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(Live Thread) BUSH SETS PRESS CONFERENCE FOR 11:15 AM ET...
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Posted on 09/15/2006 5:56:19 AM PDT by Blue Turtle

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To: sofaman

ew, ow, hope you have a decontamination suit for when you visit DU.


821 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:02 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Mo1

How fitting: Williams is in Cuba.


822 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:06 AM PDT by Howlin (Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
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To: Howlin
You know what they will say now, don't you? They will say that unless Bush gets his way, he will do away with the program.

That's basicially what Tim Russert just said

823 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:16 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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To: Howlin

He'll have to do away with the program, it sounds like. But yeah - you're right. That's what they'll say.


824 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:28 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Miss Marple

I am going to call McCain.

I am going to tell him we expect him to work WITH President Bush.


825 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:28 AM 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: JFC

I got goosebumps listening to his closing remarks. Partly because as I always do when I write to him, i the email I told him that we pray daily for him and for his family. What a man. Thank you God for GWB!


826 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:45 AM PDT by dmd25
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To: CedarDave

827 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:46 AM PDT by maineman
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
Having watched many pressers post 9/11-I get an unusual sense of urgency from President Bush. It looks like he's trying to send a message above and beyond his typical warnings .

Funny, but I had the same feeling. I wonder if there is some intelligence about imminent attacks by AQ against the US Homeland. It wouldn't surprise me if AQ tried to do something before the mid-term elections similar to what they did in Spain.

828 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:51 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Peach

I loved the way he finished the press FIGHT...I'm praying for you Mr. President! God be with you and protect you and your family! No weapon formed against W shall prosper in Jesus name...AMEN!


829 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:52 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Miss Marple

Get to work, MM, and thanks.


830 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:56 AM PDT by altura (Bushbot No. 1 - get in line.)
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To: Peach

huh?


831 posted on 09/15/2006 9:16:58 AM PDT by Mo1 (Think about it .. A Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be 2 seats away from being President)
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Bush defends stance on terror tribunals
832 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:08 AM PDT by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Mo1

I'm sick to death of these appeasers.

And if I heard one more time, "John McCain, former POW.."

Oh, David Gergen calling him BELIGERENT.


833 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:14 AM PDT by Howlin (Who in the press will stick up for ABC's right to air this miniseries? ~~NRO)
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To: Global2010

I bet she was cheering him this morning!


834 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:20 AM PDT by dmd25
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To: Cold Heat

The sad thing is that, for the normal course of war, article 3 isn't really a problem. Normal soldiers are just people doing the bidding of their nations, and when captured they aren't supposed to be held responsible for their leadership. And they aren't supposed to be questioned for intelligence information. They are to be treated with dignity and respect, because they are honorable men fighting for their countries, just as our soldiers are honorable men fighting for our country.

And when the war is over, it doesn't matter that the enemy soldiers had killed american troops, they are sent back to their homes without punishment. And if they are obviously injured and can't fight anymore, they are not to be detained even while the war is going, but sent home immediately. Because again, they are just honorable men fighting for their country.

For some bizarre reason, the Supreme Court decided those same rules had to apply to criminals who violated international law and the geneva convention and the rules of war. Non-enemy combatants who committed and were planning atrocious acts of violence. Never before has the Geneva convention been applied to these people, and now we are stuck because we want to be able to interrogate these criminals, but we have to write a rule that distinguishes between them and the ordinary foot-soldier, and that will be very hard.

Very hard because the Geneva convention already MADE that distinction, and section 3 didn't apply to the terrorists, but the supreme court threw out that distinction, so now we are trying to write a distinction into a section that only applied to normal footsoldiers, and that's very hard to do.

But it can be done, simply by taking the court at their word. Write the rule to distinguish between normal footsoldiers and the people we know the GC didn't apply to, and say we will implement section 3 according to those rules.

Let the Supreme Court come back and tell us that non-enemy combatants HAVE to be treated the same as normal footsoldiers, don't assume we have to do so.

John Warner's complaint when passing his bill through committee was that he didn't want the Supreme Court throwing out a bill, so he wanted to err on the side of caution.

I say, err on the side of right, and let the Supreme Court deal with it. I think we'd win, because Roberts would be allowed to participate, and he would persuade one of the others to vote with him (or maybe better, Stevens might be gone by the time the case came up). We had 3 votes this time, and we know Roberts was on our side because it was HIS court case that was appealed. That's 4, and a couple of the others really sounded like they just wanted the rules clarified, and would be happy to make a distinction between the different classes of prisoners.

So I disagree with my senator strongly.

I also think it's funny that when the house give the president what he wants, and a senate COMMITTEE doesn't, the press says Bush lost. Well, the senate bill goes to the floor, and then there's a conference where it will be changed to the house version, and then we will see if there are 51 votes in the senate to protect terrorists from interrogation. Because if there is only 50 votes, we will win.

Right now, there are 4 republicans on board, and the democrats in the committee. Do we KNOW that Ben Nelson won't be with us, or Joe Leiberman? Isn't it possible that only one more republican will defect?


835 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:21 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: defconw

Open mike on Fox!


836 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:27 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Howlin


Hey ya Howlin!
Better late than never!

Did you see David Gorilla get his comeuppance?


837 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:40 AM 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: tobyhill

"I think Greggory and Thomas are secretly married."

EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwww

Just imagine what thier spawn would be/look like....

YYYYYYYAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK


838 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:46 AM PDT by roaddog727 (Bullsh## doesn't get bridges built.)
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To: Howlin
I think Gregory still has a case of the a$$ from when he got Bush slapped earlier in the presser.
839 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:49 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (12th district Freeper.)
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To: onyx

I'm opening a (rare) midday brew, and settling in for the rest of Rush today. Nice start to the weekend.


840 posted on 09/15/2006 9:17:58 AM PDT by RightField (The older you get ... the older "old" is !)
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