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President Bush’s pronouncement speaks for itself. What would U.S. Senator and presumptive Republican nominee for president John McCain do? What will he do?
I don’t follow what U.S Senator Ted Kennedy says all that closely, except on education, but in this instance, I agree with him 100%.
Backers of the legislation, which cleared the House in December and won Senate approval last month, say the interrogation methods used by the military are sufficient.
“President Bush’s veto will be one of the most shameful acts of his presidency,” Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a statement Friday. “Unless Congress overrides the veto, it will go down in history as a flagrant insult to the rule of law and a serious stain on the good name of America in the eyes of the world.”
He noted that the Army field manual contends that harsh interrogation is a “poor technique that yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say what he thinks the (interrogator) wants to hear.”
Even if someone produced a report that indicates, “if only we’d waterboarded them, we would have saved x number of lives,” I’m doubtful that I could ever support such a tactic. It is inhumane and the fact that there are people who do these things to other people for a living has always bothered me.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:25 am March 8th, 2008 in Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Military, Politics, Social Issues
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Stop by and see what I had to say about it, I took a tad more offense than you or Ted.