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Bush wants Guantanamo trials
Herald Sun ^ | 30 June 2006

Posted on 06/29/2006 4:08:54 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

US President George W Bush said that a US Supreme Court ruling on the fate of Guantanamo Bay detainees would not set any suspected terrorists free and that he still hoped to try them in military courts.

"We will analyse the decision. To the extent that the Congress is given any latitude to develop a way forward using military tribunals, we will work with them," said Mr Bush.

"I want to find a way forward."

His remarks came during a joint appearance with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi following a US Supreme Court ruling that Bush overstepped his powers in setting up military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

The high court, in a 5-3 vote, said the administration violated the Geneva Conventions and the US military code of justice in ordering a military tribunal to prosecute Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni and former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Republican US Senator John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said immediately after the decision that the US Congress would try to build a legal framework to try the most dangerous Guantanamo suspects.

"He wants to devise law in conformity with the case that would enable us to use a military tribunal to hold these people to account. And if that's the case, we'll work with him," Mr Bush said.

"The American people need to know that this ruling, as I understand it, won't cause killers to be put out on the street," said the president, who cautioned that he had only received a speedy briefing on the decision.

"I have not had a chance to review the findings of the supreme court. I want to assure you we take them seriously," said Mr Bush.

"We will conform to the Supreme Court, we will analyse the decision."

But "I'm not going to jeopardise the safety of the American people. People got to understand that. I understand we're in a war on terror, that these people were picked up off of a battlefield, and I will protect the people and at the same time conform with the findings of the Supreme Court," said Mr Bush.

"I have told the people that I would like for there to be a way to return people from Guantanamo to their home countries. But some people need to be tried in our courts, and the Hamdan decision was the way forward," he said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: campxray; georgewbush; gitmobay; guantanamobay; terrorism; trials
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Put them all to trial and punishment!
1 posted on 06/29/2006 4:08:59 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher
Notice who is silent on this issue...little reaction.

Why have the Democrats suddenly lost their voice....they see this for what it is...a politcal trap.

Bush lost...but won in the long run.

2 posted on 06/29/2006 4:15:28 PM PDT by Dog (The founders gave freedom of the press to the people, they didn't give freedom to the press.)
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Put them all to trial and punishment!

Which ones? The terrorists or the 4 America hating Leftists and the guy who's dressin' up in Sandra Day O'Conners bloomers?

3 posted on 06/29/2006 4:16:51 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Aussie Dasher

I hope Bush's legal team takes their time in formulating a further course of action, and that the Congress also stretches this thing out. Let those thugs sweat it out in their Club Gitmo.


4 posted on 06/29/2006 4:17:13 PM PDT by Salvey (ancest)
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To: digger48

Who voted which way?


5 posted on 06/29/2006 4:18:18 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: digger48

Who voted which way?


6 posted on 06/29/2006 4:18:31 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Give them all to Fidel as pay back for the 1977 boat lift! They gave us Tony Montana, give him Adulla Mohammad!

7 posted on 06/29/2006 4:23:12 PM PDT by Bommer (Attention illegals: Why don't you do the jobs we can't do? Like fix your own countries problems!)
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Joining Stevens in the majority were justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony M. Kennedy and David H. Souter. Dissenting were justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.


8 posted on 06/29/2006 4:23:15 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Aussie Dasher

Just shoot them.


9 posted on 06/29/2006 4:24:15 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Aussie Dasher
US President George W Bush said that a US Supreme Court ruling on the fate of Guantanamo Bay detainees would not set any suspected terrorists free and that he still hoped to try them in military courts.

God bless this guy. He has the hardest job in the world, fighting both worldwide networks - Islamicists and the left - that want to dance on America's ashes. The Republicans in Congress who should be backing him up gladly sell him out whenever they smell a political advantage.

Thanks for keeping up the fight, Mr. President. I really don't know what keeps you going.

10 posted on 06/29/2006 4:44:12 PM PDT by Starve The Beast (I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused)
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To: digger48

Where was Roberts?


11 posted on 06/29/2006 4:44:16 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Dog

Good point, it's been a deafening silence from the Demagogues today...... they want to cheer loudly and bash Bush, but they (maybe) are struggling with what could be a huge trap with the electorate - let's hope a majority of the public can see that the SCOTUS has overstepped its authority (just what they accused Pres. Bush of doing) and that those fools such as the ACLU types who want to treat terrorist captives as protected by the Geneva Conventions and civilian legal norms are moonbats.


12 posted on 06/29/2006 4:46:19 PM PDT by Enchante (Keller & Sulzberger: Forget elections, WE are the self-appointed judges of everything)
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To: Aussie Dasher

recused himself since he ruled in favor of the Administration in the Lower Court


13 posted on 06/29/2006 4:46:23 PM PDT by digger48
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Personally, I am not in favor of trials. First, we don't need to try them in order to keep them in jail. The Geneva Convention allows us to keep them in jail until the hostilities cease, and that won't happen in their lifetime. Second, the liberal judges will just exonerate them anyway. All it does is give the judiciary an opportunity to screw up, which they can't resist doing.


14 posted on 06/29/2006 4:51:41 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: digger48

Don't yer just hate ethical judges???


15 posted on 06/29/2006 5:06:37 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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Oh for heaven's sake. Tie them up, put them on a cargo plane to their home country and at 30000 feet tilt the plane with the cargo door open.

If they accidentaly slide out simply declare it as lost cargo.


16 posted on 06/29/2006 5:07:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross in your yard, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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If I read it correctly, the SCOTUS said we can keep them locked up for the duration of the war.
Since JWB has said this war may last for generations they won't be getting out soon.


17 posted on 06/29/2006 5:09:39 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (When someone burns a cross in your yard, the best firehose is an AK-47.)
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I'm sorry, these terrorists should have been shot dead on the battlefield. To detain and pamper them and afford them Constitutional rights where they clearly don't have any just reeks.


18 posted on 06/29/2006 5:16:13 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (What you know about that?)
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To: digger48
" Put them all to trial and punishment!

Which ones? The terrorists or the 4 America hating Leftists and the guy who's dressin' up in Sandra Day O'Conners bloomers? "

Good point, it gets harder to identify the enemy with each passing day

those robes should be traded for straight jackets

I'm surprised they didn't rule that a terrorist has a right to choose what he wants do do with his body, somehow based on the constitution

19 posted on 06/29/2006 6:49:54 PM PDT by KTM rider ( Support Our Troops Donate to Irey)
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To: Dog
Actually the Dems were not as silent as you think. Pelosi called the court's ruling a "triumph".

Money quote:

“Today’s Supreme Court decision reaffirms the American ideal that all are entitled to the basic guarantees of our justice system. This is a triumph for the rule of law”

http://democraticleader.house.gov/press/releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=1659

Ultimately falling on the same side as Osama's body guard. I think this plays right in the President and Republicans hands. He will ask congress for these military trials. I would love to see the Dems try and weasel out of this one. If they refuse then they will be on the same side as Al-Qaeda if they go along with it the left wing kookery will go nuts.
20 posted on 06/29/2006 6:55:57 PM PDT by slowhand520
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