Posted on 09/15/2006 5:56:19 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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Sorry to say that I don't know. I sure hope not. The Army may have kept it on the QT. If the media knew about it, it would be the only think they covered 24/7.
On c-span 1 right now they are showing a repeat of the hearing yesterday...when they decided this horrible bill.
Bush To Hold Rose Garden News Conference
UPDATED: 6:44 am PDT September 15, 2006
WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush plans to hold a broadcast news conference this morning to answer GOP lawmakers who've rejected his rules for trying and questioning terror suspects.
The 11:15 a.m. EDT Rose Garden session comes a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee passed its own version of rules -- that Bush says he can't accept.
The president says his rules would clarify fuzzy language in the Geneva Conventions' ban on abusive treatment. But Sen. John McCain -- who was tortured in Vietnam -- said Bush's bill actually undermines Geneva, and would put captured U.S. troops at risk. McCain's view is backed by ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Powell said Bush's proposal to redefine the Geneva Conventions would encourage the world to "doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism" and "put our own troops at risk."
Bush said without a clarification, the CIA would have to shut secret interrogation centers abroad -- and the American people would be endangered.
The rebels also object to Bush's rules for military trials for detainees that allow use of coerced testimony -- and bar defendants from seeing secret evidence against them.
It will be Bush's first news conference since Aug. 21, when he said the Iraq war was "straining the psyche of our country" but that leaving now would be a disaster. Bush has made the struggle against terrorism and the war in Iraq the top issues in the November elections, hoping to persuade voters that Republicans are better than Democrats at protecting the country.
I sure am hoping that Bin Ladin and Nasrallah and Muniyeh are watching what is going on right now..
We sure do want them to be SCARED of our "torture"...NOT.
The terrorists are busy firing off rounds in the air in celebration.
Utterly false. The White House is lobbying for clarification of Article 3, and specific guidelines. Because if we leave definitions up to our courts in their current state, we know what happens. Anything goes.
Senators McCain, Warner, Graham, and Collins simply do not want to protect our troops, and give them that clarification.
I hope he calls the Dem idiots the culture of hate and obstruction.
setting placemark
Ah, yes---and celebrate they should!!
You have the 2 main POTUS candidates in 2008 acting like they are just gonna mollycoddle the terrorists in the future.
If I were any terrorist group...I would lay low, and just do a strike now and then to let the US know we are here...but, just wait until Jan. 2009. Then they will have any all "rights" they need to take over this country.
No, but Ney's guilty plea is a sad commentary on our Republican leadership. It makes one look hard for others who may be dirty...
If Ney is dirty, then anyone is suspect, and that makes me ill.....He stood with his face to the camera and protested his innocence, only a few months ago. A very bad day for the Ohio delegation.
Hey! Down in front!
My point is that the enemy "soldiers" (according to Common Article Three of the Geneva Convention) [end sarcasm] do not take prisoners! They MUTILATE AND KILL American soldiers. The entire premise of Warner/McCain/Powell/Graham, etc argument is STUPID. We are not fighting people who are "soldiers" They are TERRORISTS.
PS: I am not yelling at you. I am screaming in frustration at what the above named cretins are doing to our fighting forces.
Let's not forget Steve Centani - forced at gunpoint to convert to Islam...our future?
Checking in -- what's going on?
I watched part of the hearing yesterday, then had to change the channel. They don't have hearings anymore...they just have campaign speeches while in session.
Our Senate just gave the terrorists the go ahead, and waved the white flag.
I think he's going to be discussing terrorist treatment, torture, the Geneva Conventions rules...
I hope..he is going to smack down McCain, Powell, Graham and the Gang that Values Perception over Reality...
LOL...sorry, I just wanted to blow Bush a kiss!!
This whole thing has gotten the Bushbot in me really MAD!
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