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Thu Jun-28-07 07:46 AM
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Yippy. Good for them.
W. Learns From Students
By MAUREEN DOWD, WASHINGTON Wednesday, June 27, 2007
A group of high school Presidential Scholars visiting the White House on Monday surprised President Bush by slipping him a handwritten letter pleading with him to not let America become known for torture and urging him to stick to the Geneva Conventions with terror detainees.
The president reassured the teenagers that the United States does not torture..................
Since it’s rare that Mr. Bush ever sees groups that have not been prescreened to be nice to him, he made the mistake of opening the letter in front of the students and was surprised to learn that he has made many Americans ashamed by subverting values that the country has always held dear, like abiding by the Constitution and respecting human dignity.
Mari Oye from Wellesley, Mass., who is headed to Yale in the fall, handed W. the letter signed by 50 students as they posed for a group picture. She told John Roberts on CNN that her mother had been a Presidential Scholar back in 1968 and always regretted not saying something to Lyndon Johnson about the Vietnam War. She also said her grandparents were Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II, so she has compassion for those “in a similar situation.”
“We asked him to remove the signing statement attached to the anti-torture bill, which would have allowed presidential power to make exemptions to the ban on torture,” she said. “I really feel strongly about this issue and also about the treatment of some Arab- and Muslim-Americans after September 11th.” ...................
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Thu Jun-28-07 07:49 AM
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1. Sorry, but dubya doesn't learn shit from anybody. n/t |
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Thu Jun-28-07 07:58 AM
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Thu Jun-28-07 07:59 AM
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3. When they give him the shot that turns him off at night, he forgets everything from the day before. |
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Thu Jun-28-07 08:08 AM
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4. Those kids will have a hard time gettig home by airline |
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now that they'll be on the "terrorist" watch list.
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Thu Jun-28-07 04:14 PM
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5. Link to full article at freedemocracy... |
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Thu Jun-28-07 04:24 PM
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6. Good job youngsters... |
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They'll be our future until they get sucked into our consumeristic ratrace, then they'll continue the march of turning this nation into a giant strip mall that provides everything you want, but nothing you need.
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