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In reply to the discussion: Obama should never have signed the NDAA into law, signing statements or not. [View all]boxman15
(1,033 posts)What good would come of that? The only thing a veto would do is piss off voters for not paying the troops and make a GOP White House able to abuse this provision and a conservative court to uphold it more likely.
Obama signing it and expressing his "reservations" in the statement gives the courts at least a year to strike it down an for the American people to pressure Congress to make sure nothing like this is in the 2013 NDAA.
Obama signing it and issuing that signing statement gives us the best possible opportunity to make sure nothing like this is there for a future administration to abuse.
A veto would have made a new and potentially scary administration very likely and would make indefinite detention for Americans much more likely.