GOP Detainee Bill- Turning Back the Clock on Rape

[deacon]

In recent decades, women’s advocates and human rights activists have made huge progress on the issues of rape and sexual assault — in the United States and globally. Both crimes are now more powerfully defined in state and federal laws. In international law, where rape and sexual assault have long been classified as torture and war crimes, the world has begun to accept the importance of enforcement.

You’d think this was a settled issue. But it’s been opened up again in the bill on jailing, interrogating and trying terror suspects that President Bush is trying to ram through Congress in a pre-election rush. Both the White House and Senate versions contain provisions on rape and sexual assault that turn back the clock alarmingly. They are among the many flaws that must be fixed before Congress can responsibly pass this legislation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/23/opinion/23sat1.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[izzie]

1. My God this man in the WH is mad.

We will be in sheets with eye holes cut out next.

[flamingpie2500]

2. does it mention oral sex? how about forced sex between detainees?

would a broom handle count as "physical contact"?
The list could be endless. The ONLY thing they want to accomplish with this bill is to exhonorate themselves from past crimes.

How do these people sleep at night?

[annabanana]

3. ...." Congress can responsibly pass this legislation."

I don't care how they tinker with it, NYT, Congress can NEVER "responsibly pass this legislation"..

(damn "librul" media)