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Dear

President Obama wants to prosecute the Bush administration... or at least leave the door open to prosecuting Bush White House attorneys.

This is what we have come to: an elected President of the United States hinting that he will criminally prosecute the previous occupants of the White House for working to protect the United States from terrorists.

You would think we were in a third-world country.

However, this is the United States of America and we now have a President who believes he can spread his ideas of weakness and appeasement toward America's enemies back into a political prosecution of a previous administration to further increase his standing among liberals in the United States and in the world.

President Obama wants to prosecute the Bush administration for prosecuting the fight against terrorism.

We need to stand up and say it is wrong.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

Obama bowed in front of a Saudi King. Obama stood on French soil and called United States actions arrogant. He has smiled while shaking hands with Hugo Chavez.

Now Obama wants to send another message to liberals around the world by opening up to the political prosecution of Bush administration officials.

The prosecution would be based on his administration re-defining the terms of terrorist interrogations. He wants to re-define the questioning of terrorists who come from a tradition of blowing up buildings, suicide bombings and unbridled attacks on civilians.

Obama wants to re-define the interrogations of terrorists whose goal is to eliminate our society and replace it with one like the Taliban where "honor killings" are conducted against women who do not ascribe to pre-arranged marriages, where public expression is banned, television is outlawed and we told what clothing to wear.

The Obama administration would re-define the interrogations that took place of terrorists who wanted us to die just because of our basic traditions and beliefs so they can politically prosecute their predecessors.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

When did Obama decide to open up to prosecutions of the Bush - Cheney administration?

As ABC News reported, "President Barack Obama has opened the possibility of prosecuting Bush-era lawyers who authorized torturing terror suspects and suggested Congress might order a full investigation. Less than a week after declaring it was time to move on, the President is now describing what might be done next to investigate."

But did Obama plan to prosecute Bush officials all along?

During the campaign Newsweek noted in an article last November that Obama advisor Eric Holder who is now our Attorney General called the Bush policies "unlawful."

Holder said in testimony just this week that he will provide more "transparency" in releasing more previously held military top secret documents on interrogations... building a liberal public cause toward prosecution.

So when the President's Press Secretary and his Chief of Staff told the press that the President was looking forward and not looking back - that he wasn't looking to prosecute - one has to wonder if it was a ploy to get members of the liberal media and the far left to call on him to prosecute - to raise their voices to call for the prosecutions.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

Obama said as early as October 2007, during the campaign that, "We won't work in secret to avoid honoring our laws and Constitution." ... hinting at his political prosecutions to come.

It was then-Senator Barack Obama who was one of the first to start the effort toward defining violent terrorist's interrogations as so-called torture.

In that same October 2007 campaign statement Obama alternated between the terms, "interrogation techniques," "brutal interrogations," and then "torture." He said, "No more ... methods like simulated drowning."

Simulated actions - i.e. fake actions - became torture to the media and the far left under the tutelage of Barack Obama.

Fake activities that Vice President Cheney said gave us valuable intelligence to protect American lives.

These fake tactics were allegedly used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that produced the killings of thousands of United States citizens. The killings were real.

We have seen the real torture of American citizens - beatings and even beheading. In 1993 Americans saw images of U.S. Soldiers bodies being dragged through the streets of Somalia after a fight with militants. A British government document, PBS reported, said that Al Qaeda trained militants there. Osama Bin Laden later praised the fighters.

The Obama administration is seeking to find a legal justification to prosecute Bush administration officials by making the case that fake drowning is equal to real torture.

If they succeed they might even seek to prosecute Vice President Cheney himself, a political prosecution like those seen in third-world countries.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

Obama's supposed push toward prosecutions is coming from liberals like Senator Diane Feinstein.

You may have seen Senator Feinstein on TV this week calling for the possibility of prosecutions. This is the same Diane Feinstein who served as a leader in bringing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton together after the Democrat primary last year.

This is the same Senator Feinstein who found herself at the center of an ethics controversy this week when it was disclosed her husband's real estate firm received a lucrative federal government contract to sell foreclosed properties - after she asked for $25 billion in federal money for the agency that gave him the contract.

So while Feinstein was deflecting questions on her ethical problems, she was promoting the torture debate.

Feinstein led the call to urge Obama to "reserve judgment" about prosecutions.

She was joined by other liberals including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who is trying to deflect criticism from the left that she knew about and approved the techniques before she started calling them torture. In fact she was even given a personal tour of the interrogation facilities when she was briefed before the questioning took place.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

This is a dangerous precedent for the President of the United States.

Even in the days following Watergate, where an illegal break-in became the impetus for bringing down a Presidency, then President Ford took the politically painful step of pardoning the former President. This new President seems to be tearing out that page from history and trashing it to look for a justification to prosecute the previous staff and potentially the Vice President or President themselves.

These actions might leave the door open to prosecutions against those who were working to keep our nation safe from brutal terrorists.

We need to stand up against Mr. Obama's actions. They are not only dangerous in the political precedent but dangerous in sending the message to our enemies that we are weakening in our efforts to protect our homeland.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

Just today we awoke to stories that another suicide bomber killed scores of people in Iraq. These terrorists know no bounds. They are brutal and vicious in killing innocent people.

The men and women who went to work at the World Trade Center on September 1, 2001 and the men and women who put on their fire, police or EMS uniforms were not suiting up for war; they were going to work to feed their families.

The terrorists are brutal. They know no bounds and they will do whatever it takes to promote their warped ideology and end our freedoms and way of life.

Let's not send a message that our nation is weak or that our leaders will criminally prosecute their predecessors for political disagreements. That is not democracy... and it is allowing the terrorists to win in destroying our democracy and therefore our way of life.

Sign the new ACU petition against Obama's political prosecutions here.

Thank you for all you do for ACU and for America.

Sincerely,
DEW
Dennis Whitfield
Executive Vice President

P.S. We should not allow only the voices of the left to be heard in the White House or in the media. We must speak up and fight back. Thank you for signing the petition and supporting ACU's efforts here.







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