House Committee Squashes Torture Queries

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON Feb 8, 2006 (AP)— Republicans easily defeated three resolutions seeking information about the Bush administration's policies on torture after a heated committee hearing.

Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said Democrats who submitted the resolutions should "at least silently confess to themselves that their actions pose real dangers to our country."

Hyde accused Democrats of playing politics, with an eye on November's congressional elections, by offering the three resolutions demanding:

Information on a practice that has been called extraordinary rendition, or sending suspects abroad to countries where they would allegedly be tortured for information.

Documents about U.S. policies regarding U.N. anti-torture conventions.

Documents and records involving Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's December trip to Europe, during which she was dogged by reports of alleged secret European jails.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1596225&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

[jamesinca]

1. My Hyde

people are sick of the repug corruption and secrecy. Every time a Dem puts something out there that requires you to cover anything up it is considered election year partisan politics. And when you propose something that panders to your base and screws the majority of Americans, that is not considered partisan election year BS.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Haha

Danger to the GOP reward for having a walking disaster in the WH.
Hide head in sand quick quick
Do not let misdeed be known
Blow blow all blow away
Need time puff puff
Holy shit so much shit to shovel
Not enough place to hide them

[Mnemosyne]

3. These have got to be the most despicable

people walking the earth. :puke: Maybe Hyde should experience a bit of the torture and lose a bit of his own hide. See if he would want it investigated then! :puke:

V

[IndianaGreen]

8. They are Nazis

The only difference with their German counterparts is that they wear business suits and speak English.

[leftchick]

15. Agreed and

hyde bears a striking resemblence to Goering...

[Mnemosyne]

16. We need some DU designers to

design them some lovely new official uniforms. The SS uniforms are so 1940's!

Something like these would be nice::evilgrin:


And they do speak English but it's newspeak ala Orwell.

Have you seen the one DUer sig pic that has some nazi and Rummy next to each other? The resemblance is creepy!

In peace and hope,:hi:
V

[HuffleClaw]

4. "All three proposed resolutions were defeated...

...on almost straight party-line votes."

erm, does that mean a DEMOCRAT voted with hyde?

[roguevalley]

5. Hey, Henry. Go f yourself.

[bpilgrim]

6. No Bravery

http://nobravery.cf.huffingtonpost.com

peace

[IndianaGreen]

7. Hyde: The right-to-life fat ass dumb fuck from Illinois

We should torture him and his family until he admits that torture is really a bad thing to do! Let's start with the Fort Benning WHISC Manual to extract confessions, Chapter One, attaching electrodes to testicles.

[Rex]

9. Playing politics, playing politics

that's all the Repukes do!!! So much for full transparency, feel sorry for people who get 'disappeared' off to a foreign nation. :(

[LynnTheDem]

10. bush reserves the right to order torture; repubs won't discuss US torture

So we ARE a nation that HAS and DOES torture.

So why not just admit it.

A nation that tortures is NOT a "good guy".

We torture.

It's simple. Let's cut the crap and be honest about what we now are.

[magellan]

11. I don't see how anyone could think the three Dem resolutions

...add up to 'playing politics'. Sounds like a simple attempt at information gathering.

But then, I'm not a corrupt Republican.

[suffragette]

12. And we sink farther into the abyss

spiralling down away from the values to which we once aspired.

They are despicable and are destroying all that was once worthwhile here as well as the lives of so many, too many people.

[NVMojo]

13. if there is a hell, I hope these feckers end up there.

[tecelote]

14. Where is the outrage and why are the Democrats not

accusing the Republicans of being vicious assholes?

If there is one subject that will ring true with Americans from all parties and all races, this is it. No torture.

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Torture doesn’t work because people will simply say what you want them to say instead of telling the truth. Hmm. Wait a minute. Yeah, I get it! Karl, you’re a genius.