Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, John Warner of Virginia, and Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina led the first push-back in the Senate over the war when they opposed the
White House over its torture policy last year.
- Senator McCain, a former prisoner of war in North Vietnam, knows torture firsthand and
brings moral authority to the issue. Torture is wrong, he says. Anything that weakens
international protections for detainees, "threatens US troops in this and future wars," he
said on Friday.
- Senator Graham, a military lawyer with the Air Force Reserve for 22 years, said Sunday on
CBS's "Face the Nation" that President Bush's detainee bill, including its "clarification"
of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, would "redefine America in a way that we can't win this
war."
- Senator Warner, a former secretary of the Navy and now chairman of the Senate Armed
Services Committee, says he aims to pass legislation that will withstand further review by
US courts.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0918/p01s01-usfp.html
Lawrence is going to reply that...
You're beyond laughter. This is willful ignorance.
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