Tell me whose rights the Bush administration violated. ONE case. Give me one. You can't.
Foreigners and enemy combatants have no right to claim our freedoms and rights. They are trying to destroy them.
All men means all men. Our Founders said that all men were endowed these rights by the Creator. It would be foolish to say that the Creator only gave those rights to Americans--and that's why they didn't say it.
They said the Creator gave them to all men
They said that it is self-evident that the Creator gave all men those rights; those inalienable rights.
They weren't speaking in parables; they said what they meant, and to wrangle what they clearly said is the liberal way, not the conservative way.