Comments on: GOP Makes Deal On Detainees

Republicans Hope For Political Boost From Accord On Terror War Detainees

[drgoodwin12]

I wonder if when Bush refers to war crimes and cruel interrorgation techniques to be in compliance with the Geneva Convention does he think of himself and his staff.After all we invaded Iraq who poised no threat and since then the death toll of ordinary Iraqis by militias,insurgents,terrorist and our own military has almost reached the level that Saddam had reached in his 20 year rule.Invading a country,planning for it 11 days into office and creating these kinds of conditions constitutes war crimes.

[searingtruth]

"But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, the Nuremberg Diary

"... to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists ..."
Dec 6, 2001, Attorney General Ashcroft

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse ... By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself in us."
Aldous Huxley

"We have become the evil we fought."
SearingTruth

"Islamic fascists" indeed! You need to tune out Rush and his dittoheads long enough to consult a dictionary, meyerda. Fascism is the congruence of the state and the corporation. As for the rest of the screed, why not find a transcript of Limbaugh and simply cut & paste? He obviously does your thinking for you, and other readers wouldn't have to navigate your tortured syntax.

[xfredmenzies]

Oh good, I'm sure the agreement contains something like: "Chopping of three or more fingers is considered torture, and is not allowed. Chopping off two or less fingers is okay." The reason the compromise took so long is because they had to decide if thumbs count as fingers.

These are the people who were considering induced hypothermia and waterboarding as legally allowed methods. They make me sick.

[sharncedar]

"It's far more likely that the non-Christian, non-Republicans will be dragged off in this country"

Nah, Bush and the Christians are being set up. They'll take the heat. They will be allowed enough rope to do the damage to the civil liberties, the real target of the powerful, then whack em to make everyone feel better. But the new expanded corporate/government powers stay in place. It's a simple play, yawn. Typical play, but our folks are just toooo dumb.

Maybe Hillary next? She will have to have new police powers to fight big drug companies etc., wait and see.

It's like the Roman power struggle near the end of the republic, I think, if so the tyrant populists win the final hand, because there is more money to be made by killing the rich on "behalf" of the people.

[sharncedar]

"You can't fight a war without interigating prisoners"

We did not torture in WWII. We won that war. We did not torture in the Civil War. We followed the Geneva Conventions in WWII and we won the war. Have you checked your facts lately. What you are thinking about is a TV show, This is the real world. If you don't know the difference, please confine your vote to "American Idol".

[getcentered]

"The agreement that we've entered into gives the president the tools he needs to continue to fight the war on terror and bring these evil people to justice," said Sen. John McCain

McCain!? What the? He must need some political clout right now, just like all the rest of the GOP'ers, and Republicans. Since when did the President of the United States not have the tools he needed to fight terrorism? If they think we will never be attacked again, then they are ignorantly mistaken.

As far as the "war on terror" goes, well it didn%u2019t start with your office and it's not going to end with your office. I don't even think you understand what a "war on terror" is. It's not really a "war". It's a LAGRE scale criminal investigation, won mostly by surveillance, intelligence and the ability to respond quickly to in coming threats. Terrorism has always been there, and Americans have often been the targets, but there isn't just ONE enemy. One of the goals of our terrorist enemies is to gain clout through attacking us. YOU GAVE IT TO THEM! WHY? You are the cause for thousands of new terrorists recruits. You are making the problem bigger by including Iraq in your so vague "war on terror". Mr. President you and your talking point robots of a constituency have lost my confidence. My vote is not going to be aligned with the GOP. Your party shows no willingness to show individuality, intelligence, and a freewill.
Mr. President, you and the GOP have failed us. WE WILL REMEMBER.

[kwlambi]

Gee I waited for a reply about the freedom of speech complaint, earlier, but I do agree katie wont make it...Her boring drone of a monologue without expression is lacking anything close to her peers, the fact that CBS and not Katie, include an illegal immigrant on the newscast, is irrelvant, it doesnt matter, Im not sure anyone is watching CBS

[meyerda]

I aplaud president Bush and the rebulicans for reaching an agreement. You can't fight a war without interigating prisoners. America has forgotten that we are at war. The Islamic fascist will not follow laws and rules. These are people who cuts off heads with dull kives just because a person is Jewish. You can not negotiate with terrorist and you can not trust them. Look at the number of times Sadam Insane broke resolutions before the Iraq war.
The only mistake President Bush made was that he waited on the UN and stupid resolutions before he went in to Iraq. We should have attacked Iraq right away without UN resolutions. We could have caught the weapons of mass destruction before they ever entered Seria. How we have biological weapons in the hands of terrorist just waiting for another attack. We should have went in sooner.

[terminalman1-2009]

CBS NEWS HARBORING CRIMINALS. THR FREEDOM OF SPEECH SEGMENT HAD AN ILLEGAL ALIEN SPEAKING. FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS SOMETHING THAT ONLY CITIZENS OF THE U.S. ARE ALLOWED BECAUSE THEY ARE CITIZENS. THE ILLEGAL ALIEN SPEAKING TONITE IS NOT A CITIZEN SO HE HAS NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. KATIE COURIC IS THE WORST NEWSCASTER I'VE EVER SEEN. NOW SHE'S ALLOWING CRIMINALS ON TO THE SHOW.