McCain bends principles
Boulder Daily Camera
by Nat Hentoff
10/10/06
Having achieved much attention for insisting that the president obey the Supreme Court and provide detainees with the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the three rebel Republican senators -- John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham -- nonetheless have voted in the 65-to-34 majority for the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Also approved by the House, this bill has George W. Bush's approval. But why do these would-be dissenters support it? Although these warriors for principle say they have now achieved their goal -- 'America can be proud,' adds Graham -- this unprecedented and far-reaching statute makes it impossible for our detainees anywhere in the world to protest in our courts that their conditions of confinement violate the humane standards of the Geneva Conventions...
http://tinyurl.com/ldl53
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
by Nat Hentoff
10/10/06
Having achieved much attention for insisting that the president obey the Supreme Court and provide detainees with the protections of the Geneva Conventions, the three rebel Republican senators -- John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham -- nonetheless have voted in the 65-to-34 majority for the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Also approved by the House, this bill has George W. Bush's approval. But why do these would-be dissenters support it? Although these warriors for principle say they have now achieved their goal -- 'America can be proud,' adds Graham -- this unprecedented and far-reaching statute makes it impossible for our detainees anywhere in the world to protest in our courts that their conditions of confinement violate the humane standards of the Geneva Conventions...
http://tinyurl.com/ldl53
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
rudkla - 11. Okt, 16:38
