One word about this administration crazed.

Why do they think they need to change the law if they aren't doing anything wrong?

Why do they think they need to change the law, if they aren't doing anything wrong?

Boyhowdy, there's a pattern here. Every time the administration gets close to being hauled into court, they call their rubber-stamp buddies on Capitol Hill to change the laws. These would be the same rubber-stamp buddies that change the ethics and lobbying laws in their favor every time they get close to hauled into court for criminal activity. Presto, voilà! What was a hanging offense yesterday is cause for a Medal of Freedom tomorrow.

Is there any wonder that Americans are angry at the double standard.

This does not surpise me. This is just like any upper management. They can change the laws of the company anytime they want to when they want it to support there actions. And the government is no different then any company I have worked for.

These amendments can't be allowed to pass. It would destroy any last shred of credibility we might possibly have with the rest of the world, and put us on the same level as terrorists.
Impeach Bush! Try him for war crimes! Lying to start a war has to be in there somewhere!
MAKE LEAVENWORTH KANSAS THE WEST WING!!!

The war crimes that have and are being committed by the US military in Iraq significantly undermines the US credibility as a country dedicated to world peace.

The core problem is a complete lack of understanding of the Iraqi culture and values, which are centered in Islam.

Even under Saddam, you did not hear of a 14 year old Iraqi girl being raped , killed, and then having her entire family murdered to cover it up.

It is documented by the US military that we have sexually abused, sexually tortured, sexually maimed detainees for information.

This in a middle eastern country where it is socially unacceptable for men and women to hold hands in public.

The shock and awe campaign was, more truthfully, a destruction and fear-for-your-lives-if-you-dont-succumb campaign. Iraq is a wasteland due mostly to the extensive bombing that our planes did during the invasion.

I find it useful to put myself in another's shoes to understand a situation completely. Our govt declared that Saddam was a dictator. Well, many around the world are now declaring that Bush is a dictator. What if the military leader of another country declared to the world that Bush must be stopped through force. Suddenly, bombs start falling on our major cities on a daily basis for three weeks until many of our buildings are leveled. Then after bombing, tanks come and soldiers by the tens of thousands, ordering everyone around and taking over the White House and surrounding areas. Even our women are detained and sexually abused while in custody--the stories coming out of the jails makes our hair stand on end. Who are these perverted invaders who say they want freedom for us?

Do you think Iraqi people will ever accept the United States as a country whose moral ideas should be followed and adopted? America is arguably the least moral country in terms of sex as far as world opinion goes. Worldwide, only Peru tops the US in the number of sexual assaults/rapes per year.

It is no surprise that Bush is trying to change international law on war crimes because the red ink is all over the wall. He will fail on this mission, and one day will be brought to Hague, along with Rice, Rumsfeld, and Cheney for being ultimately responsible for disgusting, perverted sex crimes against the Iraqi people.

I am so ashamed that my tax dollars are supporting this brutal campaign, and pray every day for something to change.

This is so un-Godful that I cannot even conceive of a comment. Except that I am deeply ashamed of people who would propose something like this. The current administration is determined to through our country back into the dark ages. Maybe that's not unexpected since they seem bent on bringing back the Crusades.

"Many around the world are declaring that Bush is a dictator."
Like this is news?
Bush is a wannabe third-world dictator, and he is trying to change this formerly first-world nation into a third-world country in the process. This is becoming painfully obvious to the majority of the American people.
As for our military, they are tired, suffering from PTSD from the last rotation, while being shipped back over there for a war that fewer and fewer believe in. They are being badly lead by generals who were picked by the Bushies not because of their leadership, ethics, or intelligence (the Bushies fired those generals), but because they are but-kissing yes-men. The change in the command climate in the American military since 2000 is mind-boggling. They are cheated out of pay raises they deserve, being told to shut up about problems because it is disloyal to question their leaders, especially Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, and given shoddy equipment, which is poorly maintained by uncaring war-profiteering contractors. To top off the whole mess, they are being told that the Geneva Convention doesn't apply.
This administration is the most poisonous, most virulently anti-populist, and the most cynical of any so far.
We need to impeach these bastards and make an example of them.
We need to clean up this mess and re-establish our credibility with the rest of the world.
We need to get enough true Democrats into Congress so we can make all this happen.