So that IS what it was about. They are trying to sneak in a way to mess with the Military Field Manual. There is no real diplomacy crisis, it is a manufactured crises. If Powell is for it, I'm agin' it. These guys are really going to do some damage with this just so they can preen on the public stage.
Yes...this is all about the three I mentioned, wanting to put, yet again, the military on trial for "torture and prisoner abuse" at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib....
and they want to make the Army's manual...but, from what I heard, they can't just do that....because some changes for the type of enemy we have now, would have to be made...and that is a "VOLITILE" subject....what is torture, what isn't....is making an insurgent sleep on the floor, instead of a comfy bed, torture or not...
Is almost, but not quite flushing a Koran considered torture...???
Think about how many people died, just because of a blurb (that was a falsity) in a magazine, suggesting that the military was flushing Korans....and you can see how dangerous that subject could be right now...
AND, we would be letting the enemy KNOW how far/not far we are willing to go....
This is idiotic, and I hate it...
BTW, the ones wanting to attach a bunch of $$$$$$$$$ for the heating oil for old people this winter...are the SAME ones that would be having a HISSY FIT if drilling at ANWR were added to this bill....