Senate Republicans protect terrorists

Not really, but it's what George Bush would say, and after 6 years of listening to his moronic pronouncements on issues he can't possibly understand, it's fun to turn his idiotic assertions on his own party once in a while.

Now that that's out of the way, this is important. For five years this administration has poo-poo'd laws, both international and domestic, that are in place to protect us from harm by others. They are not in place to protect furners, they're in place to protect our soldiers and our citizens.

Case in point, the Geneva Conventions. We didn't sign them because we're nice guys. We signed them because we don't want other people abusing OUR troops. Same logic applies to why we let foreign diplomats do bad things in America yet still don't charge them with a crime. We don't want bad governments to trump up charges against OUR diplomats.

But all of that is far too complicated of logic for a president who is an idiot. If you're simple-minded, it's understandable that you can't quite fathom why we'd want to let suspected terrorists have rights so that our troops and citizens are offered their rights in return.

And a word about suspected terrorists. The operative word there is suspected. In America, you're innocent until proven guilty - something that Republicans don't like much. Or rather, they like to demean the concept for partisan reasons - it's good fodder to attack "criminals" and the Democrats who defend them. Or in the case of George Bush, he doesn't believe in protecting the rights of possible criminals because he's simply too stupid to understand why such rights exist in the first place.

Again, we believe in the concept of innocent until proven guilty NOT to protect murderers, but to protect the rest of us innocents when we're accused of being murderers falsely.

It's a concept Bush, and far too many Republicans can't understand, either because they're simply too dim, or worse, because they don't really believe in democracy, or America. George Bush Republicans believe that the state knows all and knows best, and if a government official wants to charge you with a crime, or even investigate you for a crime, that government official can do whatever it wants, to hell with the law. You have no rights as a suspect because government knows best.

That's what the military tribunal debate is really about. It's about whether we think US troops deserve to be treated like human beings when they're captured by the enemy.

The sickest part of all. It's entirely possible that George Bush actually understands the reason we have such laws in place IS to protect our own troops. The reality is, he simply may not care.