Bush to unveil plan on Guantanamo prisoners...WOW! Fire up the TIVO! WOW!

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Bush to unveil plan on Guantanamo prisoners
Proposal to be announced with president's third speech on terrorism



"Terra, terra, terra, fear, terra, terra, fear, terra...BOO!"

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14689359/

WASHINGTON - President Bush plans to unveil proposed legislation Wednesday to set a structure for conducting trials of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, White House officials said.

The Supreme Court in June rejected as illegal the military tribunal system set up by the Bush administration to try Guantanamo prisoners, most of whom were captured in Afghanistan.

The court said the tribunals -- an alternative legal system -- lacked congressional authorization and did not meet U.S. military or international justice standards.

White House spokesman Tony Snow said the speech will discuss the proposed legislation but also touch on broad issues about how the United States should handle terrorism suspects. "It raises the question, how do you operate, how do you conduct appropriate detention and justice exercises in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision? And what is it we need to do? What are the stakes involved?" Snow said.

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1. This is being presented in concert with

legislation designed to rewrite the army code of conduct and other brakes on torture. It will indemnify those accused of torture. It will "make legal" that which is indefensible.

Remember when you listen (if you have the stomach) that there will, nowhere in his speech, be his own personal definition of "torture"...