In the old days you could kill without being questoned so much.
Sep/15/06 14:31
Mr. President,
I saw your speech today. You sounded a little out of control.
Quit picking on David Gregory, he is just asking a simple question. Do you want captured CIA, FBI, and ordinary soldiers to be treated as you propose to treat people that you capture?
It's a trick question because we know you don't care about anyone individual soldier here or there that gets caught and tortured; otherwise, you would have sent more troops into Iraq, gave them up-to-date flak jackets, up-armored Humvees, and not constantly seek to cut their benefits when they come home disabled.
This whole argument about the Geneva Conventions begs the question. How come none of the western nations have had any problems with the Geneva Convention that merited changing their national laws since it was instituted back on October 21, 1950?
Although I am sure there have always been individuals within their respective governments that wanted to change the definitions, somehow their current laws, which preserved the rights of ordinary people, prevailed regardless of how vile their enemies are once they were captured deciding that they deserved to be treated within the guidelines by the Geneva Convention.
Perhaps their enemies were "nicer" back then and they didn't kill and murder indiscriminately. Perhaps their enemies had a conscious and can no way compare to today's enemies. Maybe we have "super" enemies that are genetically meaner, more vicious, and more dastardly than any other enemies western governments ever faced before. Nah, you just miss the idea of having a hand at killing people as you did in Texas.
As I remember you enjoyed putting fireworks into live frogs as a boy and didn't you set a record for the most number of executions for any Governor in United States history?
It' simple really, you just want to kill and torture under a law of your own making to make it look as though it is legal.
And besides all that, you and Rummy already gave our people clarity before you invaded Iraq; that's how we wound up with extraordinary rendition, and Abu Gharib and Guantanimo.
The problem is that somebody had to wreck it by taking pictures at Abu Gharib, and somebody else snitched to the Washington Post that you were sending suspects to countries to be tortured by others, and somebody else leaked other stories to the papers about other episodes of torturing and killing suspects while they were in your jails.
Now you have to go public and convince people that you just had to and have to continue killing and torturing people for the good of America. You keep looking for legal black holes were no laws apply, but it just hasn't worked out very well.
Colin Powell petinioned the committee, chairman, John Warner, senators John McCain, and Lindsey Graham, a former armed services senior prosecutor, to kill your proposal of absolving Americans for war crimes as defined by the Geneva Convention. They all refused to listen to your pleas to pass his terrorism bill.
Where did that black knight riding a white horse come from? I thought he was out writing a book or giving speeches at colleges.
How could they do this to you? You had just finished threatening them just hours beforehand and told them you would veto their bill if they passed it. What part of "I am the law," don't they understand?
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: September 15, 2006 2:39:55 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
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defending our freedom, and upholding our Nation's deepest values.
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Thank you again for taking the time to write.
I saw your speech today. You sounded a little out of control.
Quit picking on David Gregory, he is just asking a simple question. Do you want captured CIA, FBI, and ordinary soldiers to be treated as you propose to treat people that you capture?
It's a trick question because we know you don't care about anyone individual soldier here or there that gets caught and tortured; otherwise, you would have sent more troops into Iraq, gave them up-to-date flak jackets, up-armored Humvees, and not constantly seek to cut their benefits when they come home disabled.
This whole argument about the Geneva Conventions begs the question. How come none of the western nations have had any problems with the Geneva Convention that merited changing their national laws since it was instituted back on October 21, 1950?
Although I am sure there have always been individuals within their respective governments that wanted to change the definitions, somehow their current laws, which preserved the rights of ordinary people, prevailed regardless of how vile their enemies are once they were captured deciding that they deserved to be treated within the guidelines by the Geneva Convention.
Perhaps their enemies were "nicer" back then and they didn't kill and murder indiscriminately. Perhaps their enemies had a conscious and can no way compare to today's enemies. Maybe we have "super" enemies that are genetically meaner, more vicious, and more dastardly than any other enemies western governments ever faced before. Nah, you just miss the idea of having a hand at killing people as you did in Texas.
As I remember you enjoyed putting fireworks into live frogs as a boy and didn't you set a record for the most number of executions for any Governor in United States history?
It' simple really, you just want to kill and torture under a law of your own making to make it look as though it is legal.
And besides all that, you and Rummy already gave our people clarity before you invaded Iraq; that's how we wound up with extraordinary rendition, and Abu Gharib and Guantanimo.
The problem is that somebody had to wreck it by taking pictures at Abu Gharib, and somebody else snitched to the Washington Post that you were sending suspects to countries to be tortured by others, and somebody else leaked other stories to the papers about other episodes of torturing and killing suspects while they were in your jails.
Now you have to go public and convince people that you just had to and have to continue killing and torturing people for the good of America. You keep looking for legal black holes were no laws apply, but it just hasn't worked out very well.
Colin Powell petinioned the committee, chairman, John Warner, senators John McCain, and Lindsey Graham, a former armed services senior prosecutor, to kill your proposal of absolving Americans for war crimes as defined by the Geneva Convention. They all refused to listen to your pleas to pass his terrorism bill.
Where did that black knight riding a white horse come from? I thought he was out writing a book or giving speeches at colleges.
How could they do this to you? You had just finished threatening them just hours beforehand and told them you would veto their bill if they passed it. What part of "I am the law," don't they understand?
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: September 15, 2006 2:39:55 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
The President is committed to continuing our economic progress,
defending our freedom, and upholding our Nation's deepest values.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House
cannot respond to every message. Please visit the White House
website for the most up-to-date information on Presidential
initiatives, current events, and topics of interest to you.
In order to better receive comments from the public, a new system
has been implemented. In the future please send your comments to
comments@whitehouse.gov.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.