Posted on 09/15/2006 5:56:19 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
ew, ow, hope you have a decontamination suit for when you visit DU.
How fitting: Williams is in Cuba.
That's basicially what Tim Russert just said
He'll have to do away with the program, it sounds like. But yeah - you're right. That's what they'll say.
I am going to call McCain.
I am going to tell him we expect him to work WITH President Bush.
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!
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.
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!
Get to work, MM, and thanks.
huh?
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.
I bet she was cheering him this morning!
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?
Open mike on Fox!
Hey ya Howlin!
Better late than never!
Did you see David Gorilla get his comeuppance?
"I think Greggory and Thomas are secretly married."
EEEEWWWWWWWWWWWwwwwwww
Just imagine what thier spawn would be/look like....
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I'm opening a (rare) midday brew, and settling in for the rest of Rush today. Nice start to the weekend.
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