It is amusing to see the media’s hosannahs over the Bush administration’s agreement to accept the McCain amendment to purportedly prohibit U.S. government officials from torturing people.<\/p>\n
This will be only one more provision in the statute book.<\/p>\n
Unless someone can find a way to make the\u00a0Bush administration to obey the law, then passing another law is simply another in a long series of charades.\u00a0\u00a0 Torture is already illegal under U.S. law.\u00a0\u00a0 Until\u00a0the top Bush administration officials who helped craft and approve the torture policies are\u00a0prosecuted, then any “reform” is another Washington con on the American people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is amusing to see the media’s hosannahs over the Bush administration’s agreement to accept the McCain amendment to purportedly prohibit U.S. government officials from torturing people. This will be only one more provision in the statute book. Unless someone can find a way to make the\u00a0Bush administration to obey the law, then passing another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n