A Repub voice of reason on detainee rights

this is the kind of principled resistance to the barbaric, dictatorial practices, best-suited to a repressive police state, that have been advocated by the bushco gang of criminals...

[Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina] has insisted that only a system grounded in the fundamental rights of the military code and the Geneva conventions will affirm the reputation of the United States abroad and protect American troops when they are captured by enemies.

“What I’m trying to do with my time in the Senate during this whole debate we’re having is to remind the Senate that the rules we set up speak more about us than it does the enemy,” Mr. Graham said in an interview. “The enemy has no rules. They don’t give people trials, they summarily execute them and they’re brutal, inhuman creatures. But when we capture one of them, what we do is about us, not about them.

“Do they deserve, the bad ones, all the rights that are afforded? No. But are we required to do it because of what we believe? Yes.”

yes, indeed, senator graham, it IS about us and, yes, we ARE required to do it because of what we believe... if we stop living by those principles, we might as well officially and publicly nullify the constitution...

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