Looks like the Senate voted to outlaw waterboarding and any other interrogation techniques that work. Now They will demand that interrogators say “pretty please” until they get full compliance, or even more likely, they just give up and send the bad guy on his merry way.
Who will they blame the next time we are attacked?
The Senate voted 51 to 45 on Wednesday afternoon to ban waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency against high-level terrorism suspects.
Senate Republicans generally opposed the bill, but several of them also did not want to cast a vote that could be construed as supporting torture (pussies one and all), and so were relying on President Bush to make good on a threat to veto legislation limiting C.I.A. interrogation techniques.
The prohibition of harsh interrogation techniques is part of a wider intelligence authorization bill and would restrict all American interrogators to techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual, which bars the use of physical force.The House approved the bill in December by a vote of 222 to 199, mostly along party lines. Wednesday’s vote in the Senate was also along party lines. All the “no” votes were cast by Republicans, except for those of Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska. Five Republicans and Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, voted “yes.”
But the White House has long said Mr. Bush will veto the bill, saying it “would prevent the president from taking the lawful actions necessary to protect Americans from attack in wartime.”
McCain showed up and voted against tying the hands of our interrogators, good for him.
Obama and Hillary? They were too busy to show up and vote. You have any guess why they wouldn’t want to be on record?
Cough….
Not long after the vote the libs were whining about McCain vote, which should shock no one. But what is actually kind of surprising is that he did vote no on this thing. Did he do it because he knew Bush would veto it?
I guess when it comes time to vote on that veto we will find out.
But what gets me in this whole thing is that waterboarding worked. It didn’t physically harm the person, it psychological made them feel like they were gonna drown, but after they were done they walked away from it with no physical damage done.
And it worked.
KSM gave up a ton of information against al-Qaeda which would never had known otherwise. It helped prevent attacks in this war against terror so…..lets just take it away. No physical violence needed, no breaking of fingers or electrocution. No gouging out of eyes or burning the skin. None of that.
What in the hell do these people think will work against the worst of the worst? Serving some krispy kreme doughtnuts? Or maybe Starbucks….woops, already tried.
Only going to get worse people if Hillary/Obama is elected. Only going to get worse.
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