Join Us: Tell Democrats to Fight Back

February 18, 2010  |  Posted by Danielle Belton

"He either is misinformed or he is misinforming. But the facts are that his assertions are not accurate."

-- Vice President Joe Biden on former Vice President Dick Cheney and his attacks on the Obama Administration for wanting to try terrorism suspects in criminal courts.

Tell President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid to fight back against right wing attacks on our justice system.

On Sunday, Feb. 14, Vice President Joe Biden went on NBC's Meet the Press and slapped down criticisms from former Vice President Dick Cheney about President Obama's efforts to try terrorism suspects. Here's some of what Biden had to say:

Dick Cheney's a fine fellow. He's entitled to his own opinions. He's not entitled to rewrite history. He's not entitled to his own facts. The Christmas Day bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested that the shoe bomber was treated, absolutely the same way. Under the Bush administration, there were three trials in military courts. Two of those people are now walking the streets; they are free. There were 300 trials of so-called terrorists and those who had engaged in terror against the United States of America who are in federal prison and have not seen the light of day, prosecuted under the last administration. Dick Cheney's a fine fellow, but he is not entitled to rewrite history without it being challenged. I don't know where he has been. Where was he the last four years of the last administration?

This is the exact response we want to see more of from Democrats to counter the right wing Republican attacks on holding criminal trials for terrorism suspects.

President Obama and our justice system are under a blistering attack from Republican Congressional leaders and right wingers who want to stop the U.S. criminal trail of 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees. Some Congressional Democrats have already caved on the issue and now the White House and Congressional leaders are pausing to re-assess their position.

The right wing is counting on two things to succeed: 1) that Americans will be freightened into abandoning our system of justice, and 2) that President Obama and Democrats in Congress will back down.

Join us and tell President Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Harry Reid to keep up the fight. 

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