GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes.

REPORTER: And yet there are those who would say, look, let’s take Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and rendition and all those things, and to them that is the, you know, the complete opposite of freedom.

GEORGE W. BUSH: Of course if you want to slander America, you can look at it one way. But you go down — what you need to do — I think I suggested you do this at a press conference — if you go down to Guantanamo and take a look at how these prisoners are treated — and they’re working it through our court systems. We are a land of law.

REPORTER: But the Supreme Court have just said that — you know, ruled against what you’ve been doing down there.

GEORGE W. BUSH: But the district court didn’t. And the appellate court didn’t.

REPORTER: The Supreme Court is supreme, isn’t it?

GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept their verdict. I don’t agree with their verdict. And it’s not what I was doing down there. This was a law passed by our United States Congress that I worked with the Congress to get passed and sign into law.

REPORTER: But it looked like an attempt to bypass the Constitution, to a certain extent.

GEORGE W. BUSH: This was a law passed, Adam. We passed a law. Bypassing the Constitution means that we did something outside the bounds of the Constitution. We went to the Congress and got a piece of legislation passed.

REPORTER: Which is now being struck down, I think.

GEORGE W. BUSH: It is, and I accept what the Supreme Court did, and I necessarily don’t have to agree with it.

My only point to you is, is that yes, I mean, we certainly wish Abu Ghraib hadn’t happened, but that should not reflect America. This was the actions of some soldiers.

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Congress cannot go home until ALL the troops come home!!!

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“It is Iraq against the world.” Bush describes Saddam Hussein’s actions in the Persian Gulf as “inhumane aggression.” He demands that Iraq pull out of Kuwait.

September 11th, 1990

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Watch more at http://rethinkafghanistan.com/

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Thanks to your efforts, we were able to bring Rick Reyes, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, to Congress’s attention. A former Corporal in the US Marines, Reyes was powerful and truthful as he told Senator John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “I urge you on behalf of truth and patriotism to consider carefully and rethink Afghanistan. More troops, more occupation is not the answer.”

Reyes’s testimony raises critical concerns that Congress must address before approving a massive supplemental war funding bill in the next few weeks. Let’s work to halt this war funding bill by calling our Representatives, and urging them not to vote for it until all the questions raised in these hearings have been answered. If you’re not sure who represents you, find out here.

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Learn more: http://rethinkafghanistan.com

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Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) stood his ground and joined the twenty-or-so other Republicans that have decided to vote with the House Democrats in favor of a non-binding Iraq resolution that condemns President Bush’s troop surge.

Speaking of Bush, Congressman Paul was very straight-forward in his displeasure for Bush’s “demented philosophy of conquest.” Here is a portion of his floor speech:

RON PAUL: “In recent decades, our policies have been driven by neoconservative empire radicalism; profiteering in the military industrial complex; misplaced do-good internationalism; mercantilistic notions regarding the need to control natural resources; and blind loyalty to various governments in the Middle East.”

You can add Ron Paul’s name to the small list of the few level-headed Republicans left in Congress.

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The life of hundreds of thousands of species, including our own, are threatened with extinction. Our irresponsible use of chemistry and technology, the indiscriminate ballooning of consumption we call the “American Dream” and our refusal to face this unsustainable environmental footprint endanger all life on earth. Our current production methods have created a chemical/nuclear soup that is poisoning our planet and us. Real respect for Life will require our willingness to face the limits we must place on our economic system and our consumption and our population in order to take responsibility.

I believe we can change our direction in international affairs. We can move away from a course that is guided by American exceptionalism and the idea we can unilaterally determine how the rest of the world will act. This unwise course operates on the racism we are trying to erase from our own social system. International Rule of Law and respect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must be the path we choose to a sustainable and rewarding future. By “rewarding” I do not mean huge profits for the few. I do not mean a life that defines itself in terms of superior quantities of toys and labor saving devices.

As a Green Party candidate I pledge to vote for a single payer health care plan for all Americans. Every citizen’s life deserves the respect of health care since all are exposed to the increased risks from industrial life.

Respect for Life means: re-empowering the Environmental Protection Agency to protect our water, air and food, insuring everyone a real job opportunity at a living wage. Respect for life by definition is respect for diversity. It means insuring that agriculture does not reduce the vast gene pools with monocultures. It means equal protection of all laws concerning long-term commitments, not just hetero-sexuals. It means respecting the life of all humans on the planet — not just Americans. We must work through the United Nations to guarantee everyone protection of international law, helping enforce UN resolutions with regard to all countries. Republicans want to eliminate the United Nations and the international law it represents. Respect for Life means ending international arms sales, working to eliminate all nuclear weapons — not just “theirs”. (Colorado Republicans voted consistently to build new nukes over the past several years undermining our commitment to the Non Proliferation Treaty).

Help me to give these policies a voice in Congress. Register Green. Endorse this campaign. Pledge some time and money. This is a year when sufficient numbers of people could move to a new and vital Party and work through it for a positive future!!! Don’t buy the self fulfilling prophesy that a third party vote is wasted. We just might win!

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