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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 04:28 PM
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"Retired General: mccain, pete king putting American lives at risk"
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"I just got off the phone with retired General Paul Eaton, who is best known for training Iraqi troops during the Bush years, and he offered scathing criticism of John McCain and Pete King for demanding that the Obama administration refrain from Mirandizing the Times Square bomb suspect.

General Eaton bluntly said McCain and King are potentially putting American lives at risk.

Eaton, a political independent who says he’s voted for both Republicans and Democrats, ripped McCain and King’s comments as “wholly inappropriate,” adding that not Mirandizing the suspect risks making it tougher to win a prosecution of him in court.

“I don’t understand how a Senator or a Congressman can challenge the Mirandizing procedure,” Eaton, who is also a senior adviser at the Dem-leaning National Security Network, told me. “The laws are clear. Rep. King and Senator McCain have advocated a position that could cost us this case.”

Eaton added that there’s no way the suspect will ever be tried in a military tribunal, and said that his trial was certain to take place in the civilian court system.

“The offense occured at Times Square,” he said. “It’s not a military venue. He’s an American citizen. The military has no juristiction.”

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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 05:30 PM
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1. All McCain has left is his bitterness over losing.
Thank gawd... I wonder how many wars that miserable SOB would have us involved in by now had the country had the stupidity to elect him.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-04-10 06:19 PM
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2. mccain is a textbook classic
case of the epitome of bitterness allowed to play out to the inth degree on a national stage..and more than a little reminder of how sunk this country would be if mcpalin had somehow oozed in.
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