Reply #5: It chaps my cushion, turns my stomach, and raises my blood pressure!

[katinmn]

I just sent a letter to my local paper. Even that vent didn't help.

I am so outraged and also pissed at all the silent wussies in the House and Senate of all political ideologies. The politicos care about two things - generating money and getting elected or re-elected.

All I can say is: protest, protest, protest.

Don't forget Oct. 5 World Can't Wait walk-out.

BTW, Here's my LTTE: :-)

Minnesota just caught a whiff of the sulfur that Chavez alluded to at the UN this week

Seventy-seven years after the codification of the Geneva Conventions pertaining to the treatment of prisoners of war, Republican members of the House and Senate plan to change the interpretation of the international law prohibiting torture. They do so to prevent Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, and others being charged with war crimes against humanity.

Minnesota’s own John Kline is one of 19 Republican co-sponsors of the pro-torture legislation. Given that many of those tortured (including a youth who was videotaped being sodomized at Abu Ghraib), have been released and deemed totally innocent, millions of us are aghast that American leaders would choose to endorse such a blatant and morally reprehensible activity. The legislation that will re-interpret Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions includes a provision making the rewritten law retroactive to 9/11/01. Why? It’s been decided by the Supreme Court that the practices of the Bush administration are illegal. Abu Ghraib, Guantanomo, secret CIA prisons, and extraordinary rendition may be punishable as war crimes. Rather than ceasing the illegal activities, the Bush administration seeks to use its cohorts and minions in the legislature to re-write the law.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday initially voted down the Bush cover-up, but in a move that has become all too common among the Republicans in control, the committee waited until two Democrats left after the vote for a Medicare press conference, and then re-voted, and passed the Bush version of the legislation. When the Judiciary Committee stoops to such vile maneuvers, you know the country is in deep trouble. House leaders plan to bring the Bush plan to the floor next week.

The Republicans and their lock-step enablers in the White House, Senate, and House, including Kline, bring great shame to all Americans. Mr. Kline, torture is barbaric and your support for it degrades our nation.