BUSH WANTS TO GUT GENEVA CONVENTIONS...

GOP VETERANS, COLIN POWELL SAY NO WAY....

NY Times CARL HULSE September 14, 2006 at 09:41 PM
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President Bush and Congressional Republicans spent the last 10 days laying the foundation for a titanic pre-election struggle over national security, and now they have one. But the fight playing out this week on Capitol Hill is not what they had in mind.

Instead of drawing contrasts with Democrats, the president's call for creating military tribunals to try terror suspects -- a key substantive and political component of his fall agenda -- has erupted into a remarkably intense clash pitting some of the best-known warriors in the Republican Party against Mr. Bush and the Congressional leadership.

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