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October 08, 2005
Can we all agree that Bush favors torture?
The Senate this week passed John McCain's Senate Amendment 1977 containing language enforcing anti-torture rules duplicated from standard military code (the bill here). This is a decades-old standard has now been officially endorsed by the Senate... by a 90-9 vote.
Here's the senators who voted against the bill -- the senators who are supporting torture:
Allard (R-CO)
Bond (R-MO)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stevens (R-AK)
Add to that your president, George W. Bush, who has threatened to veto the bill if it includes the McCain amendment. Bush hasn't vetoed a single bill -- ever. So the president of the United States is now in the business of endorsing cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees. Isn't this one of the reasons we ousted Saddam? Didn't the president on Thursday blast evildoers for doing the same thing?
We can only hope that Congress will override this veto -- for the good of us all. The only thing Bush is accomplishing is the spawning of millions of future terrorists. Shame on him!
Posted By Bob Cesca | October 8, 2005 09:34 AM | DIGG ME!
Comments
Torture is a waste of time and is an emotionally unbalanced way to behave. To get caught at torture is to share elements of Ted Bundy's personality publicly. Enjoyment in pain. Enjoyment in power.
Posted by: DP Kramer at October 10, 2005 11:50 PM
Give it up, Cesca, you stink.
Posted by: disenlightened at October 11, 2005 12:28 AM
Disenlightened, are you serious? Do you endorse torture?
Posted by: Plummer at October 11, 2005 06:03 PM
Some consider sleep depravation as torture, yet by itself causes no physiological harm. As awful as lack of sleep may feel, a good nights sleep and you are right as rain. Sleep depravation can be quite effective against non-hardened persons. If you are sure of your subject, depriving a person of sleep to obtain information more critical than that persons discomfort, is not necessarily a display of enjoyment of pain or power. If you are emotionally balanced in the application than no one needs to be tortured.
Posted by: DP Kramer at October 12, 2005 06:23 PM
