Blair's wife supports Supreme Court on dealing a blow to Bush Gitmo policy

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Mrs. Blair bashes Bush on Cuba detentions

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/10/31/blair/index.html

Oct. 31, 2004 | BOSTON (AP) -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair's wife implicitly criticized President Bush in a talk at Harvard University, saying she supported a U.S. Supreme Court decision that dealt a blow to his policy on Guantanamo Bay detainees, a newspaper reported Sunday.

The prime minister, a close ally of Bush, has remained studiously neutral in the presidential race, and his wife, Cherie Booth, has generally avoided commenting on American politics.

But in a closed-door speech to about 100 people at Harvard, Booth praised a Supreme Court decision in a case brought by two Britons freed from Guantanamo, according to London's The Mail on Sunday, which said it obtained a leaked copy of the talk. The ruling said foreign terrorism suspects may use the American legal system to challenge their detention, a blow to Bush's policy of holding detainees at Guantanamo without judicial review.

Booth called the decision "profoundly important" and a "significant victory for human rights and the international rule of law," the newspaper reported.

[Free2BMe]

1. she is one cool broad.

[asjr]

2. Cherie Blair and Theresa Kerry--equals. They will be able to

have an intelligent conversation.