I was wrong. I said years ago that we should not impeach President Bush. There was no way we could do it with the number of Republicans in congress but we should have attempted to impeach him.
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Saturday he vetoed legislation that would ban the CIA from using harsh interrogation methods such as waterboarding to break suspected terrorists because it would end practices that have prevented attacks.
"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.
"This is no time for Congress to abandon practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe," the president said.
Supporters of the legislation say it would preserve the United States' ability to collect critical intelligence while also providing a much-needed boost to country's moral standing abroad.
"Torture is a black mark against the United States," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California. "We will not stop until [the ban] becomes law."
The bill would limit CIA interrogators to the 19 techniques allowed for use by military questioners. The Army field manual in 2006 banned using methods such as waterboarding or sensory deprivation on uncooperative prisoners..."
The bill would also ban beating, electrocuting, burning and using dogs.
President Bush is a truly evil person. President Bush has NO socially redeeming value.
No decent, God-Fearing person can condone his veto.
President Bush has by his veto committed a high crime and misdemeanor.
President Bush has no moral or legal justification for his crime.
There is such a thing as Moral Law.
This nation was built on Moral Law and our founding fathers expressed the moral and legal standing of our new nation in the Declaration of Independence.
The United States of America does not torture people. We do not torture prisoners because it is wrong and is a sin.
President Bush is putting at great risk all Americans but most of all the great Americans that service this nation in the armed forces. He is making it policy that we torture prisoners. What can our own service men and women expect now if they become prisoners?
I guess now we will have to demand that congress overturn the veto of President Bush.
I am waiting to hear Republican John McCain on this matter. He was a prisoner for years and he was tortured. I have said a lot of good things about John McCain here in Howard's Notebook in the past. But on this issue there is only one legal moral and American position. I pray to God that John McCain will stand with the Lord.
