I mean, duuuhhh, Mr. President. Human rights wut?
Bush is dumb. He is going to veto legislation that would bar the CIA from using waterboarding, sensory deprivation, and other harsh interrogation methods; practices that have already been banned by the military.
Note I didn't say mean. (Even though, waterboarding? Kind of mean. Just a little. Oh, and also? A crime under international lawThis ( Read more... )
Note I didn't say mean. (Even though, waterboarding? Kind of mean. Just a little. Oh, and also? A crime under international lawThis ( Read more... )
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But you know what, it's not about President Bush. Bush is a relic who will be pushed out of office soon. It's about the new Presidential candidate, John McCain--and the gradual selling-out-ification of John McCain, a man I used to have a great deal of respect for.
In 2005, I was delighted to hear that Senator McCain's efforts pressured the Pentagon to stop the practice of "ghost detainees." After Abu Gharib was outed, McCain introduced a bill to affirm the absolute ban on "cruel, inhumane and degrading" treatment by U.S. agents anywhere in the world--a bill that Bush threatened to veto, too! (deja vu?) Bush eventually accepted McCain's anti-torture bill despite protests from Vice President Cheney.Back then Senator McCain--himself a victim of torture as a Prisoner-of-War at the hands of the VietCong--was one of the few voices of reason in the Republican majority Congress who could actually successfully appeal to Bush. To me, he was admirable because he was willing to go ( ... )
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