Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Democrats Reaffirm Moral Superiority, Vote to Ban Waterboarding

Sure, it gives them a chance to preen for the cameras and pander to their hardcore base--you know, those who support the other side--but in the end Bush will veto it anyway.

Forget the safety and well-being of potentially millions of Americans, they're more concerned with our image.
Congress on Wednesday moved to prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects, despite President Bush's threat to veto any measure that limits the agency's interrogation techniques.

The prohibition was contained in a bill authorizing intelligence activities for the current year, which the Senate approved on a 51-45 vote. It would restrict the CIA to the 19 interrogation techniques outlined in the Army field manual. That manual prohibits waterboarding, a method that makes an interrogation subject feel he is drowning.

The House had approved the measure in December. Wednesday's Senate vote set up a confrontation with the White House, where Bush has promised to veto any bill that restricts CIA questioning.

Arguing for such restrictions, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the use of harsh tactics would boomerang on the United States.

"Retaliation is the way of the world. What we do to others, they will do to us — but worse," Rockefeller said.
He's right. Next thing you know, they might chop off the heads of our soldiers or torture them in unspeakable ways.

Oh wait, they do that already.

Never mind.
"This debate is about more than legality. It is also about morality, the way we see ourselves ... and what we represent to the world."
What you represent to the world, Mr. Rockefeller, is pusillanimity on a grand scale. What you represent, Mr. Rockefeller, is fecklessness, timidity and weakness.

No wonder our enemies want more Democrats in office.

Update: Thanks to Stop the ACLU for the link. Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin has the roll call, while Bryan at Hot Air discloses more unspeakable horror at Club Gitmo.

Curious to not neither Barack Obama or Mrs. Clinton showed up for the vote. How convenient. Senator McCain voted against this absurdity.

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