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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Even if they are smart enough to take that language out, this will result in the endless litigation of prisoner treatment. Not only will every terrorist send this to the courts, but everyone in Federal custody will sue and say that they were "tortured". This language has enough holes to drive a truck through.
Chuck Hagel lost me when he wanted President Bush to suck up to Iran.
Did you? If not provide some quotes on torture from those that have been at the front line.
Who can forget the Hagel/ Daschle immigration 'reform' plan?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/21/national1248EST0564.DTL
And then Bush I nominated Souter to the Supreme Court because of Rudman and Sununu. What a plague Rudman was.
I'd love to pull a pair of Victoria's Secret undies down over Chucky's ears and listen to him scream.
I will leave it at that.
Words to Live By: Serving in the armed services does not give you the right to urinate and defecate on a younger version at a later date.
Senator Hagel might become more of a team player if he spent some time on the rack (or, for the MP crowd, on the comfy chair).
Forget that. Make 'em Granny Panties.
ping
"A leading Republican senator said Sunday that the Bush administration is making "a terrible mistake" "
Why do they call him a LEADING Republican?
So why does the WH oppose the ban?
Say, Moolah, have you stopped beating your wife?
Hmmmmm.....why would that make someone scream? :-)
If it would save one American life I would place the testes of every Muslim under arrest in a vice. Just one life. Are these people in uniform?, have they openly declared a war.? If not they arent soldiers they are terrorists and they have no rights.
Do these ring a bell?
1) Common sense
2) Interrogating Terrorists is a necessary element of fighting the WOT
3) We can't sign a blank check against techniques not know what future situations we will face
Among others.....
I don't know. Just something we learned from the Abu Ghraib "scandal" that was created by the DemocRATS and their toadies in the MSM.
So how come the Senate vote was so overwhelming?
BTW, don't assume I'm for not being able to torture.
That doesn't address the question and your response was not appropriate. My question was not a loaded one.
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