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mike gibbins, aberdeen, wa — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:58:45 GMT

America is better than that. to define torture is easy does it pass the "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" test if not then its torture every christian knows that.

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Bryan Harmon — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:08:57 GMT

Although not a Republican, I consider McCain the best of that bad lot. I think he could easily win the general election in '08, but he will never get the chance because the conservative base can't stand him. Or Powell, he could win if it was left up to the whole country, but the right won't let him win the nomination either. I will support anyone who insists that the US has to return to the moral high ground. If WE aren't better than THEM, what is it all for.

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Bob Fertik, New York — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:11:17 GMT

You must be out of your minds to think that a debate on TORTURE helps the GOP. Certainly the polls are totally against you on that.

http://www.democrats.com/torture-polls-1

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Lee Steele — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:15:33 GMT

"Aggressive posturing"? That was a man that was spoiled rotten as a child and never made to take any sort of responsibility, at all, for any of the miserable screw-ups he's caused. He's anything but "presidential." I thought Gregory was going to have a stroke trying to get a simple answer from that simple man.

How soon before ABC produces a "docudrama" to explain to the American public how Bill Clinton mis-managed the war in Iraq?

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Stu Hyvonen — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:12:19 GMT

The more Bush agressively pushes his untenable positions on torture and totally "unfair" trials, the more stupid he looks. It also appears Bush's positions are meant to have ex post facto effect which raises another legal challenge. Those who are in lockstep with him bring to mind the mindless "Brownshirts" of Hitler's Germany.

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Thomas Carlock, Hazel Park Michigan — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:04:13 GMT

In rumsfeld's langauge:
Did Saddam imprison people without access to lawyers, without trial, without charges, in the name of iraqi security?
Yes of course.
Did people die in Saddam's custody?
Yes of course.
Does George W. do that very same thing?
yes of course.
Is Saddam considered evil?
Yes, of course
Ask your self the next question

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Michael Bever, Ontario CA — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:12:35 GMT

Whatever the short term political outcome, the past six years will go down in history (assuming there is history after this) as the Dark Age of the American Ideal. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfield, et al, have made a mockery of the Founders' "shining city on a hill." Lord, have mercy.
Rev. Dr. Michael Bever

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Jim Frego, Grants Pass, OR — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:37:44 GMT

Bush is like the bully on the playground I used to know when I was in elementary school. If you did not play the games by his rules he would not allow anyone to play.
Bush says if congress does not authorize his NSA spying operation, he will just SHUT IT DOWN.
Bush says if congress does not pass legislation to allow him (CIA) to continue torture as a method of interrogation of detainees, he will have everyone STOP INTERROGATING DETAINEES.
Bush says if congress does not pass legislation authorizing Military Tribunals the way he wants the rules of evidence to be , he will NOT HAVE ANY TRIALS for the detainees.
Bush says our military will say in IRAQ even if there is a civil war and 500 of our troops are being killed each month by NON TERRORISTS.

Bush sure reminds me of that bully which one day a much bigger kid showed up and then things went back
to normal where games and rules were decided by the majority of the kids.

Jim Frego
Grants Pass, OR

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Paw Paw — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:54:46 GMT

What could these prisoners possibly know that would be a threat to National Security or how could they be charged with a crime if they don't even know what they are suppose to have done. I didn't know until today that there are 14,000 being held in Cuba and Iraq and new prison facilities costing millions being built as we speak. If the Iraq government passed a bill today requesting the removal of all U.S. forces from Iraq in 30 days Bush and the Dog's of War would not leave they have too much invested in this war and their new bases there to leave. Why are there never any pictures of the Green Zone and the way the Americans there are living in comparison to the Iraqi's "is it a matter of national security"?

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suzanne — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:02:08 GMT

Jim of Grants Pass, Or Well he did tell us he is the decider.