Detainee Bill Compromise Reached Between Senate Republicans and White House
Frodo:
You will probably have to wait until tomorrow to get the details of this agreement:
Agreement Is Reached on Detainee Bill
By BRIAN KNOWLTON, International Herald Tribune
Published: September 21, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — President Bush and three Republican senators said this afternoon that they had reached an agreement on legislation to clarify which interrogation techniques can be used against terror suspects and to establish trial procedures for those in military custody.
“We did our duty,” said Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, one of the three. He noted that the legislation would still need close study by both houses of Congress.
Mr. Warner and the other two rebellious Republicans, Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, met at the White House with Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, who stood behind Mr. Warner’s shoulder as the senator announced the agreement.
“It is good news and a good day for the American people,” Mr. Hadley said.
Mr. McCain said the agreement means “that the integrity and letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions have been preserved.” The senator said the agreement “gives the president the tools that he needs to continue to fight the war on terror and bring these evil people to justice.”
But Mr. Hadley added a note of conditionality, calling it a “framework for compromise,” and Mr. Warner said that only President Bush’s signature on the bill would complete the agreement.
Mr. Bush welcomed the accord, which he said met his key test of allowing the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogations of terror suspects to continue.
“I’m pleased to say this agreement preserves the most single, the most potent tool we have in protecting America and foiling terrorist attacks,” he said, adding, “The agreement clears the way to do what the American people expect us to do — to capture terrorists, to detain terrorists, to question terrorists, and then to try them.”
Mr. Bush urged the Congress to send him legislation before it goes into recess next week before the fall elections.
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It's all a set up for the so called media to report on. Torture is still allowed. We are no better than the terrorists if we torture random people. Of course your pal Alito likes torture.
J. J.:
How terrible. We're hold people that are trying to kill us in detention. I'm so glad FDR and HST didn't do that during World War II. [/sarcasm]
Ebowed:
Quote from: J. J. on September 21, 2006, 08:34:51 PM
I'm so glad FDR and HST didn't do that during World War II. [/sarcasm]
I don't believe this is particularly relevant, as you seem to be saying that Democrats in general agree with every policy carried out by Roosevelt and Truman. If this were the case, modern-day Democrats would not have a problem with the use of Japanese internment camps during World War II. Obviously, the Democratic Party has changed in many ways since the 1940s, so it is unfair to try and use your fact about FDR and Truman as some sort of great talking point against Democrats on this.
That being said, this issue is about a lot more than what you are trying to make it out to be, simply detaining people who want to kill us. If it were that simple, why would there be such controversy? How does this bill address torture, prison abuse, and the like?
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We haven't tortured or "abused" these prisoners Ebowed.
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