"We, your EXEMPT GOP Masters swear to continue to torture Americans
with ObamaCARE, ObamaTRADE, and new taxes,
and will torture conservatives mercilessly with IRS attacks
and their coverup, all initiated by us."
Posted on 06/16/2015 4:19:29 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Senate on Tuesday reaffirmed a ban against torturing detainees and moved ahead on a more than $600 billion defense policy bill that is entangled in a broader fight in Congress about caps on Pentagon and non-military spending.
The Senate overwhelmingly voted 78 to 21 to approve an amendment that bolsters current law and makes the U.S. Army Field Manual on interrogations the standard for all interrogations conducted by the U.S. government. It also gives the International Committee of the Red Cross access to every detainee held by the U.S.
The vote comes just months after the Senate intelligence committee released findings of a classified investigation that said the CIA’s brutal interrogations of al-Qaida detainees after 9/11 were harsher than previously thought.
Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who introduced the amendment with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said it was important because the presidential executive order banning torture could one day be lifted by a future president. …
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No more Obama State of The Union Speeches?
Define torture.
Seeing Republicans behave just like Democrats?
"We, your EXEMPT GOP Masters swear to continue to torture Americans
with ObamaCARE, ObamaTRADE, and new taxes,
and will torture conservatives mercilessly with IRS attacks
and their coverup, all initiated by us."
What if we just do it as a hobby?
Presidential candidate votes:
Paul: Yes (reaffirm the ban)
Cruz: Yes
Graham: No (kind of surprising given his relationship to McCain)
Rubio : did not vote
The House and Senate torture me every day. :-)
Having this man in the United States Senate
Beat me to it. Those are cruel and unusual punishment.
Amateur torture might be exempted, who knows
(Being wildly silly here)
Gollum. Gollum, gollum.
One Man’s Torture is another Man’s Enhanced Interrogation.
Maybe we should just start sawing off Heads like the JV Team does. Call it Enhanced Execution.
I just think that for 600 billion EVERY year, we should have the most fearsome and awesome military in the history of the world.
Perhaps we do. But I think 15 percent cuts across the board besides SS to balance the budget is a necessity.
OR we could get welfare, food stamps, section 8 and keep the military from cuts. :)
That's the problem. There was a LOT of anti-war anger at waterboarding. But I think it's questionable whether it's torture. It certainly isn't fun, but it does no permanent damage, which is a big issue. And it resulted in preventing a lot of Americans getting killed.
I think the LAST thing we need is to have the UN stepping in and defining torture, or supervising American handling of prisoners. The UN is well known to be pro-Muslim and anti-American. I can just see them approving of Muslim beheadings but objecting to Americans putting a misbehaving prisoner in an isolation cell.
America treats its prisoners of war better than almost any other country. We don't need the UN sticking their noses in.
The world is now safe from us.
Bravo Senators.
Actually, this refers to left-handed torture, and does not prevent right-handed torture. Next stupid issue, please. (/s)
I think I can speak for all when I say Thank You to the US Senate for banning photos of Hillary.
Another nail in the coffin of our national defense.
War means killing, and these bee-otches want to pretend that we’re barbarians if we muss the other guy’s hair.
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