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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: microhoogle! who wrote (582075)	6/11/2004 1:01:39 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

All I am saying is let us openly come out and say that Geneva conventions in present form are not tenable and need additional clauses to deal with enemy combatants. But if the current administration did that, would you sincerely support its position here? I think not. Bush should make this case you've mentioned, but he never will. America is entering a new and terribly destructive political paradigm, when even memos to the President are demanded by Congress, simply because they contain a bit of non-policy theorizing. If you attack him here, you will certainly attack him were he to make a case against Geneva. I highly suspect Bush thinks in this way. So he will never make a move here - unfortunately. I am sure that part will be easy to swallow and being nation of laws that we are, we continue to abide with Geneva conventions with new clauses. It would not be easy, I don't think. The President's enemies would eat him alive, even on this point. Worst case scenario we can always threaten to walk away with GC. But undermining GC is not good for us in the long run. I agree. America won't intentionally undermine Geneva, but she is too afraid to make changes to it. The world is a leftist's world now.