Bush Will VETO Ban On Torture

[kpete]

Bush Will Veto Ban On Torture
McCain, Once Tortured Himself, Joins White House To Oppose Bill Prohibiting Waterboarding
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The White House said that President Bush will veto a bill that would ban the use of waterboarding by the CIA. The president claims such a prohibition will inhibit the collection of information. (CBS)

(CBS/AP) The White House said today that President Bush will veto a measure that would ban the CIA from using what the administration describes as "enhanced interrogation methods" on terror suspects.

The provision, part of a broad intelligence authorization bill passed by the House and Senate, would prohibit any interrogation techniques to be used on prisoners that are not authorized or condoned by the U.S. Army Field Manual.

CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller reports that the White House is confident that the president's veto would be sustained.

The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 51 to 45; 5 Republicans joined 45 Democrats and 1 independent in favor of the ban.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/14/national/main3830691.shtml

[uppityperson]

1. Send it to him and let him veto it. Keep sending him this stuff.

Each time he does something like this, more people will turn from him until all he has left is his fundamentalist core.

[NC_Nurse]

2. So what has to happen for them to be impeached?

They're going to ignore the contempt ruling in Congress.
They're going to continue to torture.
They're going to push through their FISA crap.


:mad:

[malaise]

3. Good

He's in the history books supporting torture.

IMPEACH

[bdamomma]

8. exactly, if he does not want to play by rules of law, let him pay.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Tie every Republican to him and this decision

the GOP is the party of torture. The party of spying on individuals (FISA). The party that wants to take away your rights (habeas corpus).

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Go ahead, George and prove once and for all you're not a 'christian' and you're an

evil, lying, wannbe dictator. You sir, are no better than Saddam. P.S. May you meet the same fate.

[lame54]

6. Make him VETO it! - never back down from a threat - make him do it

[Vincardog]

7. Can he veto international law? Can he veto the treaties we have signed? NO

jr is a war criminal.

[backscatter712]

9. Explain to me why this piece of human garbage is still in the White House?

Actually, scratch the word human - Bush isn't even a human being in my eyes anymore. He and his cronies are nothing more than vicious animals.

Why are they still in the White House? Oh yeah, because our Congress is also infested with vicious animals...

[McCamy Taylor]

10. Makes Bush look eeeeevil.

[backscatter712]

11. Only because he is evil.

[Tesha]

12. Good. Send it to him again. And again. And again... (NT)