Posted on 09/06/2006 11:41:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
WASHINGTON — President Bush, warning Americans that "terrorists are still active... and still trying to kill our people," announced Wednesday the transfer of 14 key terrorist suspects from secret CIA custody to the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
He also announced that he was asking Congress to pass legislation that would allow the United States to try the terror suspects for war crimes.
"The families of the 9/11 attacks have waited patiently for justice," Bush said in making the announcement.
Issuing a warning to terrorists around the world, the president added, "We will find you, and we will bring you to justice."
The president's comments came during a White House speech on the War on Terror, his third such speech, and before an audience of 9/11 families and first responders.
Bush acknowledged for the first time the existence of secret prisons to hold terrorist suspects, and outlined how the CIA and the government's intelligence and law enforcement agencies were fighting a secret war against Al Qaeda to "stop attacks before they occur."
He detailed how the administration plans to legally try the more than 400 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.The suspects will be transferred to Defense Department custody as a first step in preparing them for trial, a senior administration official. The suspects would be afforded some legal protections consistent with the Geneva conventions, he said
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"Issuing a warning to terrorists around the world, the president added, "We will find you, and we will bring you to justice."
"Justice - crap" This is the wrong warning... it should go like this:
"We will find you and hang you and burry you with pig skin"
The dems are so screwed. ROVE, YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTERD.
They have already started the propaganda:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060905/cm_thenation/20060918brecher
that's going nowhere - the details are far too complicated for the typical american to understand.
Our attention span is fine. After reading this article....WOAH! BLUE CAR OUTSIDE!!!!
/just kidding....I agree with your post 100%
Just doesn't have that simple "Bush lied, people died" / "Bush led, Democrats fled" ring to it, does it?
Great speech. The facts presented in the early part need to be repeated. USS Cole, African Embassies bombers, caught by Bush, not Clinton.
I READ YOUR BOOK!
Crikey, that was fast. The first victim steps into the ambush before Bush even starts his speech.
Starting off the campaign season against the Dems with wiretapping & with Gitmo / terrorist detainees is a brilliant move. Like Bugs asking Daffy "should he shoot you now, or wait till you get home?"
Republicans should make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the Willie Horton of the midterm elections.
Sounds like we're safer contrary to what the Rats claim.
Thank you. We can always count on you to provide the DNC Proapganda response.
Squeal all you want your conduct betrays your true allegiances.
True, but that hasn't stopped them in the past. Kinda like Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football.
Cut and Run Democrats seems to be echoing quite well. But THAT right, it NOT about the facts, it about what the Always Crying Freeper Fringers can pout about next.
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