President Bush to veto torture Bill
US President George W. Bush plans to veto legislation passed by the Senate to bar the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods including waterboarding.
“The President will veto that Bill,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
“The United States needs the ability to interrogate effectively, within the law, captured al-Qaeda terrorists.”
Waterboarding is torture.
The President of the United States of America refuses to outlaw waterboarding.
The United States of America practices legalized torture.
The onetime Democratic vice presidential running mate who became an independent to fend off a liberal challenger in Connecticut stumped for waterboarding in a conference call with reporters late Thursday, saying it wasn’t as bad as burning people with hot coals.
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Lieberman asserted that waterboarding isn’t torture because it leaves no “permanent damage.”
“It is not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies. The person is in no real danger. The impact is psychological,” Lieberman said.
I wonder, where will the US government draw the line? If there’s no “permanent damage” does it make all torture, committed by all governments that practice torture, legal?
Will America continue to believe it legal if their people are tortured by others as long as there is no “permanent damage”?
Nicholas Kristof is right, the Buah administration, and its supporters, have done a bang up job of systematicly discrediting the American reputation around the globe.
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I read an article last night in which Bush recently said waterboarding wasn’t torture and that it delivered valuable intel [even though it’s only been done 3 times, right?]. I can understand a person not caring about torturing terrorists [me], but to say it openly as the leader of the free world… well let me just say…
HOLY EFFING EXPLETIVE DELETED!