Hitler/Bush demands his Reich!

Bush faces Senate rebellion on tribunals

By Vicki Allen and Thomas Ferraro 1 hour, 21 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate committee rebelled against
President George W. Bush on Thursday, passing a bill it said would protect
the rights of foreign terrorism suspects and repair a U.S. image damaged by
harsh treatment of detainees.

Hours after Bush went to Capitol Hill to urge fellow Republicans to back his
proposals for putting terrorism suspects on trial, a divided Senate Armed
Services Committee approved its own bill which it said would meet demands of
the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down Bush's original plan.

******No; he stood before republicans to push for an insane, and
ANTI-DEMOCRACY kangaroo court.

The committee also resisted Bush's bid to more narrowly define the Geneva
Conventions' standards for humane treatment of prisoners, which Bush said
was essential to enable the
CIA to elicit valuable information from detainees.

********** the CIA! We agreed to the Geneva Convention because it was the
honorable and right thing to do. Of course, since Bush has absolutely NO
honor, he would scrap that as much as he has scrapped our own
Constitution!****************



Bush has been under fire for indefinite detentions and harsh treatment of
foreign suspects at Guantanamo Bay as well as abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq. Human rights groups say mistreatment of prisoners has damaged U.S.
moral standing.


**********Bush has no morals either! **************


Some lawmakers say they fear the practices put American soldiers at greater
risk of harm or abuse if they are captured in conflicts overseas.

The bill -- pushed by chairman John Warner of Virginia and fellow Republican
heavyweights John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina --
cleared the committee 15-9 with support from Democrats and Maine Republican
Susan Collins.

*****************Apparently there are still some fanatical, conservative
republicans who "think" (I use the term loosely) like Bush. "*** human
rights", "*** fairness, honor and integrity", "*** the Geneva Convention",
and "*** our own constitution" ... "WE WANT POWER!!!!!" ************

The committee bill would require that defendants have access to classified
evidence used against them, limit the use of hearsay evidence and restrict
the use of evidence obtained by coercion.

The full Senate will take up the issue as early as next week, meaning
Republicans could be in a bitter debate among themselves over national
security issues which they view as key to maintaining control of Congress in
November elections.

Democrats have stayed out of the fray, letting the Republicans show their
divisions over Bush's handling of detainees scooped up since the September
11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people five years ago.

WHITE HOUSE REACTS

Hoping to head off another setback over measures he insists are necessary to
fighting the war on terrorism, Bush met earlier in a closed session with
Republicans in the House of Representatives.

*********From the same man who insisted we needed to invade Iraq!!!!! ******


This month Bush was forced to acknowledge that the United States had
detained high-level terror suspects at secret CIA prisons overseas. The U.S.
military also revised its interrogation practices, banning such techniques
as forced nudity, hooding, using dogs, conducting mock executions or
simulated drownings known as "waterboarding."

Facing a possible loss in the overall Senate, the administration said after
the vote it may wait to press its case when House and Senate negotiators
meet at a conference to work out a final version of the bill.

The main debate with the White House was over its effort to write
definitions of what would be inhumane treatment under the Geneva
Conventions. Administration officials said the standards were vague and must
be clarified to protect CIA interrogators from prosecution and to allow the
CIA's "high value terrorist detention" program to continue.

***************Pure B.S. It's nothing more than the continuing action of
acting like a "Forth Reich". ************



But Warner, McCain and Graham said that would encourage other countries to
interpret the protections to meet their own needs, which would backfire on
U.S. personnel in future wars.

McCain, who was himself a prisoner in the Vietnam War, released a letter
from Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell, that said the "world is
beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism." Powell
said he opposed Bush's bid to redefine the Geneva Conventions that require
humane treatment of prisoners.

********"Beginning to doubt?" They started doubting the minute George
changed attention from 9/11, and put it on the fanatical obsession with
Iraq!
Time and history are proving them right. ****************


The White House countered with a letter from current Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice saying Bush's plan would "strengthen U.S. adherence" to the
Geneva Conventions and would "help demonstrate to our international partners
that we are committed to compliance" with the standards.

*********Yea .... right ........ just like the illegal invasion of Iraq
will:
Be welcomed with open arms. Stop terrorism. Cost little (because their oil
will pay the costs) . Be over quickly - when Iraq can run it's own nation
with it's own military. Lead to an American like democracy.
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