Va. Hopefuls Spar on Terror Legislation

[Omaha Steve]

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Va. Hopefuls Spar on Terror Legislation
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Sep 17, 6:07 PM (ET)

By BOB LEWIS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb said Sunday that President Bush's terror-detainee legislation would weaken the Geneva Conventions and potentially subject captured U.S. soldiers to torture.

"We have to stay on the moral high ground," Webb said during a debate with his opponent, Republican Sen. George Allen, on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Allen said he has not decided whether to back Bush's plan to detain, question and prosecute suspected terrorists or another measure supported by Republican Sen. John Warner, Virginia's senior senator.


In this photograph provided by "Meet the Press", Incumbent Sen. George Allen, R-Va., left, and his Democratic challenger, former Navy Secretary Jim Webb debate on "Meet the Press" during a taping at the NBC studios Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006 in Washington. (AP Photo/Meet the Press, Alex Wong

The president's measure would allow classified evidence to be withheld from defendants in terror trials and use coerced testimony.

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[rodeodance]

1. Does Webb wear a toupee?

[AlCzervik]

2. "Spar" thats gobbeldygook, Allen bleated like a sheep and wouldn't

commit to supporting Mccain and Warner, he'll of course vote for whatever Bush tells him to.

[spartan61]

3. I am now calling George Allen "Fred Astaire" because he danced around

all the questions instead of answering them.