More on Torture
"in a 45-minute meeting last Thursday, Vice President Dick Cheney and the C.I.A. director, Porter J. Goss, urged Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican who wrote the amendment, to support an exemption for the agency, arguing that the president needed maximum flexibility in dealing with the global war on terrorism"
The amendment they are talking about was attached to a $400 billion military spending bill by the Senate. The Senate-- hey, hey!-- voted 90-9 in favor of this amendment. The amendment bars the U.S. from the use of "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of any detainee.
That's all. The least you would expect, you would think, from a Christian nation. But we are not a Christian nation. We countenance a president and vice-president who beg Congress to please, oh please, please, please, please, don't stop us from using "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" treatment in the war against terror...
Because, how else will we know if we're better than them?
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