Hussein Warns Against Making Bin Laden A Martyr
Barack Obama said today that he would try to avoid turning Osama bin Laden into a martyr who could provide a rallying point for a new generation of Islamist radicals.
Obama said is not certain that the terrorist leader would be captured alive. But if bin Laden were taken into custody, Obama said he would bring the terrorist to justice “in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr.”
The presumptive Democratic nominee added the the capture of bin Laden would offer a high-profile moment to demonstrate to the world “that the United States government is abiding by the basic conventions that would strengthen our hand in the broader battle against terrorism.”
Obama drew a comparison with the prosecution of Nazi war criminals at the Nuremburg trials, which he called “one of the high water marks” of U.S. foreign policy.
“The world had not seen before victors behave in ways that advanced a set of universal principles. And that set a tone for post-war reconstruction and creation of an international order that I think was extraordinarily important,” he continued.
Obama was asked about how he would handle bin Laden by a press pool after the senator met with a new team of national security advisers at a hotel in Washington D.C.
The meeting came as the McCain campaign has criticized Obama for a “Sept. 10″ mindset for promoting criminal trials of terrorist suspects.
Obama also told reporters that he had not spoken in recent days with former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
“She has been getting a well-deserved vacation and we will be speaking I think in the next few days or certainly the next week and will be having an ongoing conversation,” Obama said.
Clinton and Obama are to meet jointly with top Clinton fundraisers next Thursday.
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June 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pmyep, them radical muslims are sure going to appreciate our application of the rule of law.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pm“in a way that allows the entire world to understand the murderous acts that he’s engaged in and not to make him into a martyr.”
WTF? what does that even mean?
obama is so concerned about how everything “looks” and “appears” that he’s missed the point entirely. WITH EVERYTHING
June 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmYou should have photoshopped a great big cross around Bin Laden’s neck
June 18th, 2008 at 3:19 pmYou just can’t fix stupid.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pmHe has learned that George Bush is going to unleash the hounds of hell to get OBL. Hussein is afraid that killing that SOB could validate the entire approach since 9/11, so he needs to get his lackeys in the MSM to agree that he is better alive than dead.
Once again, almost no one in America agrees with this position, and it could further render him unelectable. He has an indefensible position, and he just looks ridiculous trying to stay on the anti-war bandwagon. Being against a war that we win is not the path to the White House.
June 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pmMke him a martyr.
Then show the rest of the video of him being fed to pigs
Fair & Balanced
June 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm“Hussein Warns Against Making Bin Laden A Martyr”
Got an idea
let’s make him the “Official Poster Child” for why it’s not a good idea to piss-off The United States of America…at least with a Republican in the White House. 
Can I get an “Amen Brother”?
June 18th, 2008 at 3:59 pmMike -
June 18th, 2008 at 4:53 pmYou got it right here, Bro.
so….when is Bush going to unless the “hounds of Hell” to get Osama?
June 18th, 2008 at 5:57 pmUmmm….. Mr. Urkel sir…. didn’t we have to actually fight and win WWII before its ‘criminals’ were ‘brought to justice’?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pmHow does your cut and run policy and your granting habeus rights to prisoners facilitate winning THIS war and any bringing this “terrorist to justice”?
Judging by the freefalling numbers of AQ terrorists, OBL would be a martyr to nothing.
And how better to not make OBL a martyr than by treating him as just a misunderstood guy!
FUCK OBAMA
June 18th, 2008 at 6:29 pmOblama is diametrically wrong on this. The ‘martyr’ arguement is a straw man. Was Saddam a ‘martyr’ of significance? No. Uday?, Qusay? What about Al Zarqawi? Nope, nope and nope. These douchbags become insignificant once dead. The answer is, of course, to martyr them all, every last mother-f–king one of ‘em. But Oblama wants to extend Constitutional rights to them instead. Fucking Idiot.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pmWow, I guess planes crashing into the Trade Towers and Pentagon and being covered by every world news station didn’t “allow the entire world to understand”.
No Obamessiah, the only ones who don’t seem to understand this (or pretend you don’t understand) are you Dhemmis. They understand death, give it to them
June 18th, 2008 at 8:22 pm