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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:50 PM
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Aren't secret prisons against the law ??
Not to mention the Geneva Convention and our own military rules? When Bush said he transferred 14 prisoners to Gitmo, didn't he admit to breaking the law? Why isn't he in jail? Why isn't he even called on it - by the Democrats or by the press? Am I missing something here? Where are the questions??
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:51 PM
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1. In the infamous words of Richard Nixon:
"It isn't illegal if the President does it."
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Keepontruking Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-15-06 12:35 AM
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10. Illegal prisons
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I'm sorry we are discussing Bush law here aren't we????? Circus Girl
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Mr_Jefferson_24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:53 PM
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2. Matt Lauer did call him on it...
Edited on Thu Sep-14-06 10:56 PM by Mr_Jefferson_24
...he said "we disagree" that it's illegal---he's so full of shit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrUFIDFi8is

Look at Chimpy's body language, facial expressions, threatening hand gesturing, and just his general discomfort with this one on one interview situation---not a well man.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 11:00 PM
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6. It's the verbal equivalent of a signing statement, and B*sh is...
...consumed with pseudo self-righteous moral indignation that anyone would dare question him about it. He is a megalomaniac of gargantuan proportions. I agree with his supporters that it's unfair to compare him to Hitler. Given the opportunity, Bush would make Hitler look like a boy scout.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:55 PM
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3. I guess that is why the prisons are outside the country and outside
perhaps the geneva conventions. If nobody american actually does the shit...then...what law is broken?

Was very weird the way * answered that question. Like Louise Arbour standing up and saying: "IF CIVILIANS ARE TARGETTED & KILLED IN LEBANON ISRAEL WILL BE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES" really hit home. The Israelis were terrified. Perhaps their infallability and the delusion that they are above it all has finally popped amid that whole group of snakes.

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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:57 PM
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4. I think the Democrats need to press this issue...
It's important. Bill Clinton lied about sex and was impeached. George Bush tells the truth about secret prisons and nobody says anything? What does he have to do to get him out of office??
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Arkham House Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 10:59 PM
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5. We have no "rule of law" in this country anymore...
...not since the Coup of 2000. There is no "law"--there is only power...
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Vidar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 11:43 PM
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7. Law is so 20th century.
Edited on Thu Sep-14-06 11:44 PM by Vidar
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az chela Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 11:49 PM
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8. I have asked that same question a million times since that crook
stole the election.He makes up his own laws as he goes along and then changes them when he feels like it.
If someone doesnt press charges against all the criminals this country is down the tubes!!!!
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-14-06 11:53 PM
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9. I thought that they were nm
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