"terror tribunals"

[FMJeff]

<p><a href="http://www.ronfez.net/2006/POLITICS/09/15/bush/index.html">Bush defends stance on proposed terror tribunals</a></p><p>I'm putting this one up for absurd story title of the week. </p><p>What the hell is a terror tribunal? Isn't it terrorist tribunals? Or are we actually putting the emotional concept of terror on the stand?</p><p>Why not fart tribunals? Why not make farts stand trial for thier crimes against the senses? </p><p>Is the media just running out of opportunities to attach the word &quot;terror&quot; to something? </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Furtherman]

Ladies and gentelmen, silent but deadly.&nbsp; And your children are walking the streets where these farts can freely pick and choose who to infiltrate.&nbsp; Silently.&nbsp; Deadly.&nbsp;

[Dougie Brootal]

<strong>FMJeff</strong> wrote:<br /><p><a href="http://www.ronfez.net/2006/POLITICS/09/15/bush/index.html">Bush defends stance on proposed terror tribunals</a></p><p>I'm putting this one up for absurd story title of the week. </p><p>What the hell is a terror tribunal? Isn't it terrorist tribunals? Or are we actually putting the emotional concept of terror on the stand?</p><p><font style="background-color: #ffff00">Why not fart tribunals? Why not make farts stand trial for thier crimes against the senses?</font> </p><p>Is the media just running out of opportunities to attach the word &quot;terror&quot; to something? </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/lol.gif" border="0" />&nbsp;<img src="http://www.ronfez.net/messageboard/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/clap.gif" border="0" /></p>

[reeshy]

Why does the world bow to Liberals?????????????????????????<br />

[HBox]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />Why does the world bow to Liberals?????????????????????????<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yeah, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Warner: the center of the left wing conspiracy.&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

Yup....you're right, Hbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reagan forever!!!!!!!!!!!<br />

[HBox]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />Yup....you're right, Hbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reagan forever!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I thought you wanted to torture terrorists, not sell them weapons.<br /></p>

[sr71blackbird]

Be kind to terrorits!&nbsp; When they see how kind we are, they will stop attacking us!

[Tall_James]

<strong>HBox</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />Yup....you're right, Hbox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Reagan forever!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font color="#000080"><font size="2">I thought you wanted to torture terrorists, not sell them weapons.</font></font><br /></p><p>Can we compromise by selling them defective weapons that blow up in their faces?</p><p>That way everyone wins!</p>

[Dirtybird12]

<p>George Bush is the king of all terrorists</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now this blood thirsty killer is telling Americans what is UNACCEPTABLE....to THINK!</p><p><a href="http://www.thecosmiccircus.com/Circus/Media/Bush.mp3" target="_self">listen for yourself.mp3</a></p>

[HBox]

<p>&nbsp;</p><strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br />Be kind to terrorits! When they see how kind we are, they will stop attacking us!<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No, let's just systematically torture everyone who looks even remotely like an Arab. The world will understand. They'll all just think we mean business. They won't shun us or look at us as blood thirsty, inhuman monsters. And it certainly won't make more Middle Easterners hate us.<br /></p>

[Yerdaddy]

<p>A really impressive piece of journalism from the NYT Magazine: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/magazine/17guantanamo.html?_r=1&ref=world&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin" target="_blank">The Battle for Guant*namo </a></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/washington/17detain.html" target="_blank">How 3 G.O.P. Veterans Stalled Bush Detainee Bill </a></p><p>[QUOTE]WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 &mdash; Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham cornered their partner, Senator John W. Warner, on the Senate floor late Wednesday afternoon.</p><p>Mr. Warner, the courtly Virginian who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had been trying for weeks to quietly work out the three Republicans&rsquo; differences with the Bush administration&rsquo;s proposal to bring terrorism suspects to trial. But Senators McCain, of Arizona, and Graham, of South Carolina, who are on the committee with Mr. Warner, convinced him that the time for negotiation was over.</p><p>The three senators, all military veterans, marched off to an impromptu news conference to lay out their deep objections to the Bush legislation. Mr. Warner then personally broke the news to Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, and the next day the Armed Services Committee voted to approve a firm legislative rebuke to the president&rsquo;s plan to reinterpret the Geneva Conventions. </p><p>It was a stinging defeat for the White House, not least because the views of Mr. Warner, a former Navy secretary, carry particular weight. With a long history of ties to the military, Mr. Warner, 79, has a reputation as an accurate gauge to views that senior officers are reluctant to express in public. Notably, in breaking ranks with the White House, Mr. Warner was joined by Colin L. Powell, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in a rare public breach with the administration he served as secretary of state. </p><p>As Mr. Warner left his Senate office on Friday afternoon, he carried a briefcase of material to prepare for a potential legislative showdown in the coming days. At stake, he said, was more than the fate of &ldquo;these 20-odd individuals,&rdquo; a reference to the high-level terrorism suspects awaiting possible trial at Guant*namo Bay, Cuba. </p><p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s how America&rsquo;s going to be perceived in the world, how we&rsquo;re going to continue the war against terror,&rdquo; Mr. Warner said. </p><p>Then he showed off the motto on his necktie: &ldquo;Democracy is not a spectator sport.&rdquo; Ronald Reagan had a similar tie, Mr. Warner said, and had given him a copy. </p><p>Democrats and Republicans alike had assumed that Mr. Warner, a smooth negotiator not given to public confrontation, would relent to the administration, especially considering the importance Republicans had placed on passing the legislation as midterm elections approached.</p><p>The thinking was that Mr. McCain, who was tortured as a Vietnam prisoner of war, would not budge, nor would Mr. Graham, a military lawyer and zealous guardian of military standards. That left Mr. Warner as the best potential target for the White House. But as he considered the consequences of the proposal, the chairman decided to stick to his guns, saying he believed the nation&rsquo;s reputation was at stake. </p><p>&ldquo;He is a man of the Senate,&rdquo; said Mr. Graham, arguing that Mr. Warner&rsquo;s stance spoke volumes because it went against his nature to have so visible a conflict. &ldquo;He is also a military man and has thought long and hard about this.&rdquo;</p><p>Mr. Bush seems equally determined to win provisions he says are needed to interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects. He and his allies are ratcheting up pressure on Senate Republicans who support alternate rules adopted this week by the Armed Services Committee. Mr. Warner, like his two colleagues, has a network of high-ranking current and retired military officers who provide regular guidance and support. While he has been consulting them privately, some are expected to weigh in publicly in the days ahead. One ai

[Jujubees2]

<p><font size="2">This is exactly why we need some controls in place.&nbsp; Can you imagined being pulled off the street, taken to a foreign country and tortured for no reason?</font></p><p><a href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18316511.htm">http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N18316511.htm</a></p>