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Jul. 26th, 2005 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingThe 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.
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.