Looks like the Senate voted to outlaw waterboarding and any other interrogation techniques that work. Now They will demand that interrogators say “pretty please” until they get full compliance, or even more likely, they just give up and send the bad guy on his merry way.
Who will they blame the next time we are attacked?
The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.
Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill, but several of them also did not want to cast a vote that could be construed as supporting torture (pussies one and all), and so were relying on President Bush to make good on a threat to veto legislation limiting C.I.A. interrogation techniques.
The prohibition of harsh interrogation techniques is part of a wider intelligence authorization bill and would restrict all American interrogators to techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual, which bars the use of physical force.The House approved the bill in December by a vote of 222 to 199, mostly along party lines. Wednesday’s vote in the Senate was also along party lines. All the “no” votes were cast by Republicans, except for those of Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska. Five Republicans and Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, voted “yes.”
But the White House has long said Mr. Bush will veto the bill, saying it “would prevent the president from taking the lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack in wartime.”
McCain showed up and voted against tying the hands of our interrogators, good for him.
Obama and Hillary? They were too busy to show up and vote. You have any guess why they wouldn’t want to be on record?
Cough….
Not long after the vote the libs were whining about McCain vote, which should shock no one. But what is actually kind of surprising is that he did vote no on this thing. Did he do it because he knew Bush would veto it?
I guess when it comes time to vote on that veto we will find out.
But what gets me in this whole thing is that waterboarding worked. It didn’t physically harm the person, it psychological made them feel like they were gonna drown, but after they were done they walked away from it with no physical damage done.
And it worked.
KSM gave up a ton of information against al-Qaeda which would never had known otherwise. It helped prevent attacks in this war against terror so…..lets just take it away. No physical violence needed, no breaking of fingers or electrocution. No gouging out of eyes or burning the skin. None of that.
What in the hell do these people think will work against the worst of the worst? Serving some krispy kreme doughtnuts? Or maybe Starbucks….woops, already tried.
Only going to get worse people if Hillary/Obama is elected. Only going to get worse.
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Hey AC, your a Conservative Hero now! Good on you.
Which means we will never get that information because no one will risk going to jail for it. Your own family, of course they will, but the agent interrogating KSM didn’t have any family at risk so why would he risk the punishment?
I just find it humorous that you all think WB is torture. Why stop there? Why not define everything other then raising your voice while asking the question as torture?
Sigh….
Re: “When (if) he steps forward and says that “torture” is wrong except when it will save the lives of my family that is when he will become a weasel like you Stevie.”
Did you or did you not read my response? I said that I would do anything for my family, but that that would still not make it right. How did you come up with my making an exception for myself? You either did not read my response, or are deliberately lying about what I said. I believe I am owed an apology for you cavalier insult based on your own lying about what I said.
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Re: “Given your gross bias towards D’s and against R’s, it seems that the only reason you do not hold them to account is because you care more about the party policies and platform than patriotic check and balance.”
I guess you missed my statement where I said that we (Democrats) would deserve our humiliation for losing in 2008. Or did you deliberately ignore it?
And please do not lecture me about “party politics” I see nothing but loyal Republicans here, who I guarantee will 100% pull the “R” lever this Fall, without exception. Go ahead and scream back at me for another “100%” comment. Except that this prediction will be “100% correct” for 2008 (and 2010, and 2012, and 2014,…) Not one of you Conservatives will vote for a Democratic candidate, ever again, for the rest of your lives (and the RNC knows this full well, and takes it for granted). If one of you Conservatives ever does so, come back and I will then apologize to you directly. I guarantee that I will never have to do so.
heheheh, Steve complains about people not reading his posts, then goes on to demonstrate that he isn’t reading posts. Loved how you mentioned a caveat of complaint against the party in power, then went off for an entire paragraph ranting about conservatives. That’s called distraction and/or bias.