Religions > Atheism > Colin Powell Calls Bush a Traitor. Rightfully So. (GOP=Treason)
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"Yang, AthD h.c" |
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10 Jun 2007 11:53:39 AM |
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Colin Powell Calls Bush a Traitor. Rightfully So. (GOP=Treason) |
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/10/powell-gitmo/
This morning on NBC’s Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell strongly
condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, calling it “a major
problem for America’s perception” and charging, “if it was up to me, I
would close Guantanamo — not tomorrow, this afternoon.”
He also called for an end to the military commission system the Bush
administration has created to try Guantanamo detainees. “I would
simply move them to the United States and put them into our federal
legal system,” Powell said. He scoffed at criticism that the detainees
would have access to lawyers and the writ of habeas corpus: “So what?
Let them. Isn’t that what our system’s all about?”
“[E]very morning I pick up a paper and some authoritarian figure, some
person somewhere, is using Guantanamo to hide their own misdeeds,”
Powell said. “[W]e have shaken the belief that the world had in
America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open… We
don’t need it, and it’s causing us far more damage than any good we
get for it.”
Watch it:
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| Title: Re: Colin Powell Calls Bush a Traitor. Rightfully So. (GOP=Treason) |
10 Jun 2007 12:43:59 PM |
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On Jun 10, 12:53 pm, "Yang, AthD (h.c)" <eacmole@mail.com> wrote:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/10/powell-gitmo/
This morning on NBC's Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell strongly
condemned the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay,
Lieberman: U.S. should weigh Iran attack
WASHINGTON - Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) said
Sunday the United States should consider a military strike
against Iran because of Tehran's involvement in Iraq.
"I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action
against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq,"
Lieberman said. "And to me, that would include a strike over the
border into Iran, where we have good evidence that they have a base at
which they are training these people coming back into Iraq to kill our
soldiers."
The U.S. accuses Iran of fostering terrorism and Tehran's nuclear
ambitions have brought about international reproach.
Lieberman, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000 who now
represents Connecticut as an independent, spoke of Iranians' role in
the continued violence in Iraq.
"We've said so publicly that the Iranians have a base in Iran at which
they are training Iraqis who are coming in and killing Americans. By
some estimates, they have killed as many as 200 American soldiers,"
Lieberman said. "Well, we can tell them we want them to stop that. But
if there's any hope of the Iranians living according to the
international rule of law and stopping, for instance, their nuclear
weapons development, we can't just talk to them."
He added, "If they don't play by the rules, we've got to use our
force, and to me, that would include taking military action to stop
them from doing what they're doing."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070610/ap_on_go_co/us_iran
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