Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: A qualcuno piace la tortura

9:35 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Welcome to the White House on an historic day. It is a
rare occasion when a President can sign a bill he knows will save
American lives. I have that privilege this morning.
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 is one of the most important
pieces of legislation in the war on terror. This bill will allow the
Central Intelligence Agency to continue its program for questioning
key terrorist leaders and operatives like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the
man believed to be the mastermind of the September the 11th, 2001
attacks on our country. This program has been one of the most
successful intelligence efforts in American history. It has helped
prevent attacks on our country. And the bill I sign today will ensure
that we can continue using this vital tool to protect the American
people for years to come. The Military Commissions Act will also allow
us to prosecute captured terrorists for war crimes through a full and
fair trial.
President George W. Bush speaks during the signing of S. 3930, the
Military Commissions Act of 2006, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, in the East
Room. "It is a rare occasion when a President can sign a bill he knows
will save American lives. I have that privilege this morning," said
President Bush. Pictured in the background are, from left, Deputy
Director of National Intelligence Michael Hayden; General Peter Pace,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick
Cheney. White House photo by Paul Morse Last month, on the fifth
anniversary of 9/11, I stood with Americans who lost family members in
New York and Washington and Pennsylvania. I listened to their stories
of loved ones they still miss. I told them America would never forget
their loss. Today I can tell them something else: With the bill I'm
about to sign, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated
the murder of nearly 3,000 innocent people will face justice.
I want to thank the Vice President for joining me today. Mr. Vice
President, appreciate you. Secretary Don Rumsfeld, I appreciate your
service to our country. I want to thank Attorney General Al Gonzales;
General Mike Hayden, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency;
General Pete Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I appreciate very much Senator John Warner, Chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, and Congressman Duncan Hunter, Chairman of
the House Armed Services Committee, for joining us today. I want to
thank both of these men for their leadership. I appreciate Senator
Lindsey Graham, from South Carolina, joining us; Congressman Jim
Sensenbrenner, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; Congressman
Steve Buyer, of Indiana; Congressman Chris Cannon, of Utah. Thank you
all for coming.
The bill I sign today helps secure this country, and it sends a clear
message: This nation is patient and decent and fair, and we will never
back down from the threats to our freedom.
One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks said
he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America. He
didn't get his wish. We are as determined today as we were on the
morning of September the 12th, 2001. We'll meet our obligation to
protect our people, and no matter how long it takes, justice will be
done.
President George W. Bush signs into law S. 3930, the Military
Commissions Act of 2006, during a ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006, in
the East Room of the White House. Joining him on stage, from left are:
Utah Rep. Chris Cannon, Indiana Rep. Steve Buyer, Wisconsin Rep. Jim
Sensenbrenner, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, California Rep.
Duncan Hunter, and Sen. John Warner of Virginia. General Peter Pace,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales are in the background. White House photo by Paul
Morse When I proposed this legislation, I explained that I would have
one test for the bill Congress produced: Will it allow the CIA program
to continue? This bill meets that test. It allows for the clarity our
intelligence professionals need to continue questioning terrorists and
saving lives. This bill provides legal protections that ensure our
military and intelligence personnel will not have to fear lawsuits
filed by terrorists simply for doing their jobs.
This bill spells out specific, recognizable offenses that would be
considered crimes in the handling of detainees so that our men and
women who question captured terrorists can perform their duties to the
fullest extent of the law. And this bill complies with both the spirit
and the letter of our international obligations. As I've said before,
the United States does not torture. It's against our laws and it's
against our values.
By allowing the CIA program to go forward, this bill is preserving a
tool that has saved American lives. The CIA program helped us gain
vital intelligence from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh,
two of the men believed to have helped plan and facilitate the 9/11
attacks. The CIA program helped break up a cell of 17 southeastern
Asian terrorist operatives who were being groomed for attacks inside
the United States. The CIA program helped us uncover key operatives in
