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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748680)	9/6/2006 2:33:42 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Coburn-Obama is the most refreshing idea to be proposed in Congress since Congressional term limits in the Newt era. Will the growing club of the senile and half wits in the Senate be able to drag it into the Grassley jungle and bury it in corn-fed quicksand? Or maybe rev it up and drive it off the bridge to nowhere?... Message 22783638

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (748680)	9/6/2006 10:13:56 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged for the first time that the CIA runs secret prisons overseas.... "...The proposal is likely to prompt a showdown on the Senate floor among Republicans. GOP moderates John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham have drafted a rival proposal." "Their version would guarantee certain legal rights to defendants common in military and civilian courts that Bush's proposal omits, including a defendant's right to access to all evidence used against him." "Graham, R-S.C., said withholding evidence from an alleged war criminal would set a dangerous precedent other nations could follow. "Would I be comfortable with (an American servicemember) going to jail with evidence they never saw? No," Graham said...." forbes.com Copyright 2006 Associated Press