Bush On Military Tribunals: "I Made Absolutely The Right Decision"

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[Recovering_Democrat]

Some Clymer hack (Terry Moran?) just asked Bush for his response to critics that military tribunals endanger a terrorist's Constitutional rights, G.W. said without wavering that these were "extraordinary times", and that he wasn't going to waver. He reminded the leftist press that Franklin Roosevelt, the icon of the socialist Democrats, did the same thing in WWII.

"So to the critics I say, 'I made absolutely the right decision." End of press briefing. Bush was done.

[Recovering_Democrat]

CLASSIC 'IN YOUR FACE' TO THE LEFT! WAY TO GO GEORGE!!

[veronica]

Deal with it.

[cardinal4]

A terrorists constitutional rights?Im not even going to respond further.

[Miss Marple]

He also made the point that these were the most evil people we had ever encountered, and that he had to take into account the safety of potential jurors, and he would ALWAYS do everything he could to protect the American people.

THEN he made that comment about how he made the absolutely right decision.

Excellent! To those who don't like it, well, too bad!

[stop_fascism]

Once again, Bush is right and the intelligensia is wrong. Both sides still batting 1000.

[nicmarlo]

'I made absolutely the right decision." End of press briefing. Bush was done.

End of story. Too bad, so sad. (gotta love that Bush!)

[knighthawk]

How can ANYONE even think about the Constitutional rights of ANY terrorist after 9/11! How come the lefties care about people like them? If you could choose between the Constitutional rights of a terrorist or the lives of many innocents, what would they choose I wonder?

[MJY1288]

This was almost as good as Rumsfeld called a Washington Post reporter a "World Class Thumb Sucker"

The left have had a rough day..... LOL

[Ann Archy]

Did you hear Imus this mornig make the point that OUR military has the same type of courts?? "If it's good enogh for our service people then it's good enough for TOWELHEADS"!! Leave it to Imus.

[Zviadist]

Ah...I love the smell of Stalinism in the morning. You kooks deserve the jackboot that will soon be in your face.

[Ann Archy]

Another point was ...How would they be able to SECURE a Courthouse if Bin Laden was tried in one of our courthouses???? Very Good Question!! And can't you just IMAGINE the threats that jurors would get for their LIFE!!! "Dirty" Jurors could get 140 VIRGINS!!

[america-rules]

The President also made another good point that I haven't heard:

"How do you protect the jury if terrorist are tried in civil courts"

[Zviadist]

A terrorists constitutional rights?Im not even going to respond further.

One thing you geniuses can't quite get through your blockheads: without a trial there is no way of determining who is or is not a terrorist. There are no enemy uniforms, no "al-Quaeda" membership cards. Secret trials are the hallmark of the old Soviet regime. Here, until you totalitarians began grunting so loudly, we have always had the presumption of innocence as the center of our judicial system -- whether foreigner or citizen.

[KeepTheEdge]

Yeah , way to go, Heil George!

Why should an elected representative of the people have to answer for anything he does?

[BikerNYC]

If you could choose between the Constitutional rights of a terrorist or the lives of many innocents, what would they choose I wonder?

A false dichotomy. If it were that simple, why would anyone want consitutional rights for anyone suspected by the government of criminal activity, citizen or no citizen.

[fod]

stroke of the pen, law of land, so much cooler when a republican does this kind of thing

deal with it

[veronica]

When these folks declared war on us they opened themselves up to becoming war criminals and being treated as such. I don't think the relatives of the 9-11 victims should have to endure Johnny Cochran and his ilk playing their courtroom games. Then the appeals for 20 years, then the prison interviews with Connie Chung, and Gore Vidal writing fawning articles about them a la McVeigh.

[SerpentDove]

>>Why should an elected representative of the people have to answer for anything he does?<<

Get bent.

[OldFriend]

LOL sure do love the guy!!!

[Dog]

Oh thank you for that great lecture ....us blockheads stand corrected.....becuase you have spoken.

After 9-11....... terrorist's have NO RIGHTS!

Deal with it!