crimes were discovered. For Obama to defame his own country in this way is contemptible.
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