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

To: longnshort who wrote (749229)	9/14/2006 5:21:09 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Powell: "The World Is Beginning To Doubt The Moral Basis Of Our Fight Against Terrorism"... Associated Press \| LAURIE KELLMAN \| Posted September 14, AP Powell lent his support to three Republican senators Thursday saying that Congress must not pass Bush's proposal to redefine U.S. compliance with the Geneva Conventions, a treaty that sets international standards for the treatment of prisoners of war. Powell sent a letter to Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., one of the Republican lawmakers seeking limits to legislation on interrogations, in the latest sign of GOP division over White House security. "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism," said Powell, who served under Bush and is a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "To redefine Common Article 3 would add to those doubts. Furthermore, it would put our own troops at risk

To: longnshort who wrote (749229)	9/14/2006 5:28:50 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

it would be if it wasn't for your friends the Islamic facists Darn...how was it possible to foresee that if somebody pried the lid off of 1400 years of sunni/shia hatred and mistrust that it might just lead to some problems in developing a Jeffersonian democracy in Iraq? Read today's headlines...the problems in Iraq (another 20 dead) is not the Islamic fascists, defined by GWB as those muslims bent on bringing the West down, no - its the Shia and the Sunni taking out vengence for the insults given to each other's great, great, great grandfathers. One size does not fit all....except in Mr. Bush's mind.