John McCain: Town Hall 6/13/08

John McCain: Town Hall 6/13/088_xv9EKr0u0 Video Clips. Duration : 2.00 Mins.



John McCain Town Hall Pemberton, NJ 06/13/08 TRANSCRIPT: JOHN MCCAIN: "And I've got to mention one more issue with you very quickly, in case you missed it. The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision, which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Senator Gramm and Senator Lieberman and I worked very hard to make sure that we didn't torture any prisoners, that we didn't mistreat them, that we abided by the Geneva Conventions, which is applies to all prisoners, but we also made it perfectly clear, and I won't go through all the legislation we passed, and the prohibition against torture, but we made it very clear that these are enemy combatants. These are people that are not citizens. They do not, and never have been given the rights that citizens of this country have. My friends, there are some bad people out there. Bad people. So now, what are we going to do? We're now going to have the courts flooded with so-called 'habeas corpus suits' against the government, whether it be about the diet, whether it be about the reading material, and we are going to be all mixed up in a way that is terribly unfortunate because we need to go ahead and adjudicate these cases. And by the way, 30 of the people have already been released from Guantanamo Bay have already tried to attack America. One of them, just a couple of weeks ago, a suicide bomber in Iraq. So our first obligation is the safety and security of this nation and the men and ...Geneva Womens Watches Clear

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