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GOP senator criticizes White House torture stance (Chucky Hagel Again)
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Posted on 11/06/2005 12:04:50 PM PST by indianrightwinger

GOP senator criticizes White House torture stance Bill would ban inhumane treatment of detainees

Sunday, November 6, 2005; Posted: 2:17 p.m. EST (19:17 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A leading Republican senator said Sunday that the Bush administration is making "a terrible mistake" in opposing a congressional ban on torture and other inhuman treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, considered a potential presidential candidate in 2008, said many Republican senators support the ban proposed by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

The ban was approved by a 90-9 vote last month in the Senate and added to a defense spending bill. The White House has threatened a veto, but the fate of the proposal depends on House-Senate negotiations that will reconcile different versions of the spending measure. The House's does not include the ban.

Vice President Dick Cheney has lobbied Republican senators to allow an exemption for prisoners held by the CIA if preventing an attack is at stake.

"I think the administration is making a terrible mistake in opposing John McCain's amendment on detainees and torture," Hagel, R-Nebraska, said on "This Week" on ABC. "Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know."

McCain, citing the Senate vote as well as support from the public and from former Secretary of State Colin Powell and others with military service, said he will push the issue with the White House "as far as necessary."

"We need to get this issue behind us," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday." "Our image in the world is suffering very badly, and one of the reasons for it is the perception that we abuse people that we take captive."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: abughraib; aidcomfort; chuckhagel; gitmo; hagel; iraq; mccain; terrorsuspects; torture; waronterror; whitehouse; wot
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Mr. Hagel, thank you for your service. We love it.

But, now, STFU.

1 posted on 11/06/2005 12:04:50 PM PST by indianrightwinger
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To: indianrightwinger

Expect the media to pump up this guy in 2008, but conservatives aren't going to fall for it.


2 posted on 11/06/2005 12:06:22 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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To: indianrightwinger
After reading this I once again wish John Chuck would stick to being Senator, and quit trying to be a sooth on every talking-head program his aides can book him on. It's his right to say what he wants, and it's my right to be repulsed by it over and over and over again.
3 posted on 11/06/2005 12:06:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: indianrightwinger

Hagel is the ideal House 'Conservative' commentator on CNN. If there were only a candidate to challenge him in the primaries.


4 posted on 11/06/2005 12:07:29 PM PST by Rosemont
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To: indianrightwinger
Mr. Hagel,

Serving in the armed services does not give you the right to urinate and defecate on a younger version at a later date.
5 posted on 11/06/2005 12:07:34 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: indianrightwinger

McCain and Hagel said today, "I DO NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT."


6 posted on 11/06/2005 12:08:35 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: indianrightwinger

I am ashamed that he is from my State...He has taken every available opportunity to criticize the Bush Administration and he loves the limelight that the MSM shower on him...I have not seen any polls, but I would think that Nebraskans are also getting a little sick of him...though I could be wrong?


7 posted on 11/06/2005 12:08:59 PM PST by flixxx
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To: indianrightwinger

I wish Hagel and McCain would stop torturing me with this cr*p!


8 posted on 11/06/2005 12:09:08 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: indianrightwinger

Him and McCain are trying to out snivel each other today. I can't wait for the NH primary in 08.' These two yuks can have a "crawl on your belly" race.


9 posted on 11/06/2005 12:10:39 PM PST by Luke21 (Political correctness is the insane religion of our rulers.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Expect the media to pump up this guy in 2008

They already do at every chance. He perfectly fits their idea of all Republicans, dumber than a box of rocks.

10 posted on 11/06/2005 12:11:21 PM PST by digger48
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To: indianrightwinger

Chuch Hagel holds another pep-rally for terrorists on failed talk show with a Democrat operative host.


11 posted on 11/06/2005 12:11:28 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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"Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know." (Hagel, R France)

Could it be, because you and Senator McCain are conservatives in name only,
and anything you propose is probably a bad idea?


12 posted on 11/06/2005 12:12:08 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: digger48

George Allen is looking better and better every day.


13 posted on 11/06/2005 12:12:11 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: Luke21

McCain has his NH ground troops at the ready, left over from his last campaign up here.

Hagel, however, doesn't have that advantage.

Should be interesting...


14 posted on 11/06/2005 12:14:54 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: new yorker 77

RINO Hagel, the 'Conservative', is ideologically closer to Joseph Biden than he is with Limbaugh.


15 posted on 11/06/2005 12:15:57 PM PST by Rosemont
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To: Rosemont
Hagel is a fraud.

Any Republican who whores them self in the MSM is contemptible.

There is no honor in stabbing members of your party in the back in order to garner the approval of leftists in the press.

That's what a snake does.

16 posted on 11/06/2005 12:18:56 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: new yorker 77
"McCain and Hagel said today, "I DO NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT."

Nah. They said I was in harm's way and I do not approve torture. Easy for people to advocate torture but probably not the view of most with front line experience.

17 posted on 11/06/2005 12:19:22 PM PST by ex-snook (Vote gridlock for the most conservative government)
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To: Rosemont
Hagel is the ideal House 'Conservative' commentator on CNN.

I remember when the media dragged out Warren Rudman, who always complained that Reagan went "too far" on policies.

Frickin' RINOs are more harmful than Rats themselves.

18 posted on 11/06/2005 12:20:39 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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To: tumblindice
Hagel, R France

LOLOL

19 posted on 11/06/2005 12:21:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed)
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To: ex-snook
What does 'I' have to do with protecting 280 Million Americans?

Self absorbtion of McLame and Hagle.

Millions have fought in wars.

Only a few get to use their service as an excuse to be self-important morons.

20 posted on 11/06/2005 12:25:15 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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