al Qaeda's biological weapons program, including a cell developing
anthrax to be used in terrorist attacks.
The CIA program helped us identify terrorists who were sent to case
targets inside the United States, including financial buildings in
major cities on the East Coast. And the CIA program helped us stop the
planned strike on U.S. Marines in Djibouti, a planned attack on the
U.S. consulate in Karachi, and a plot to hijack airplanes and fly them
into Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf in London.
Altogether, information from terrorists in CIA custody has played a
role in the capture or questioning of nearly every senior al Qaeda
member or associate detained by the United States and its allies since
this program began. Put simply, this program has been one of the most
vital tools in our war against the terrorists. It's been invaluable
both to America and our allies. Were it not for this program, our
intelligence community believes that al Qaeda and its allies would
have succeeded in launching another attack against the American
homeland. By allowing our intelligence professionals to continue this
vital program, this bill will save American lives. And I look forward
to signing it into law.
The bill I'm about to sign also provides a way to deliver justice to
the terrorists we have captured. In the months after 9/11, I
authorized a system of military commissions to try foreign terrorists
accused of war crimes. These commissions were similar to those used
for trying enemy combatants in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War
and World War II. Yet the legality of the system I established was
challenged in the court, and the Supreme Court ruled that the military
commissions needed to be explicitly authorized by the United States
Congress.
And so I asked Congress for that authority, and they have provided it.
With the Military Commission Act, the legislative and executive
branches have agreed on a system that meets our national security
needs. These military commissions will provide a fair trial, in which
the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney, and can
hear all the evidence against them. These military commissions are
lawful, they are fair, and they are necessary.
When I sign this bill into law, we will use these commissions to bring
justice to the men believed to have planned the attacks of September
the 11th, 2001. We'll also seek to prosecute those believed
responsible for the attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 American
sailors six years ago last week. We will seek to prosecute an
operative believed to have been involved in the bombings of the
American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 200
innocent people and wounded 5,000 more. With our actions, we will send
a clear message to those who kill Americans: We will find you and we
will bring you to justice.
Over the past few months the debate over this bill has been heated,
and the questions raised can seem complex. Yet, with the distance of
history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation
of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to
defeat that threat? Every member of Congress who voted for this bill
has helped our nation rise to the task that history has given us. Some
voted to support this bill even when the majority of their party voted
the other way. I thank the legislators who brought this bill to my
desk for their conviction, for their vision, and for their resolve.
There is nothing we can do to bring back the men and women lost on
September 11th, 2001. Yet we'll always honor their memory and we will
never forget the way they were taken from us. This nation will call
evil by its name. We will answer brutal murder with patient justice.
Those who kill the innocent will be held to account.
With this bill, America reaffirms our determination to win the war on
terror. The passage of time will not dull our memory or sap our nerve.
We will fight this war with confidence and with clear purpose. We will
protect our country and our people. We will work with our friends and
allies across the world to defend our way of life. We will leave
behind a freer, safer and more peaceful world for those who follow us.
And now, in memory of the victims of September the 11th, it is my
honor to sign the Military Commissions Act of 2006 into law.
(Applause.)
(The bill is signed.)
END 9:47 A.M. EDT
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Ai coglioni come te che se la sognano anche dove non c'e'.
-Stefano

-Stefano
Allora 'ste armi di distruzione di massa?  "Missione compiuta" l'hai
messo al cesso?

"Missione compiuta" l'hai messo al cesso?
Assieme al tuo cervello, che non capiva la differenza tra "Missione
compiuta" e "Abbiamo vinto".
-Stefano

outis wrote:
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Le armi di distruzione di massa le hai poi trovate e dove tele sei
messe?

outis wrote:
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Scusami, non avevo capito che la missione era quella di innescare
un'incontrollabile guerra civile e di far crepare il massimo numero di
persone (americani compresi possibile

messe?
Le ha trovate l'IAEA assieme a tanti altri.  E le hanno messe al posto
del tuo cervello finito nel cesso.  Tanto non si notava la differenza.
-Stefano

civile
Che esiste solo nella tua fantasia, quella che ti porta a fare tante
seghe nella speranza di veder crepare soldati americani.
-Stefano