Umm... We'll get back to you on that one...
Via statements made earlier this month in Panama, the prez made it very clear: "We Do Not Torture". I guess he didn't get the memo:
Not only is torture inhumane, but it generally doesn't work. Ask McCain himself, he knows firsthand.
Why do they have to attach things like this to other bills? Can't they vote separately for a spending bill and a no-torture bill? It should be "one issue, one vote".
The US Senate voted 90-9 early last month to attach an amendment authored by Republican Senator John McCain to a defense spending bill that would prohibit "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment of detainees in US custody. But the White House has threatened to veto the measure and has lobbied senators to have the language removed or modified to allow an exemption for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Not only is torture inhumane, but it generally doesn't work. Ask McCain himself, he knows firsthand.
Why do they have to attach things like this to other bills? Can't they vote separately for a spending bill and a no-torture bill? It should be "one issue, one vote".
posted by Sphaeron at
9:26 PM
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