The Senate voted 90-9 on Wednesday to back an amendment that would prohibit the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in U.S. government custody, regardless of where they are held. Colin L. Powell and John M. Shalikashvili, former Joint Chiefs Chairmen, backed the bill sponsored by John McCain who declared:
"Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies."
The legislation faces heavy opposition in the House and a threatened veto by the madman in the White House who calls himself the President and who isn’t very different from our enemies. In a time when one can be called a Terrorist and threatened with prosecution for tacking a picture of the Dirtbag in Chief to a bulletin board.
The alcoholic crack-head Quixote from Crawford will be giving a pep rally for his crusade today. Let’s see if he’s still willing to justify torture in God’s name and let’s see if his speech boils down to the same “stay the course” argument Richard Nixon used to lead us to a humiliating defeat in Viet Nam after 15 years of war and the deaths of perhaps a million civilians.
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Stay the course is very manly. Asking for directions is what wives do.
This is why real men have GPS.
I've blogged on the same topic...
If our nut-case of a leader claimed to hear voices other than 'gods' he'd probably have been locked up in a TX prison long ago. But instead, the religous right has made him crazy-n-chief of our country.
How much longer do we have to endure this idiot... I certainly hope it isn't another three full years.
I don't know how someone who claims to be a "values president" can threaten a veto on a bill telling our troops they will be held to the long published standard (the Army Field Manual) when dealing with detainees.
Even if you don't care about our international image you should at least care about sending a clear msg to our troops as to what's acceptable and what is not.
Obviously, he thinks anything you do while you're on a mission from God is acceptable - sort of like Osama does.
i think this is more or less the same amendment added to a budget bill in july. bill frist blocked the vote because of it.
http://phobizone.blogspot.com/2005/07/frists-flip-flop-kitten-torture.html
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