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The new reference is appreciated, but this is still not a myth.  First off, Bush is taking Obama's comments out of context and twisting it to sound like civil prosecution after an attack is an adequate way to address terrorism.  That's not Obama's position, as this more comprehensive reference [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/national/main4366366.shtml shows].  What Obama was talking about is that instead of locking up enemy combatants for years outside of civil law and without due process, waiting for military tribunals while bogus confessions are extracted under harsh interrogation, we could have prosecuted them fairly and quickly, and have them serving justly-deserved sentences in jail today.  Obama has long called for stepping up our activity against the terrorists who actually attacked us at their power bases in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border, instead of diverting resources on the fiasco in Iraq.  That is hardly "relying on law enforcement", and Bush doesn't mention it because a Pentagon-funded study by the Rand Group published in July concluded that the Bush strategy for fighting the war on terror has, like so many of his other policies, [http://chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-07/31/content_6893272.htm been unsuccessful]. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 14:28, 20 August 2008 (EDT)

The new reference is appreciated, but this is still not a myth.  First off, Bush is taking Obama's comments out of context and twisting it to sound like civil prosecution after an attack is an adequate way to address terrorism.  That's not Obama's position, as this more comprehensive reference [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/20/national/main4366366.shtml shows].  What Obama was talking about is that instead of locking up enemy combatants for years outside of civil law and without due process, waiting for military tribunals while bogus confessions are extracted under harsh interrogation, we could have prosecuted them fairly and quickly, and have them serving justly-deserved sentences in jail today.  Obama has long called for stepping up our activity against the terrorists who actually attacked us at their power bases in Afghanistan and the Pakistani border, instead of diverting resources on the fiasco in Iraq.  That is hardly "relying on law enforcement", and Bush doesn't mention it because a Pentagon-funded study by the Rand Group published in July concluded that the Bush strategy for fighting the war on terror has, like so many of his other policies, [http://chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-07/31/content_6893272.htm been unsuccessful]. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 14:28, 20 August 2008 (EDT)