Bush Admin sez: Guantanamo detention lawsuits must be dismissed - reason? Law signed by Bush last month
By James Vicini
Reuters 13 Nov 06 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Monday that Guantanamo prisoners have no constitutional right to challenge their detention before U.S. federal judges, and the lawsuits by hundreds of detainees must be dismissed.
In papers filed with a U.S. appeals court in Washington, Justice Department attorneys gave their most detailed argument yet that the cases must be dismissed because of the tough anti-terrorism law signed by President George W. Bush last month. |
AFP
14 Nov 06 No softening in policy and no talks : President George W. Bush's warning on Iran and Syria defied a drumbeat of calls at home and abroad for the United States to engage its two foes.
From Britain to Australia and in the political echo chamber in Washington, the notion of diplomatic outreach to Damascus and Tehran is being mooted as part of a possible fresh strategy to end Iraq's torment. But Bush Monday signalled his looming "lame duck" status, loss of allies in Congress and a foreign intervention would not force a climbdown. |
By Bill Gallagher
Niagara Falls Reporter DETROIT -- President George W. Bush is a better actor than his director, Vice President Dick Cheney. Watching the two chumming it up with Democratic congressional leaders was the true measure of their relative theatrical skills.
Bush did his best to pretend he respects democracy and that quaint Article I of the U.S. Constitution that describes the powers and authority of the Congress. So accustomed to being the undisputed "decider" with the gelded Republicans running Capitol Hill, Bush now is forced to deal with Democrats who believe Congress is a co-equal branch of government, not the handmaiden of the executive. Cheney couldn't even feign respect for that principle. He tried to smile, but his body language said it all. |
Georgie Anne Geyer
13 Nov 06 WASHINGTON -- I spent an unusual day with George W. Bush in the fall of 2000, just before he was first elected president. During that interview, I innocently said to him, "I suppose you're getting a lot of help from Jim Baker ..."
To my amazement, his entire face contorted almost grotesquely. But the exchange over his father's close friend continued: "Oh, Jimmy," George W. then said, his voice thick with condescending derision. "I talk to him maybe twice a year." How amazing is life! For now, that same "Jimmy" Baker stands on W.'s fractured horizon as the besieged president's only savior -- not to mention as the agent of his father's retribution. |
By Jon Meacham
Newsweek Nov. 20, 2006 issue George Herbert Walker Bush is a proud father; tears easily come to his eyes when he thinks of his children, all of them, and there is gracious deference in his tone when he talks about the son he calls, with emphasis, "The President." He is not given to boasting about or bragging on his family; he still hears his mother's voice warning him to avoid "the Great I Am," but several times over the past few years the 41st president has mentioned to visitors that the 43rd president has read the Bible in its entirety-not once, the father says, but twice, sticking two fingers in the air. If so, then the incumbent may recall the Song of Moses: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee."
Comment: What a bleeding-heart, phoney crock of horse hockey!
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By Peter Spiegel
Times Staff Writer November 4, 2006 WASHINGTON - Richard N. Perle, the former Pentagon advisor regarded as the intellectual godfather of the Iraq war, now believes he should not have backed the U.S.-led invasion, and he holds President Bush responsible for failing to make timely decisions to stem the rising violence, according to excerpts from a magazine interview.
Perle - a leading neoconservative who chaired the Pentagon's defense advisory board for the first three years of the Bush administration - is quoted in January's Vanity Fair as saying the U.S. might have been able to strip Saddam Hussein of his ability to build unconventional weapons "by means other than a direct military intervention." |
by David Rose
Vanity Fair November 3, 2006 As Iraq slips further into chaos, the war's neoconservative boosters have turned sharply on the Bush administration, charging that their grand designs have been undermined by White House incompetence. In a series of exclusive interviews, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman, David Frum, and others play the blame game with shocking frankness. Target No. 1: the president himself.
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