Bipartisan Backlash.
"We are Americans, and we hold ourselves to humane standards of treatment of people no matter how evil or terrible they may be. To do otherwise undermines our security, but it also undermines our greatness as a nation." Behind Sen. John McCain, who knows as well as anyone why we must set limits on our interrogation policies, the Senate votes 90-9 to rebuke the White House and constrain future interrogation abuses at Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, and around the world. For his part, Catkiller Frist earlier tried to smother the amendment, but ultimately ended up voting for it. Wouldn't want a vote for torture on our 2008 transcript now, would we?
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If McCain is so opposed to torture, why did he travel and campaign with the Torturer in Chief? Why did he support Torture Boy Gonzalez? McCain only pushed this amendment because he wants to run in 2008, but he knows it'll never get out of the House.
I tend to agree with you on McCain, Carnacki. As they said of Sen. William Borah back in the day, McCain "shoots until he sees the whites of their eyes." But getting a 90-9 vote against Dubya, even after the post-Katrina fiasco and indictment revelations, is no mean feat. So I figured I'd give props where they were due.