Great legacy to build, George. Maybe it will take historians’ attention off all your other gaffes.
House Democrats failed Tuesday to override President Bush’s veto of a ban on waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques, and they castigated the administration for subjecting prisoners to torture in the fight against terrorism. […] The vote to overturn the veto, which required a two-thirds majority, fell short, 225-188.
[…] The Bush administration has opposed taking any interrogation options off the table, saying that to do so would rob U.S. investigators of important tools. In a statement after the vote, Press Secretary Dana Perino said, “The bill would have eliminated the legal alternative procedures in place in the CIA program to question the world’s most dangerous and violent terrorists.”
Or anyone else they chose to use the “procedures” on.
I say again — torture is ineffective 99% of the time, unless it is to provide an immediately verifiable piece of information, and it’s inappropriate 99.99% of the time. We shouldn’t be setting US policy — and trumpeting it to the world — based on “nuke in New York” sort of scenarios, otherwise we should let the police (or, honestly, anyone else) detain people at will and interrogate anyone with any technique they want.
Disgusting.
Unfortunately, people don’t think about the innocent people affected…there are a lot of cold, cruel people who think our security should come at any cost…