Debate Over Torture? What Happended To Our Country?

Bush argues terrorism case after Republican revolt

Bush goes before reporters a day after a Senate Committee rejected the president's pleas that legislation on foreign terrorists allow CIA interrogators to use tough interrogation methods.


Instead, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 15-9 to endorse an alternative bill by Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain that would protect the rights of foreign terrorism suspects.

McCain, Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham made up the core of the rebellion against Bush and engineered the vote despite a personal visit by the president on Thursday.

Let stop beating around the bush, and start talking about what is really going on here. This is about human rights versus torture.

Since when did the Republican Party become the Pro-Torture Party? Since when did America become the country where we are having debates over whether or not it is okay to violate human rights?

This is why I hate Bush, his administration, his party, and the people that voted for them. I hate them for what they have done to our country, our ideals.

Suddenly, we find our government fighting for the right to torture, violate human rights, and redefine the Geneva Conventions. It is like we are living in the Twilight Zone. How did we get to this point?

Where is the outratge?! How can 40% of the the United States (where we are supposed to be better than our enemies) still support a president who supports TORTURE? 40%! There should be a revolution in this country! There should be storms of massive protests demanding the resignation of any president who argues for the right to torture! But because of stupid, blind party loyalty, people believe this lying sack of crap when he says we don't torture while simultaneously demanding the right to torture.

If you are not planning to torture anyone, then you do not need to be able to legally torture. Bush wants to be able to legally torture because he is torturing people. Why else would he fight so hard for this?

The Bush administration complains that the Geneva Conventions are too vague on this issue. No one else seems to have had this problem with the Geneva Conventions since they were created (unless they wanted to torture people). Obviously, the Bush administration has a problem with the Geneva Conventions. They want to torture, and the Geneva Conventions say they can't. That is why they want to try to redefine or reinterpret them, so that their illegal activities and human rights violations can be legal under their new definitions.

Again, why there is not rioting in the streets over this is beyond me. This is supposed to be America. This is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave, not the land of the torturers and home of the human rights violators.

If the Geneva Conventions is really too "vague" for the Bush team, how about a Golden Rule standard? Is that too vague? Do unto your enemies in your prisons, as you would have them do unto you in their prisons? That's what the Geneva Conventions are based on. Protecting your own.

It could be that I was just naive, and America was never as rosy as I believed it to be when I was a child, but I cannot help how I feel about this.

I want my country back.