Reply #67: Bush wants 'clarity' on interrogations

[DoYouEverWonder]

Sept. 15, 2006

WASHINGTON - Facing a GOP revolt in the Senate, President Bush urged Congress on Friday to join in backing legislation to spell out strategies for interrogating and trying terror suspects, saying "the enemy wants to attack us again."

"Time is running out," Bush said in a Rose Garden news conference. "Congress needs to act wisely and promptly."

Bush denied the U.S. might lose the moral high ground in the war on terror in the eyes of world opinion, as former Secretary of State
Colin Powell suggested.

"It's unacceptable to think there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective," said Bush, growing animated as he spoke.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

Bush is setting up his defense for future war crimes charges. He's going to claim the law wasn't clear, it was open to interpretation. He had no choice, it was wartime.... That's what this was all about today and why he kept repeating it.