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."
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Mr. Hagel, thank you for your service. We love it.
But, now, STFU.
Expect the media to pump up this guy in 2008, but conservatives aren't going to fall for it.
Hagel is the ideal House 'Conservative' commentator on CNN. If there were only a candidate to challenge him in the primaries.
McCain and Hagel said today, "I DO NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT."
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?
I wish Hagel and McCain would stop torturing me with this cr*p!
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.
They already do at every chance. He perfectly fits their idea of all Republicans, dumber than a box of rocks.
Chuch Hagel holds another pep-rally for terrorists on failed talk show with a Democrat operative host.
"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?
George Allen is looking better and better every day.
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...
RINO Hagel, the 'Conservative', is ideologically closer to Joseph Biden than he is with Limbaugh.
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.
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.
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.
LOLOL
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.
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