what did Bush think was going to happen?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/ap_on_go_pr_wh/guantanamo_detainees
I mean what in the world made him think that any person in US custody would be denied process.?..I hesitate to say due process...but at least humanity...Has he been living in a different America than I have for the last 50+ years?...Or is it me and that to actually expect the government to at least prove to America that these men are indeed bad is Communism or something...It's not i want to coddle terrorist, but WHAT IF some of them are actually innocent....No one is above the law

Answer 1

He thought his administration would be out of office before the crap hit the fan. Unfortunately for our president and those around him, the democrats have been making things a bit more difficult than they expected, the economy falling apart also isn't helping. This indefinite holding of people with no trials rubs most Americans the wrong way, even some republicans. It's just wrong, morally wrong. From the party that claims to have a lock on morals.

Answer 2

It's quite appalling that a sitting US President would ever dare to do something this totalitarian is beyond me, but then again, we are talking about George W. Bush, who has to be nearly the stupidest President we've ever had. Or maybe we can talk about Dick "I'm not a part of the Executive or Legislative Branch" Cheney and how the man thinks he's above the law.



No, they were under the mistaken impression that, because we are at "war", a dubious description of what we are doing in Iraq, they can do what they damn well please. It's not true, and no one is above the law.



Ask Nixon if he thought he was above the law when he tried to cover up the Watergate scandal and lie to the law. He went bye-bye. At least he had the decency to leave office. Well, he got out before he was impeached and convicted and removed from office in disgrace. But at least he did that. Bush would never do that. He's too self-important and too self-absorbed at being a "leader", which is complete bollocks.

Answer 3

For the past 50 years, America have been leading the 'free world" against dictatorship, tyranny and terrorism but it seems now that the Bush admin. is doing the same things if not worse than any of the other nations that were branded as evil. Surely if Bush had known what was going to happen, we would not be in this predication.

Answer 4

Bush doesn't think he is required to obey the law, and that belief has apparently been reinforced by Dick Cheney over these past bad years. Their feeling is that they can slam people in jail permanently without trial and no one will object. After all, these people have dark skin and can't speak English, so who cares ?? From what I've been able to gather, most of them are innocent, just got accused by former friends who sought revenge for whatever wrongs. But some are guilty and dangerous. But, after all this time, with torture and waterboarding, they still don't know which ones.

Its the story of Republican government. Vast disarray and total confusion.

Answer 5

Bush is an oil criminal and a bully. I greatly doubt he ever thought people would ever see throgh him much less remind the administration that a 12th Century document called the Magna Charta would still apply today- and a conservative USSC would ever reinstate habeas corpus.



But then Bush never had much respect for the Constitution, did he?

Answer 6

This is not the America our Founding Fathers would have recognized. Bush, Cheney, and their henchmen have so empowered the executive branch that they honestly believe they are not responsible to any other branches of government. This administration has perpetrated egregious crimes of humanity, have blatantly subverted the U.S. Constitution, and someday they will be held accountable.

Answer 7

Due process is the pillar of Western Society. We ignore it at our own peril. I bet some of the people that were rounded up are innocent, just as some of them are guilty.

Answer 8

He thought he was going to win the war fast and not be bothered by petty details like having to try detainees.

Answer 9

No one is above the law but Dick & W with a little Rum & Rove thrown in.

Answer 10

Well - here come the thumbs down..........

I personally believe that before a person is deemed to deserve human rights, he must first act like a human and not like a deranged, religious, fanatical murderer.

It is indeed admirable to want to take the high ground - but not when it is only to the benefit of the enemy and turned against us.

Humanity must retain some of its self-evident meanings - and the definition won't include slaughtering thousands of innocent men, women and children to try and further an ideology of hatred and domination.

Answer 11

I think they're trying to rewrite the case for prosecutors, make it easier to prosecute, without having to break the law....

Answer 12

The words Bush and think should not be used in the same sentence.

Answer 13

Really? In 50 years you never heard that prisoners of war don't have access to the civilian courts?



This is the first time in our history, and perhaps in the history of the world that battlefield prisoners will have their detention reviewed by the federal court system.

Answer 14

Bush doesn't think - and that's been the problem for the past eight years.

Answer 15

if you mean the detainees, they are considered as saboteurs because they are in complete violation of the statutes of the Geneva Convention. They should be charged as such by the military tribunal much what like Nuremberg and Tokyo. As far as I am concerned they should have been executed on the spot as saboteurs for not wearing combatant uniform.

Answer 16

NoeCons and Cons are remarkably quiet on this one....



What gives?

Answer 17

gwb is above the law, or at least he thinks(?) he is.

Answer 18

That would not be possible if just ,decently feed ,decently clothed,then decently shot!!!