Reply #15: Many Senate Democrats did fight it

[karynnj]

The biggest problem was that the compromise bill was finished within days of the vote. The Democrats wrote something like 60 amendments to fix it. Reid negotiated approval to bring 4 to the floor. It was impossible to stop - there weren't enough people against it. Kerry, Kennedy, Dodd and Leahy all made strong cases not to vote it in.

Kerry is NOT shocked now - his speech on the Senate floor said "this bill allows torture" Some of what he says in that statement was what he has been saying since the beginning of September.