By Ross Balano, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices Columnist 2008

President Obama has made his most outrageous move to date. Attorney General Eric Holder made the announcement this morning that some admitted terrorists including the self declared mastermind of the 9-11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be brought to New York City for trial.

Yes, you are reading this correctly. Our president is bringing terrorists, confessed terrorists, from Guantanamo Bay to New York where they will be tried near what used to be the shadow of the twin towers.

What a disgrace this man, Obama, is. What a slap to the face of the families of those killed on 9-11. What a slap to the face of our military that has fought and captured these terrorists. What a slap to the face of all Americans. These terrorists, after all, would like to kill us all.

These terrorists should be tried and convicted by military tribunals not in our courts where they will have a platform from which they can attempt to spread anti-American propaganda. This goes contrary to about 200 years of American policy. Never before have combatants captured during an ongoing war been tried in civil courts.

They will have lawyers that will use every means possible to get these terrorists acquitted on technicalities. All it will take is one liberal judge and KSM or one of the others could go free. Think about that. Can you imagine?

You folks that voted for Obama; is this the change you were looking for? Is this what you were hoping for? The country elected the most liberal, socialist president in the history of our great nation and now, to quote Obama mentor Jeremiah Wright, “chickens have come home to roost.” And they are bringing terrorists with them.