Yet Another Terra Speech Today: 'Bush to unveil plan for Gitmo trials'

[leftchick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/bush

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is expected to unveil a new plan Wednesday to change the law so that "unlawful combatants" held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, can be tried for crimes before military tribunals.

The Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that the administration's plan to hold criminal trials before military tribunals for some of the detainees violates U.S. and international law. In response, the White House approached Congress about adopting new laws that would allow for such prosecutions. But lawmakers, including top Republicans, insisted that the tribunals include more protections for detainees.

The administration has insisted that "enemy combatants" must not be granted certain legal rights that would expose classified information or hinder interrogations.

At issue is whether Congress should pass legislation authorizing the Pentagon's more stringent tribunal system struck down by the court, or create a new system with trials similar to courts-martial used for prosecuting members of the military.

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Bush's White House speech, planned for 1:45 p.m. EDT, is the third in a series of speeches designed to bolster public support for the war on terror and the administration's Iraq policy.

[C_U_L8R]

1. I'm curious how much

each of these so-called speeches (i call them subsidize campaigning)
are costing us tax payers. I sure didn't ask for em and don't want em.
I'm not buying one bit of it/

[Why Syzygy]

2. Why doesn't he just proclaim dictatorship

and get it the FREAK over? Oh, he did?

What is wrong with the way POW's have always been held accountable? Is this a WAR on Terra, Mr. Chimp? Or a Combatant on Terra?

Can you stand him? :eyes:

[Lerkfish]

3. that isn't really a change, is it? help me out here.

I thought gitmo detainees could ALWAYS be tried by a military tribunal, they just haven't done so because of their own decision to not do so.

on second perusal, I think I'm wrong: this is just another retroactive rubber stamp on current illegal activity.

sheesh. where is the Hague when you need them?

[CJCRANE]

4. "Bush's

White House speech, planned for 1:45 p.m. EDT, is the third in a series of speeches designed to bolster public support for the war on terror and the administration's Iraq policy."

Um...is it me or has most of his time in office just been a "series of speeches designed to bolster public support for the war on terror and the administration's Iraq policy"? (Apart from the vacations and head injuries of course).

[Double T]

5. This guy will never stop breaking the law and pissing on........

OUR FORMER SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. When we have a rogue president that ignores the laws of the legislative Congress and judicial SCOTUS there is no longer a democracy but a dictatorship. President 'George W. Logan' needs to be impeached and removed from office.