Kristen Breitweiser: Our Meeting With President Obama

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristen-breitweiser/our-meeting-with-presiden_b_165229.html

Kristen Breitweiser

9/11 widow and activist
Posted February 9, 2009 | 11:48 AM (EST)
Our Meeting With President Obama


Last Friday, I and other 9/11 family members and victims' families from the USS Cole met with President Obama to discuss issues surrounding the status of GITMO.

As many of you know, I have been an outspoken critic of GITMO from the beginning. I believe that we must never abandon the fundamental principles upon which our nation was founded.

When ill-conceived decisions are coupled with secrecy, urgency, and questionable motives, democracy and justice cannot prevail. Indeed, with respect to the Bush administration's role in arresting, detaining, prosecuting and sentencing terrorists, we find nothing more than the
delaying and denying of what we need most - justice for victims by holding the perpetrators accountable.

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That kind of open, honest, and emotional debate took place Friday afternoon in the Old Executive Office Building during the meeting with the president. As one of the family members attending the meeting, I was very encouraged to know that we have an administration where cooler heads will prevail, where opinions and points of view are openly invited, voiced, and digested. What a breath of fresh air.

As a 9/11 widow and New Yorker, I believe we have waited too long for justice to be served when it comes to prosecuting terrorists. But I also know that we need to be deliberate and judicious in our approach, something entirely lacking in the previous administration.

We all need to give President Obama and Attorney General Holder a chance to remedy the mistakes of the Bush administration. Because those mistakes are complex and sweeping in scope, admittedly, it will take some time.

Friday's meeting with the president was a trusted step in the right direction.

[Beam Me Up]

1. I'll be very surprised if any of the terrorists responsible for 9/11 are ever

even identified, much less held accountable. A criminal cabal of mostly wealthy white men in key positions of authority, security and command? No, I don't see any of them ever being identified or prosecuted.

[leveymg]

2. Oh, they've been identified for a long time.

[mikita]

3. got that right n/t

[balantz]

4. They're just the criminals out front. The big wigs may never be seen. n/t

[BirminghamExaminer]

5. Amen

[chimpymustgo]

6. Truth.

[mackerel]

7. Classic!

[Beam Me Up]

13. Precisely my point. n/t

[yurbud]

11. like Prince Bandar, whose wife was funneling money to two of the hijackers?

Or the Saudi intel agent who picked up those two at LAX and set them up with an apartment in his building?

Yep, we'll never know who they are.

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/03/foia-doc-shows-911commission-lied-about.html

[glitch]

12. You mean the guy who is known by his bff as Bandar Bush?

Nah, you couldn't be talking about that guy.

[yurbud]

14. no, not the guy who threatened Britain with terrorist attacks if they didn't stop a corruption

investigation he was the subject of.

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/02/bandar-bushs-terror-threat-to-britain.html

[glitch]

17. That's one I didn't hear about, thanks for posting.

No wonder he's an honorary member of the Bush family.

[yurbud]

18. If Obama is smart, he'd have the CIA on Bandar's ass 24/7, and as soon as there's a terrorist attack

he should be grabbed first.

[Politicalboi]

19. What hijackers?

None were on the flight lists so I'm still wondering who these "hijackers" are. The same hijackers who went out supposedly the night before and drank and watched naked girls on stage. Both of which are against their religion. The same hijackers who really weren't so good at flying and instead of taking 2 flights out of New York and turn the plane around chose to fly out of Boston and keep NORAD away for 45 minutes. The offical story doesn't make sense.

[Berry Cool]

8. Wow, she sure has changed her tune regarding Obama.

She was a complete Hillary nut last year. I guess she figures she's better off with believing in a Dem than the alternative. But some of the pro-Hillary stuff she said last year was really sexist and offensive--i.e., perpetuated the concept of Hillary as the "cleaning woman" who was the only one capable of mopping up after Bush's mess.

[babylonsister]

9. My first thought, too.

She was definitely anti-Obama last year. I guess meeting him makes a difference.

[bagimin]

10. Her bullshit during the primaries

was heartbreaking to me. I was such an admirerer of hers...same for the Wilsons.

[springhill]

15. Poor baby.........

She liked another candidate, and so she is now tarnished. What horseshit!

[biopowertoday]

20. The primaries are over. Obama has set a good example to move on.

[leveymg]

21. Self-delete

[lala_rawraw]

16. excellent:)