This is, in short, a terrible bill. It's an improvement over the House bill favored by the administration, yes, but a terrible bill nonetheless. (The House bill, drafted by Duncan Hunter (R-CA), would allow evidence obtained by "coercive interrogations" to be admitted into military tribunals or "civilian status review commissions," and would deny defendants the right to challenge it if doing so impacted "national security.") Let's all just understand that both bills redefine war crimes under article three of the Geneva Conventions, both start us down a slippery slope towards something quite ugly and both will, in Colin Powell's words, cause the world to "doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism."
Monday, September 18, 2006
The enemy of my enemy is NOT necessarily my friend
The fact that key GOP senators are opposing President Torture does NOT mean they are making a principled stand for American values. If something may be somewhat better than its disgusting and appalling alternative, that does not make it good. Check out my pal Joshua Holland over at Gadflyer. He lays out the Senate meaure's obnoxious provision, and concludes:
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Sometimes I like to think about all these torture advocates actually being tortured by the very methods they advocate.
I like to think about which of them would shit his pants and cry for his momma first. Several of them would probably spoil the fun and just have a massive coronary and die before it gets really good.
But to me, it's a nice way to daydream here and there during the humdrum work day.
Schmidlap - did you hear about the wingnuts who were hammering the journalists who talked to their captors in Iraq? They ripped on them for being weak, etc, as if being a journalist made them somehow impervious to pain.
I agree with you Pete, although it is fun to see the "unified" GOP fighting amongst itself. I enjoy watching them argue over which form of torture is better.
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