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Presidential Scholars Urge Bush to End Torture

by Feminist Majority (reposted)
Friday, July 6, 2007 : Two women presidential scholars involved in the drafting and delivery of a letter to President Bush urging him to end US-sanctioned torture spoke about the experience recently with Amy Goodman on her Democracy Now! radio program.
Mari Oye, the granddaughter of Japanese-Americans who were detained by the US during World War II, and Leah Anthony Libresco both agreed that they couldn't let the opportunity to meet President Bush -- which is one of the privileges for the elite high school graduates who receive the federal honor -- pass by without making a statement. “I really felt I could not just go down and smile for the camera and not say anything,” Oye told the Boston Globe.

Six scholars spearheaded the effort, writing the letter and collecting signatures from 50 of the 136 scholars before their meeting with the President. The letter read, “As members of the Presidential Scholars class of 2007, we have been told that we represent the best and brightest of our nation. Therefore, we believe we have a responsibility to voice our convictions. We do not want America to represent torture. We urge you to do all in your power to stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants.”

Oye handed Bush the letter, which he read after the photo shoot. His only reply was, “We agree. America doesn’t torture people,” according to Oye, the Globe reports. To that, Oye asked him to remove his signing statement that permits illegal renditions from the McCain anti-torture bill.

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by Neville Ross (solex10 [at] hotmail.com)
Way to go ladies, you gave Dubya a letter protesting his policies (scarcasm). If you two dolts had [i]any[/i] sense at all, you'd realize that The Chimp dosen't give a @#$& about you, or about the standing of your nation; he only cares about himself, and what he wants to do! With that in mimd, it's time for you to stop being so trusting and to start protesting this mother@#!%*& and his destructive policies. The very idea of Bush even hosting young people of your academic skill and achievement makes me vomit; Bush is, I suspect, a dyslexsic with cognative deficits brought on by years of substance abuse who was barely able to complete high school and college at Andover & Yale as mentioned by Kitty Kelly in her book [i[The Family[/i]. The only reason he was even able to complete Yale in itself was because Andover was an academically hard private school that made Yale easy-the counterpart to the 'lesiure land' effect in Japan somewhat. And even then, all he was able to accomplish at Yale was a 'C' average (how he was able to survive his ANG training and go to Harvard Business School afterwards abusing substances is a story in itself!) Bush isn't even worthy of washing your feet when you come into his house, yet you genuflect to him by thinking that he's worthy enough to be given a letter telling his to stop what he's doing. How clueless can you get and be? Don't waste time writing to these fracktards in the White House: [i]get off of your narrow little asses and start protesting. HARD![/i] It's the only way to save America.
by Neville Ross (solex10 [at] hotmail.com)
Way to go ladies, you gave Dubya a letter protesting his policies (scarcasm). If you two dolts had any sense at all, you'd realize that The Chimp dosen't give a @#$& about you, or about the standing of your nation; he only cares about himself, and what he wants to do! With that in mimd, it's time for you to stop being so trusting and to start protesting this mother@#!%*& and his destructive policies. The very idea of Bush even hosting young people of your academic skill and achievement makes me vomit; Bush is, I suspect, a dyslexsic with cognative deficits brought on by years of substance abuse who was barely able to complete high school and college at Andover & Yale as mentioned by Kitty Kelly in her book The Family. The only reason he was even able to complete Yale in itself was because Andover was an academically hard private school that made Yale easy-the counterpart to the 'lesiure land' effect in Japan somewhat. And even then, all he was able to accomplish at Yale was a 'C' average (how he was able to survive his ANG training and go to Harvard Business School afterwards abusing substances is a story in itself!) Bush isn't even worthy of washing your feet when you come into his house, yet you genuflect to him by thinking that he's worthy enough to be given a letter telling his to stop what he's doing. How clueless can you get and be? Don't waste time writing to these fracktards in the White House: get off of your narrow little asses and start protesting. HARD! It's the only way to save America.
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