Bush warns detainee program might end

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 16, 2006, 3:53PM | MICHAEL HEDGES and PATTY REINERT

[upchuck]

Warner, McCain, Graham, Collins.

RINOs out!

Thanx to SC Swamp Fox for the graphic.

[The Red Zone]

Fair 'nuff. "The people" must choose what they want.

[Jeff Chandler]

"It's unacceptable to think there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective."

He's still using the "I" word. Good. 5 years too late, but good nonetheless.

[peyton randolph]

Warner, McCain, Graham, Collins.

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The detainees should be placed under house arrest in the residences of these traitorous schmucks. Let the RINOs quote the Geneva Convention when protecting their families.

[plain talk]

Why not wait until after the election? If the Republicans still control Congress, issue an Executive Order and be done with it.

[upchuck]

Good question. I don't know.

[StoneWall Brigade]

funny that Mccain choose the week of 9/11 to do this huh?

[gotribe]

Warner and fellow Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have argued that changing the standard would open the door for other countries to interpret the rules on prisoner treatment in ways that could endanger captured Americans.

Please Messrs. Warner, McCain, and Graham, please tell me when American prisoners of war were last treated humanely by a nation that signed the Geneva Conventions. Germany? Japan? Korea? Vietnam? Where are these enlightened nations that treat our own so well?

[Fiddlstix]

Please Messrs. Warner, McCain, and Graham, please tell me when American prisoners of war were last treated humanely by a nation that signed the Geneva Conventions. Germany? Japan? Korea? Vietnam? Where are these enlightened nations that treat our own so well?

Well Said!

[operation clinton cleanup]

Bush said the standards are so vague that CIA officers could face criminal prosecution for using interrogation techniques such as applying heat or cold to prisoners' surroundings or temporarily withholding food or light.

McCain, of all people should understand what is at stake here. This is not about beating, cutting, or electrocuting prisoners.

[speekinout]

You forget - the Courts decided that he exceeded his authority by deciding this issue. He has to have a law passed by Congress.

And if this doesn't motivate Conservatives to keep a GOP President and Senate in order to get constructionist judges, I don't know what will.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Awesome graphic SC Swamp Fox!

[upchuck]

Ping to #1 and #12.

[RightWhale]

Detainee program is like prisoners, right?
Taking no prisoners now?

[upchuck]

I think that is what President Bush is threatening.

Maybe we'll just kill 'em instead? Needs to be done anyway.

[melt]

There are several key differences between the Bush administration's plan and the Warner-McCain-Graham bill, but the critical impasse is about the Geneva Conventions'

Actually, the difference is in the spelling. We get to follow the Geneva convention--- while the Muslims get to follow the Gen'evil' convention.

At least these low-foreheaded RINOS are being consistent in their "feelings" that we can win an asymmetric war by losing it. I think they deserve a group hug...

[shield]

Bush warns detainee program might end

NOT TRUE...IF HE CAN'T GET WHAT HE WANTS OUT OF THE SENATE [HOUSE HAS ALREADY GIVEN HIM WHAT HE WANTS]...IT WILL END!!!

[musicman]

I REALLY liked this recent FR thread:

"Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699197/posts

If anyone missed it, IMHO, it is WELL worth reading (and maybe e-mailing to McCain and his "boys and girl").

[Gritty]

I say drop them off on the front porches of McCain, Warner, Graham and the rest of the Dems on this committee. Let them see how well they can handle them.

In the meantime, if there is no way we can handle these prisoners, there is no sense in taking any more.

[JasonC]

Since they got the language actually used from his own bill, of course he knows. He just can't grandstand about if if Bush keeps on agreeing with him and giving him what he asked for. So he has to keep moving the goalposts. Left. His latest is wanting domestic civilian judges to oversee it all - an open invitation for every Clinton appointee on the bench to arraign the administration on spurious charges of torture for the next 2 years, while the chorus calls him Hitler and urging his assassination etc. It is all in the playbook of the FLN in Algeria incidentally, and no matter how differently we act than the French did, the left calls the exact same plays expecting them to work again like they did last time. It is comical really.