Make 'em vote

John, stop what you’re doing and look at me, McCain can’t take yes for an answer.
Last year when “negotiating” The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 to stop the cruel and continuous torture of poor innocent jihadis at G’itmo by corrupt and inhumane US military personnel, Senator Self-Centered insisted on the following language for treatment of terrorists:

Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Defined- In this section, the term `cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment' means the cruel, unusual, and inhumane treatment or punishment prohibited by the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, as defined in the United States Reservations, Declarations and Understandings to the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Forms of Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment done at New York, December 10, 1984.

Now fast forward to June 29, 2006. Five dopes in robes decide that captured terrorists, who regularly behead captives after torture, then mutilate the dead bodies, who belong to no country, let alone to one which is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, must be treated in accordance with the conventions. Democrats and other liberals, while claiming to support the troops, hailed the decision – that’ll teach that little Hitler wannabe George Bush.

So now, due to the wisdom of the five dopes, Common Article III applies to terrorists. Sub-paragraph (1) (c) forbids any “outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.” President Bush considers that language too vague. Given what we know about these lunatics anything can and will be considered degrading, women, printed material other than the Koran, photos, political cartoons, words of a 14th century Byzantine King, putting you feet up, eating bacon, music, to name a few, are all degrading to Islamo-terror-fascists.

So the president thinks an undefined Common Article III will put our interrogators at risk of becoming war criminals. So President Bush in an effort to give our interrogators clear lines to operate within went back to McCain’s own language of 2005. That ought to make Senator Maniac happy – right? Wrong!

Senator McNutt claims that the conventions have not been changed in 57 years and the US cannot do so unilaterally. Well HELLO Senator! If they haven’t been amended in 57 years maybe they are just a bit outdated for dealing with Islamo-terror-fascists.

President Bush needs to push this to a vote ASAP. Even if he loses, he’ll smoke out the dopes. How is someone who votes against a bill designed to give our interrogators clear rules of engagement going to justify their position to voters?