Obama Administration's Positions in War on Terror Cases Anger Supporters

"On the Bagram detainees, legal scholar Jonathan Turley was similarly critical of Obama. 'Obama has said that no place should be out of the reach of the law,' Turley said. 'Now, he's done precisely that.'

"The criticism must come as a surprise to the Obama Administration, which up until now has been lauded by the left as the antidote to all the alleged ills of the Bush Administration. In reality, however, the arguments taken by the Administration in the war on terror cases have more to do with legal expediency then with agreement on the merits of the position. Still, the anti-war left was a big part of the coalition that Obama put together to win the White House. President Obama would doubtlessly much rather have them focusing their ire on Republicans than on his Administration's policies."

What if Bush made the "legal expediency" excuse? He would have been scaled, cleaned, fileted, and fried in oil.