Friday, January 23, 2009

Obama tears down Bush foreign policy

BARACK Obama has begun tearing down eight years of Bush administration foreign and national security policy, flexing his new power in a bid to boldly remake the US image abroad.

“Once again, America's moral example must be the bedrock and the beacon of our global leadership,” the new US President declared on his second, frenetic, full day in the White House.

Mr Obama ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and outlawed torture and secret CIA prisons abroad in a far-reaching overhaul of the way the US treats al-Qa'ida detainees and other terror suspects.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24951773-601,00.html

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