Senate Proceeding on Nov 5th, 2009 :: 7:38:35 to 7:44:00
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Saxby Chambliss: wants to speak on this. and i thank the chair and would yield the mr. chambliss: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. chambliss: mr. president, i rise in strong support of the graham amendment and i wish to echo the sentiments just expressed by my friend from alabama who, like me, has had extensive experience in trying

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Speech By: Saxby Chambliss

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Saxby Chambliss: cases for many, many you know, we've in this country over our 225-plus years, we've been involved in many different military conflicts. in each of those conflicts dating back to the early years, there have always been prisoners captured and we've always had a

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Saxby Chambliss: procedure whereby we incarcerated and ultimately tried those individuals who were captured on the battlefield. the process of how we operate from an article 3 criminal standpoint relative to criminals in america who commit offenses against the united states of america is one thing. the process that we've always

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Saxby Chambliss: used to deal with those individuals that we capture on the battlefield has been entirely different and all for the right reasons. i know there have been those who have gotten up here over the past several weeks and months as we've talked aut these issues from time to time -- and i've had any number of amendments on this and spoke own the floor numerous times about it -- it's important i think protection and security of the

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Saxby Chambliss: american people to keep all of these individuals that we captured on the battlefield who are incarcerated at guantanamo outside of we've got the mechanics set up to try them. we've got a them to be incarcerated. that's, frankly, where they ought to stay until some meth method can be worked out to deal with them, to have them housed

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Saxby Chambliss: somewhere outside the united states. unfortunately, the president's made a commitment to close guantanamo by january the 22nd without ever having a plan in place deal with. they here what we're talking about doing is making sure -- here what we're talking about doing is making sure that not all of those prisoners, because folks on the other side of the aisle have already said, we want

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Saxby Chambliss: to bring the prisoners from guantanamo to american soil, we want to try them there and ultimately i guess they're saying we want to house them in american prisons. i think that's wrong. this amendment, though, is even narrower than that and that's why it's so important. this amendment says we're going to take the meanest of these

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Saxby Chambliss: individuals who gevery day seeking ways to kill and harm americans, and we're going to -- we want to make sure that they never come to american soil for trial and are never subjected to the processes developed in article 3 courts for average, ordinary criminals that tried every single day in america.

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Saxby Chambliss: you know, khalid sheikh mohammed is the admitted mastermind of september 11. he is one of the individuals who today is housed at guantanamo bay. he is one of the individuals that's going to be directly affected by this amendment. this khalid sheikh mow -- does khalid sheikh mohammed want justice? no.

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Saxby Chambliss: khalid sheikh mohammed wants a platform. he wants a platform on which to -- exude his arrogance and his hatred of america and his hatred of merntionz as exhibited by the plan he -- americans, as exhibited by the plan he put in place to drive planes into the pentagon, the world trade center, and another entity which

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Saxby Chambliss: was probably the united states capil. that airplane ultimately crashed in pennsylvania. you know, there were over 3,000 victims on september the 11th. it's my understanding that family members of those victims have written letters and made phone calls urging the passage of this amendment.

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Saxby Chambliss: they are an indication of the strong feeling that prevails all across america relative to how we deal with these individuals who intended and did, in fact, carry out an attack against america, an atrocious attack, that took

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Saxby Chambliss: the lives of over mr. president, i commend senator graham for even thinking of the idea of narrowing this amendment to include just those individuals who participated in the september 11 attack. i would rather broaden it to include all of those who are housed at guantanamo and i defy anyone t stand up and say that trying any of those individuals

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Saxby Chambliss: who are housed at guantanamo that were battlefield in an recall 3 court in the united sta similar to some o that we've tried in this country. that is wrong. we have never triednybody that was arrested on the battlefield in an article 3 court in the united states. so senator graham amendment is very appropriate. it ought to be passed.

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Saxby Chambliss: it ought to be passed with a large margin and a vote against this is simply a vote to give khalid sheikh mohammed that platform that he wants to have to talk about why he hates america and about everything that's wrong with america. that's not what we ought to be doing in this body today or at any other time.

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Saxby Chambliss: i urge a positive and affirmative vote on the graham