Torture, Dissidents, and the Unbelievable
It is being reported by the BBC that the UN’s chief anti-toture expert that Iraq is out of control and that torture is worse after Saddam since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. “What most people tell you is that the situation as far as torture is concerned now in Iraq is totally out of hand,” said Manfred Nowak, an Austrian Law professor. “The situation is so bad many people say it is worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein.”
In the mean time, the Senate is facing its own battle over a detainee bill that is supposed to obsolve the United States from alleged agressions against detainees who were in custody of the CIA. The more the White House pushes for this bill, the more they leave the impression that if protections are not passed, the United States will be in violation of General Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
It is being reported that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) will allow a filibuster of the bill supported by John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), John Warner (R-VA), and Susan Collins (R-ME) that does not support the language proposed by the White House. These senators are being called “dissidents” my allegedly mainstream Republicans. Frist, who is speculated to be a candidate for the presidency in 2008 and a person with a medical degree who diagnoses people that are not his patients using selective video from his office in Washington, shows that he wears the jackboots of the neo-con army and will goose-step along with anything that fits his agenda rather than doing what is morally right.
As the debate moves forward, we see members like Christopher Shays (R-CT), Michael Castle (R-DE), Jim Leach (R-IA) and James T. Walsh (R-NY) supporting the McCain-Graham-Warner bill while John Boehner (R-OH) plays politics with his waffling between being a good party-boy and trying to look good at home in a tough election year. Boehner's tough sounding stance is like watching a toothless pitbull trying to gum a rubber bone.
This crowd of neo-cons telling us that they are trying to do what is best for the country is begining to wear very thin. It's almost as funny as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying he is not an anti-Semite.
In the mean time, the Senate is facing its own battle over a detainee bill that is supposed to obsolve the United States from alleged agressions against detainees who were in custody of the CIA. The more the White House pushes for this bill, the more they leave the impression that if protections are not passed, the United States will be in violation of General Article 3 of the Geneva Convention.
It is being reported that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) will allow a filibuster of the bill supported by John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsay Graham (R-SC), John Warner (R-VA), and Susan Collins (R-ME) that does not support the language proposed by the White House. These senators are being called “dissidents” my allegedly mainstream Republicans. Frist, who is speculated to be a candidate for the presidency in 2008 and a person with a medical degree who diagnoses people that are not his patients using selective video from his office in Washington, shows that he wears the jackboots of the neo-con army and will goose-step along with anything that fits his agenda rather than doing what is morally right.
As the debate moves forward, we see members like Christopher Shays (R-CT), Michael Castle (R-DE), Jim Leach (R-IA) and James T. Walsh (R-NY) supporting the McCain-Graham-Warner bill while John Boehner (R-OH) plays politics with his waffling between being a good party-boy and trying to look good at home in a tough election year. Boehner's tough sounding stance is like watching a toothless pitbull trying to gum a rubber bone.
This crowd of neo-cons telling us that they are trying to do what is best for the country is begining to wear very thin. It's almost as funny as Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying he is not an anti-Semite.
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