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[theweaselking]

The Bush administration is lobbying to block legislation supported by Republican senators that would bar the U.S. military from engaging in "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees, from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross, and from using interrogation methods not authorized by a new Army field manual.

Cheney met Thursday evening with three senior Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to press the administration's case that legislation on these matters would usurp the president's authority and interfere with his ability "to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack."

The White House, in a further indication of its strong feelings, bluntly warned in a statement sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday that Bush would veto the $442 billion defense bill "if legislation is presented that would restrict the President's authority to protect Americans effectively from terrorist attack and bring terrorists to justice."
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That's right.
American people: We want to stop the torture and murder!
Bush: Screw you, hippies! Torture and murder of foreigners is THE AMERICAN WAY! If you're not a white male Baptist, you have no rights.

Comments

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

So, Joh McCain, the guy who spent years in a torture cell in Hanoi, drafts a bill to the effect that doing to other people what was done to him is bad and wrong and Bush is going to give him shit over it in public? Holy Bat Fuckman, I know Bush is stupid, but goddamn, is there no limit to just how fucking stupid he is?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Don't you remember the Primary campaign against McCain?

The one where Bush's employees posed as pollers, called people up, and said "So, would it change your vote if you knew that McCain screwed around on his wife and had illegitimate black children?"

No, there's no limit to how stupid he is.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Wait - he's going to veto a bill that confirms that Americans have to FOLLOW THEIR OWN LAWS?

Holy fuck.

And you know after he's vetoed the bill he'll go around talking about how Democrats shot down the bill because they don't support the troops.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much.

Antra asked about your Dawn Of War disks. I passed them to her.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

Thanks.