In the wake of the malodorous Abu Ghraib scandal, several US Senators, John Warner of VA and John McCain of AZ decided to add an amendment to the next Defense appropriation bill in order to ban cruel and degrading treatment of prisoners.
The bill is ready. $440.2 Billion with a B. This bill includes an additional $50 Billion bucks to continue our most excellent Imperial adventure in Viet Nam II – I mean Iraq. Now, that $50 Billion isn’t a bottom line, you understand. Just enough to carry us over into next year sometime. There will be more supplementals. (Aren’t there always more supplementals with Bu$hCo?)
Mr. Bush doesn’t like this. Preznit Gimme Money wants to just keep squeezing the stone and don’t be asking him what he’s going to do with the money and don’t be telling him he’s not supposed to torture the towel heads because Freedom is on the march. After all, a man who spent his childhood blowing up frogs with firecrackers surely has higher goals now.
Senator Warner served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946 as a 3rd class electronics technician and then again from 1950 to 1952 as a commissioned communications officer with the First Marine Air Wing.
Senator McCain, of course, is well-known as a Naval Aviator who spent 7 years as a guest at the infamous Hanoi Hilton where he suffered many indignities and torture. Because of the treatment he received he no cannot raise his hands high enough to tie his own tie.
Mr. Bush has said he will veto this military appropriations bill if the Senators demand he stop torturing prisoners. We’ve had 5 years of seeing how this crew works, so we know they will have their pet dogs, the presstitutes of the US media stating that Warner and McCain hate America and despise the GI Joes and Janes over there in Iraq making Freedom do the duck walk, or the frog march, or whatever it is Mr Bush thinks we do there.
Now, he’s always gotten his way by threatening to veto any bill he doesn’t like. I wonder whether the ground rules have changed?
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The sad part to me is that all the laws and treaties we need to force the president to stop the torture regime are already in place.
The only reason he's gotten away with this business so far is that his "counsel," Alberto Gonzalez, led an effort to write memos that said the laws and treaties didn't apply.
How's that for a way to grab absolute power? Just have your lawyer write a memo that says you have it.
It's like something you'd expect from a crooked Condo association--have the lawyer write a memo saying the association doesn't have to live up to the CCRs, but the individual owners do.
Rovewellian!
As if McCain won't roll over once again like the little bitch that he is.
His vote in favor of Gitmo Gonzales proved that he'd sell anything--including his soul--to the Rethuglican Party.
I've had my run-ins with Captain McCain.. He used to vacation on the island of Bora Bora every year and he and I have had our share of verbal fisticuffs. I call him Cap'n and he gets his hackles up, and turns blotchy and sez. My title is Senator, not Captain, and I sez to the Bush Butt Boy, I call you by the last position that you honorably held.. I don't like him much, and when threatened by him to have me removed from Polynesia by using his political weight. I laughed in his face and told him to give it his best shot, as I was, and still am, a French National...
Herr McCain is nothing more than a bully, I never served with him, but have heard from those who had, that he was a good officer overall. I did know and liked his father. I worked on a lot of equipment at CincPac at the time and had the chance to talk to the Admiral.. Too bad his son isn't 10% of what his father was.
Bush has not vetoed ANYTHING the entire time he's been in office; what makes you think he'll start now?
Thanks to Jeff, Chthulhu, and Ken for commenting. I agree with Jeff - he's drunk the Kool-Aid. He's bought a seat at the able of Bu$hCo International. The Senator deserves the respect due any member of that body. The man deserves our respect and loyalty for what he withstood during his imprisonment. As vets we owe himn that symbolic bow. Having said that, I have nothing but contempt for McCain the politician. His family was attacked when he was a candidate and he refused to support and defend them. To me, loyalty to family is FAR more important than loyalty to one's own political ambitions. If you won't stand up to protect your wife and children, do you really expect me to want to entrust you with the safety of MY family and children?
I can't speak to the comments comparing Mc Cain and his father, but will cede the ground to those able to make such comparisons from personal experience.
Three phrases should be among the most common in our daily usage. They are: Thank you, I am grateful and I appreciate.
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