Bush Vetoes U.S. Bill Outlawing CIA Waterboarding
March 9th, 2008Enemy collaborator/enabler Democrats keep funding it all.
Via: Reuters:
U.S. President George W. Bush on Saturday vetoed legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial interrogation techniques.
Lawmakers included the anti-torture measure in a broader bill authorizing U.S. intelligence activities.
“Because the danger remains, we need to ensure our intelligence officials have all the tools they need to stop the terrorists,” Bush said in his weekly radio address. He added that the vetoed legislation “would diminish these vital tools.”
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said Democrats would try to overturn Bush’s veto and said U.S. moral authority was at stake.
“We will begin to reassert that moral authority by attempting to override the president’s veto next week,” Pelosi said.
Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts called Bush’s veto “one of the most shameful acts of his presidency.”
It is unlikely that Democrats, the majority party in Congress, could muster enough votes to overturn Bush’s veto. The bill passed the House and Senate on partisan votes, short of the support needed to reverse the president.
How else are we going to make the world safe for christianity and freedom if we can’t torture the heathens? Guess there won’t be any law banning the U.S. gov’t from employing the strappado, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manadel_al-Jamadi
this is a surprise? HA! GW would love to do it himself if he could get away with it. Vicarious torture, that’s what it is.