"The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror," Bush said in his weekly radio address taped for broadcast Saturday. "So today I vetoed it," Bush said. The bill he rejected provides guidelines for intelligence activities for the year and has the interrogation requirement as one provision. It cleared the House in December and the Senate last month.
The "valuable tool" he refers to is waterboarding. The bill would also ban beating, electrocuting, burning, using dogs, stripping detainees, forcing them to perform or mimic sexual acts. All torture.
This is simply the most disgusting thing Bush has done in his time as President. It makes me sick to think someone who favors things like electrocuting other human beings or repeats of what went on at Abu Ghraib is actually in the nation's highest office. The article goes on to say:
Bush has said many times that his administration does not torture.
That, with his veto, makes him an outright liar and a disgusting stain on the morality of the United States. Every American should be ashamed of having him as President. I wonder what the newly anointed Republican nominee (who has strongly opposed torture in the past) has to say? I'd bet his tune has changed now that Bush has endorsed him...and if so, that's worth noting come November.
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