And sense when has any terrorist CARED what the Geneva Convention has to say? It’s ridiculous in this day and age. Those rules are to constrain superpowers from dominating their enemies.

What other countries abide by these rules except the US and Britain? Seriously…this is outrageous and time to CHANGE THE MENTALITY of those that just accept things because “that’s the way we’ve always done it”.

I think Bush is prepared to veto anything that he thinks is weak. The House is with him so a veto would stand. This could have something to do with trying to avoid a filibuster, but I do not think that Bush is done with this by a long shot.

If McCain gets the Republican nomination, the Dems will run a swift boat vets type campaign using fellow POWs who will claim Mccain was a turncoat who betrayed his fellow POWs in exchange for better treatment, food and women visitors. At least on ex intel. agent has already been on talk radio claiming that “Songbird McCain” fathered several mixed race children while a POW.

If McCain does not get the Rep. nomination, they will run him as an independent to split the anti Hillary vote. McCain already has ties to George Soros who will back both his and Hillary’s campaigns.

McCain has been a thorn in George Bush’s side since he lost the Rep. Primary in 2000. If you remember he tied up Congress with his Campaign Finance Reform, preventing Bush from getting his Cabinet and judicial nominees aapproved, while the Dems. worked on Jeffords to get him to switch sides giving the Dems. control of the Senate. At the time Dem Party leaders went to Ariz. and there was speculation that McCain too would switch sides. McCain is vindictive and will stop at nothing to get even with those who humiliated him. If the Republican Party turns it’s back on him again he will do his best to destroy the Republican party. I am surprised that Lindsay Graham is not smart enough to know that tying his future to McCain’s coat tails is a no brainer.

“1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, …”

In other words, noncombatant civilians and non-fighting members of the armed forces. I don’t know where Colonel Lindsey went to Senior Service School, but he either slept through this lesson or must have phoned it in.

Hot Air has a lot of analysis on this one.

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The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted 15-9 to recommend a bill — over the objections of the Bush administration — that would authorize tribunals for terror suspects in a …

The Senate passed legislation today that would allow terrorists captured in the field to be given access to classified evidence against them. This would include the names of those undercover agents that identified them.
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President Bush talks to reporters in on Capitol Hill Washington, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006, following a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on national security issues. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook) The Senate Armed Services Committee has voted against …

I heard Bush say he wanted this clarified in a way that the CIA has no doubts as to what humiliating treatment really is. The House supports Bush’s plan as does Frist, so there is some doubt as to whether this bill will even come to the floor for a vote. Graham is a JAG lawyer and I think that he still thinks like one sometime. I don’t think he is concerned about protecting terrorists, so much as he wants everything done by the book, and Warner says he wants it to stand up to a Supreme Court ruling. The SCOTUS has said these people can be held for some time, until the end of hostilities. So the problem is not that the government has to sit them free, it is how to try them. They can not however, force Bush to do anything with these people.