The Post Editors Just Don't Get It.

Ending the Lawlessness
President Bush wants congressional action on detainees. That's good -- as long as he doesn't get the bill he wants.

New York Times
Editorial
Thursday, September 7, 2006; Page A26

PRESIDENT BUSH took major steps yesterday toward cleaning up the mess his administration has made of the detention, interrogation and prosecution of those captured in the war on terrorism. In a White House speech, the president announced that all 14 high-value detainees being held in secret CIA facilities abroad had been transferred to military custody at Guantanamo Bay for trial and registered with the International Red Cross. The Pentagon simultaneously released a new directive on detentions and a manual on interrogations that conforms with the Geneva Conventions and that explicitly bans techniques once authorized by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, such as hooding and the use of dogs. More broadly, Mr. Bush asked Congress to approve a legal framework for the trial of terrorist suspects, which would make the nation's response to the threat posed by al-Qaeda the product of democracy rather than secret executive decisions.

Yet as Mr. Bush took these constructive steps, he also undermined them. He delivered a full-throated defense of the CIA's "alternative set of procedures" that the world properly regards as torture. With an election pending and families of Sept. 11 victims as his audience, he demanded legislative action on issues of enormous complexity in the few remaining days of the congressional session. And the bill he sent to Congress would authorize the administration to resume some of the worst excesses of the past five years.

Congress should welcome the invitation to legislate but resist any preelection stampede. It should seriously engage itself with the issues of security, human rights and fundamental American values raised by the president's proposals -- and make sure that torture, illegal detentions and unfair trials will not be the result.

Once more we are granted a glance into the mush that Liberals call brains. First, there was no "lawlessness" except in the MSM's complicity with our enemies and their revelation of national secrets, to the detriment of our war against the Global Islamic Jihad. "Torture, illegal detentions and unfair trials" have never been part of the picture except in the distorted imaginings of the Left. The editorial staff of the Washington Pest still doesn't understand that they and their fellow elitist "journalists" would be among the first to be beheaded under the gentle ministries of the Theocrats of the Global Islamic Jihad. As the President stated yesterday, the treatment that these enemies of freedom have received, while not very pleasant, have been legal under American law and under international law. What that means is that no torture is being conducted.

Liberals can't seem to differentiate between unpleasant treatment and torture. It is similar to their failure to comprehend that enemies of freedom do not and have never negotiated in good faith, never, not once in history. This more than anything else proves the foolishness, if not outright stupidity, of Liberals and Democrats.

Rumsfeld was absolutely correct in calling down those voices of dissent in the press and the Democrat Leadership. They are very reminiscent of the voices of appeasers prior to World War II.

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