Kudos to republican Senators John McCain, of Arizona and a subject of torture; Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina and a veteran; all democratic senators, and all republican senators except the following nine for sponsoring and voting for an appropriations bill amendment prohibiting torture by U. S. government employees in all cases.
At the urging of the Bush administration, as represented by Arch-angel Cheney, the following senators have indicated through their votes, that the CIA, the proprietor of secret gulags and torture chambers, should be exempt from the torture ban.
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)
It is bad enough that the congress must pass legislation instructing the Bush administration to observe the Geneva Convention, to which the U. S. is a signatory, because we have a bunch of criminals populating the administration; but to have nine senators vote against the ban is sad commentary indeed.
Congratulations Oklahoma for being the only state with both of its senators favoring torture. (OK senator Coburn, by the way, is on the record as favoring execution for doctors who perform abortions.) Oh, and congratulations to those who voted to reelect president Cheney and his stooge George Bush.
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I think McCain is sitting home every night still sticking pins into his Bush straw doll. He just has to love what is happening to the Bush crowd. He now needs to feel his oats - forget politics - and stick it to Bush. For obvious reasons McCain's feelings are very strong on this issue, perhaps he will .......get even.
NL
I think you're probably right about McCain sticking pins in his Bush doll, within the privacy of his home. However, I think McCain wants to run again for president; and has, thus, failed to do any public sticking for fear of alienating the "base". I lost a lot of respect for McCain when he took his royal Rovian 2000 South Carolina primary screw job sitting down. Rove and Bush smeared McCain's family, not just him; and he hardly said a word.
Bush's response to the McCain lying smear, expressed a few years later was "Heh, heh. It's just politics."
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