I especially like the part about the # 3 at the Pentagon: Douglas Feith

I especially like the part about the # 3 at the Pentagon. Newsweek/msnbc.com "And Now a Mole" Sept 6." Franklin was known to be one of a tightly knit group of pro-Israel hawks in the Pentagon associated with his immediate superior, William Luti, the hard-charging and impassioned protegé of former House speaker Newt Gingrich. As deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Near East affairs, Luti was a key player in planning the Iraq war. He, in turn, works in the office of Under Secretary Douglas Feith, a career lawyer who, before becoming the Pentagon's No. 3, was a sometime consultant for Likud, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's political party. Officials say they have no evidence that either Feith or Luti had any knowledge of Franklin's discussions with the Israelis."

Maybe "we're" dying to protect their "Zionist Squatters." And at the same time screwing up our old relations with those who supplied our oil in past wars and peace time. Did the Zionists maneuver in to the position we're in today to fight their big wars for Middle East control?

The # 3 at the Pentagon being a Political Consultant for Sharon is a little much. As you cannot serve two masters, Is he a fiduciary for of our troops in the Field, or the Zionist dreams? The magazine also said Franklin was posted at the U.S. Embassy in. Tel Aviv. There are also reports he made visits back to spy land. If we we're smart we would have liberated both Iraq and Palestine, and our troops would have received flowers.

Thank You,

Ronald Douglas Kennedy, USA.

The military tribunals in Guantanamo''

Dear Editor,

The recently started military tribunals at the American military basis in Guantanamo to persecute non-American citizens, who are accused of terrorism, are contrarily as well with the American military legislation as it is to the international judicial standards concerning a fair and independent trial.

In the first place, the distinction between American and non-American citizens is not only discriminative, but also implies in practice lower process-standards for non-American citizens.

In the second place, a military lawyer is appointed for the defence and although the suspect has the right to choose a civilian lawyer, due to the high costs at the expense of the suspect, in the practice this implies a serious restriction on his right to choose his own lawyer.

In the third place, the military authorities have the right to monitor private conversations between the lawyer and his client, which is a serious violation of the internationally acknowledged right on confidentiality between lawyer and client.

In the fourth place, the suspect can be denied to have access to the complete evidence, which is a denial of his basic right to confront the evidence used against him. But the most alarming is the fact that in contrary with the American military legislation, the suspect has no right to appeal to a civilian court, but only to the American Secretary of Defense, which is a flagrant violation of the right on independent jurisdiction.

It is therefore of the most importance that the American authorities apply the basic principles of the international judicial standards concerning a fair and independent trial.

Astrid Essed

astridessed@hotmail.com

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Bush is a Repudiation of the Real American Right: Dump Him

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