Cheney can gut anything!
You may have thought that Vice President Cheney and his right-wing friends only gutted social legislation. Not the case. While traditionally they have only used their "great name, no substance" legislative strategy to pretend to solve Americans' problems (like annoucing a great Prescription Drug Bill that does little to get folks prescription drugs, while doing a lot to line insurance companies pockets), now Cheney is proposing to make sure our proposed anti-torture bill doesn't actually stop any torture. If you exempt all non-DOD personnel, operations overseas, and anti-terrorist operations, exactly what torture will the bill purport to stop? Doesn't the Bush Administration define pretty much EVERYTHING we do overseas, including the Iraq War, as anti-terrorist operations? Is the "Anti-Torture Bill" really going to be only the "Turn the Reigns of Torture Over To Non-Soldiers Bill"? Great, soldiers cannot torture, but CIA, NSA, State Consular Operations, etc., etc. can go right ahead.
Does Cheney have no shame? No conscience?
posted by Pete @ 10/25/2005 12:38:00 PM
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The sick part is reading how Cheney has attempted now three times to convince McCain, the principal sponsor, that these exemptions are a good idea. McCain is one of the most outspoken critics of U.S. torture policies, and himself a victim of inhumane and unspeakable abuse while a P.O.W. in North Vietnam.
They just come off as an evil, conniving, lying, jingoistic, scary bunch... don't they? It's not even surprising or notable anymore. What with Delay, Rove, et. al. under various forms of subpoena, arrest, and investigation.
Its almost comical - Dick Cheney trying to convince John McCain that this bill should be amended in this way. I would love to have been a witness to that conversation. You know, the president already vetoed this bill once. So, McCain stuck it on a spending bill to fund the war in Iraq so it would have to be passed. I love that guy!
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