Thursday, June 17, 2004

Congressional game-playing

The Senate has passed a proposal that requires the DoD to ensure that no torture is used on prisoners of war and that a report to Congress of any violations be made.

Passage of the proposal by voice vote came after Republicans, facing defeat on the measure, agreed to raise no objections and offer no alternatives if the vote was taken by voice instead of putting all senators on record with a roll call, according to Democratic sources.
  WaPo article

And get this: 97 to 0 a proposal to make war profiteering a crime was defeated.

You were expecting maybe this country was going to turn itself around?

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