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Bush Doesn't Support Our TroopsThe Bush Administration has repeatedly shown a disregard for the rule of law. Don't believe me? Would you believe some of the nation's top military lawyers? Unlike four years ago, when the Bush administration formulated its plans for military commissions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the debate now seems certain to include the views of the military’s most senior uniformed lawyers, whose objections were brushed aside earlier. John D. Hutson, a retired rear admiral who was the top uniformed lawyer in the Navy until 2000, is one of a number of retired senior military lawyers who have filed briefs challenging the administration’s legal approach. Beginning shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the military lawyers warned that the administration’s plan for military commissions put the United States on the wrong side of the law and breached international standards. Most important, they warned, the plan could endanger members of the American military who might someday be captured by an enemy and treated the way detainees at Guantánamo have been. Full story here. (Again, Democrats are morons not to have long ago framed this issue as "Bush is making it easier for our soldiers to be tortured.") |