Barack Obama actually said...

That's their responsibility.

Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Vice President's Trip to Iraq

07/02/2010

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We have to consider whether this is the smartest way for us to both control crime and rehabilitate individuals.

I don't think you've heard the last of it.

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When people are oppressed and human rights are denied . . . when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism.