Thank God someone is standing up against this dangerously incompetent man:
"Weakening the Geneva protections is not only unnecessary, but would set an example to other countries, with less respect for basic human rights, that they could issue their own legislative 'reinterpretations,' " McCain said in a written statement. "This puts our military personnel and others directly at risk in this and future wars."George Bush wants to put our troops at risk.
But it gets even more interesting. According to the article, Olympia Snowe has joined the rebel Republicans, and the Army's judge advocate general appears to have backed off of supporting Bush:
late yesterday, Maj. Gen. Scott C. Black, the Army's judge advocate general, sent a new letter to McCain and other senators, saying "further redefinition" of the conventions "is unnecessary and could be seen as a weakening of our treaty obligations, rather than a reinforcement of the standards of treatment."It appears, ladies and gentlemen, that our entire federal government outside of the White House may have actually come back to live after 5 years of accepting whatever the hell Bush shoved down their throats.
