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Senate panel defies Bush on terror
Associated Press ^ | ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY

Posted on 09/14/2006 12:57:54 PM PDT by 300magnum

WASHINGTON - A rebellious Senate committee defied President Bush on Thursday and approved terror-detainee legislation he has vowed to block, deepening Republican conflict over a key issue in the middle of congressional campaigns.

Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, pushed the measure through his panel by a 15-9 vote, with Warner and two other GOP lawmakers joining Democrats. The tally set the stage for a showdown on the Senate floor as early as next week.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egobeforecountry; goobergraham; mccain; mclaim; osamahasrights; waronterror; weasel; wot
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To: 300magnum
Only from
21 posted on 09/14/2006 1:07:59 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: onyx
One would think so

This IDIOT is going to get us killed

22 posted on 09/14/2006 1:08:22 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I don't know what to say Eric..except I vow not to watch any news or talking heads for at least a few days. I'll get my news from FR and my local news on the net.


23 posted on 09/14/2006 1:08:26 PM PDT by hipaatwo (Vote for your life. Every vote for a Democrat is a vote against victory.)
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To: markman46

Closer to the president's version.


24 posted on 09/14/2006 1:08:31 PM PDT by clintonh8r (American first, conservative second.....Republican a distant third.)
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To: debg

Yes, yes, everyone's wrong except the Marxist democrats and this cabal of four.


25 posted on 09/14/2006 1:08:38 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: debg

Graham is an idiot.


26 posted on 09/14/2006 1:08:44 PM PDT by Dog (just doing the job that Mexico couldn't/wouldn't do.)
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To: 300magnum

They also defy logic and reason.


27 posted on 09/14/2006 1:09:10 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: 300magnum
Just after his release in May 1973, he detailed his experience as a P.O.W. in a lengthy account in U.S. News & World Report.


He described the day Hanoi Hilton guards beat him "from pillar to post, kicking and laughing and scratching. After a few hours of that, ropes were put on me and I sat that night bound with ropes."
"For the next four days, I was beaten every two to three hours by different guards . . . Finally, I reached the lowest point of my 5 1/2 years in North Vietnam. I was at the point of suicide, because I saw that I was reaching the end of my rope."

McCain was taken to an interrogation room and ordered to sign a document confessing to war crimes. "I signed it," he recalled. "It was in their language, and spoke about black crimes, and other generalities."

"I had learned what we all learned over there," McCain said. "Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."


Funny, John Mccain believes torture is okay for our troops, but not for islamofascists. Even though it broke him, even though they torture our troops and civilians. He is no longer a war hero, he's merely a turncoat aiding and abetting our enemy by tying our country's hands in the war on terror.
28 posted on 09/14/2006 1:09:25 PM PDT by pipecorp ( Al Lahsuchs................8(_o_)8 .................p b & j mercy is wasted on the merciless.)
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To: debg

Graham is McCain's poodle....


29 posted on 09/14/2006 1:09:59 PM PDT by clintonh8r (American first, conservative second.....Republican a distant third.)
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To: Mo1

Susan is stupid, but the other three KNOW better. They are playing fast and loose with American lives in this attempt of theirs to appear high minded and principled.


30 posted on 09/14/2006 1:11:24 PM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- IF only 10% are radical, that's still 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: Mo1

Only but a handful are taking this war seriously. The rest either fail to see what the problem is or do not believe our way of life is under attack and has been for quite some time.

Like I said in another thread, I am quickly coming to the realization we will not win. I guess I am going to have to learn to live with that.


31 posted on 09/14/2006 1:12:03 PM PDT by abercrombie_guy_38
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To: onyx


CAPTION HILLARY & 2 RINO's
AP Via Yahoo News ^ | 09-14-06 | AP Via Yahoo News

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701541/posts


32 posted on 09/14/2006 1:12:29 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: 300magnum

I'm waiting for all the McCainiacs on this forum to post on this thread how we should vote for him for president.


33 posted on 09/14/2006 1:13:00 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace begins in the womb.)
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To: Dog
Dear Senator Graham,

Have your way...BUT IF ANYTHING GOES BOOM and Americans are killed and it turns out it could have been stopped BUT your little tantrum prevented our people from getting the info to stop it.

Senator the American blood is on your grandstanding hands.

Signed,

A Very PISSED OFF AMERICAN

34 posted on 09/14/2006 1:13:16 PM PDT by Dog (just doing the job that Mexico couldn't/wouldn't do.)
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To: Dog

Graham is a McCain lackey.


35 posted on 09/14/2006 1:13:56 PM PDT by debg
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To: new yorker 77

I wouldn't call the Unamerican.

I'd just say that they support a Bill of Rights for Al Queda.


36 posted on 09/14/2006 1:14:01 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (who needs terrorists?)
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To: clintonh8r

I agree, the blowhards in the senate (Mcwengam)think they have the last word... NOT


37 posted on 09/14/2006 1:14:20 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: onyx
They are playing fast and loose with American lives in this attempt of theirs to appear high minded and principled

They are not taking this WOT seriously .. they are helping the Terrorists which in turn will get us killed

I am so angry about this I can't stop shaking

38 posted on 09/14/2006 1:14:31 PM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Dog

Did you send that to him? It's PERFECT.


39 posted on 09/14/2006 1:14:42 PM PDT by hipaatwo (Vote for your life. Every vote for a Democrat is a vote against victory.)
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To: onyx

Goober has this thing about JAG Officers being kept out of the decision making process. Says they are the conscience of the military. Everyone else in the legal military arena are idiots.


40 posted on 09/14/2006 1:14:46 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( I am sitting under my cone of silence, inside a copper wire cage wearing a tin foil hat...)
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