Posted on 12/15/2005 4:08:10 PM PST by armydawg1
WASHINGTON - President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. John McCain's call for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. Bush said the agreement will "make it clear to the world that this government does not torture and that we adhere to the international convention of torture, whether it be here at home or abroad."
"It's a done deal," said McCain, talking to reporters in a driving rain outside the White House.
Under the deal, CIA interrogators would be given the same legal rights as currently guaranteed members of the military who are accused of breaking interrogation guidelines. Those rules say the accused can defend themselves by arguing it was reasonable for them to believe they were obeying a legal order.
"We've sent a message to the world that the United States is not like the terrorists," McCain said earlier as he sat next to Bush in the Oval Office.
The White House at one point threatened a veto if the ban was included in legislation sent to the president's desk, and Vice President Dick Cheney made an unusual personal appeal to all Republican senators to give an exemption to the CIA. www.drudgereport.com
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How weak can he look to be? McCain wears him like a cheap suit.
But Duncan Hunter has some real problems with it.
He's a very sick individual.
This wouldn't be so bad if Bush hadn't promised to veto it in the first place...
Well, I take that back. It's horrible.
Every time I start to think the president's getting it right....
Many people will die because of this......
Not the 'genius", he'll just get fatter and more idiotic.
McCain, Bush and the band of merry idiots have just endowed terrorists with 5th, 8th and 14th Amendment Rights. They make the Church Commission look like pikers.
The country will pay dearly for this decision. It reminds of the decision not to hire spys with questionable backgrounds.
It's crap like this that makes me tune out almost everything the president says. He isn't standing up for the people and beliefs that got him re-elected. Now, caving on the phony "torture" issue after saying he wouldn't, he demoralizes every American who takes the war on terror seriously.
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In this case, it can not be posted enough Howilin. This is truly maddening. Thus far today, I have called the White House, resigned from the Republican Party, renounced the Senate and the House members who voted for this grabage and I'm just getting started. A disgrace.
This is terrible.
Ever since I saw him holding hands with that Saudi I can't look at him anymore.
....then he blows it again, how very disappointing.
I'm gonna take this the only way i can,,, I'm gonna put 110% into getting McMainiac's sock puppet Sen. Limpy Graham unelected...
Bush caving in again.
Did you think he was going to veto the Defense Bill?
Can you tell me how he was going to override the Senate and House overrides of HIS veto?
Maybe they have a secret plan to make them all U.S. citizens and then make them subject to income tax. Then again, maybe not.
I am terribly disappointed in the Presidents willingness to go along with this.
McPain strikes again!
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