If any of these three legs snaps, the stool tips over and America is unprepared to defend herself.
He didn't mind that she didn't have a lawyer to defend herself, or that she didn't understand what "stoning" meant.
The earlier session was adjourned after the panel heard she was "suicidal", unfit to defend herself and had left the country.
The President made the right first step in this direction with his declaration last Saturday that Israel has a right to defend herself.
"Israel has a right to defend herself but I'll reiterate it's important to keep in mind the consequences of the actions they take, " McClellan said.
Botha agreed with the defense contention that, other than the bullet wounds, her body showed no sign of an assault or efforts to defend herself.
But once you consider the details, there's not a huge change, mostly because the resolution he's talking about still gives Israel the right to defend herself, and the president today said Israel is basically free to keep forces in southern Lebanon until a second resolution is passed and until an international force goes in.
And so the answer to your question is when our generals on the ground and Ambassador Negroponte tells me that Iraq is ready to defend herself from these terrorists, that elections will have been held by then, that there's stability, and that they're on their way to, you know, a nation of of that's free, that's when.
Shortly after her sentencing, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to Tehran's prosecutor calling for the appeals court to ensure justice and allow Saberi to "freely and legally defend" herself.
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He said there was usually no point trying dead people because trials are about punishment and involve a process of interaction with the accused, including the accused's ability to defend him- or herself.
Rather than attack Hamas and Fatah in international forums and so defend Ashkelon's schoolchildren at least diplomatically, Livni devotes herself to attacking Prime Minister-designate Binyamin Netanyahu for refusing to back Palestinian statehood.
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