Stopping Torture
| By Harry Reid - Feb 15, 2008 9:44:57 PM ET |
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Since Tuesday, tens of thousands of you stepped forward and took a stand against torture. I am happy to announce that all your hard work paid off. Thank you.
The Senate passed the Intelligence Authorization bill banning torture. This sent a clear signal to the world: the United States Senate believes torture is immoral and does not work.
Now the bill will go to George Bush, who has a choice: He can sign it into law and declare America does not torture. Or he can continue to damage America's reputation in the world.
Now is the moment when we all need to join together and say "no" to torture. If you've already signed the petition, please forward this e-mail to your friends and family and ask them to sign. If you haven't signed, take a stand against torture now by visiting:
http://giveemhellharry.com/stoptorture
Nearly every expert on interrogation agrees that torture is counter-productive. Most of the information it generates is simply unreliable, causing our intelligence agencies to waste time chasing down false leads. It also puts U.S. troops at risk, in addition to undermining our counterinsurgency operations.
Now is the time for George Bush to show some moral leadership and sign this bill into law. That is why, right now, all of us need to join together and take a stand against torture by visiting:
http://giveemhellharry.com/stoptorture
The Senate passed the Intelligence Authorization bill banning torture. This sent a clear signal to the world: the United States Senate believes torture is immoral and does not work.
Now the bill will go to George Bush, who has a choice: He can sign it into law and declare America does not torture. Or he can continue to damage America's reputation in the world.
Now is the moment when we all need to join together and say "no" to torture. If you've already signed the petition, please forward this e-mail to your friends and family and ask them to sign. If you haven't signed, take a stand against torture now by visiting:
http://giveemhellharry.com/stoptorture
Nearly every expert on interrogation agrees that torture is counter-productive. Most of the information it generates is simply unreliable, causing our intelligence agencies to waste time chasing down false leads. It also puts U.S. troops at risk, in addition to undermining our counterinsurgency operations.
Now is the time for George Bush to show some moral leadership and sign this bill into law. That is why, right now, all of us need to join together and take a stand against torture by visiting:
http://giveemhellharry.com/stoptorture
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You ride into office with a mandate so clear that even Carl Rove can’t spin it, and you immediately turn into invertebrates!!
You have failed miserably to “Stand UP!,” as you challenged others to do but you won’t do, to virtually EVERY opportunity to move forward the agendas you were elected to implement.
WHAT THE HELL IS WITH YOU AND THE OTHER SENATE DEMOCRATS SELLING OUT TO THE TELECOMS ON FISA!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN THE REPUBLICANS ADMIT IT IS NOT ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY BUT “PROTECTING THE PRIVATE SECTOR”
You and the rest of the democrats that folded on this and supported all the other Republican agendas should be voted out of office so we can get some people with spines in Washington the fulfill the mandates your were given and have totally abandoned.
It is very apparent that you really don’t want feedback on what you are (rather aren’t) doing there in DC, you don’t even have the courage to put an email address anywhere on your site where people can write you directly. Rather, we have to jump through hoops to be able to post to this blog that I doubt seriously you, or even your staff, give much consideration to, if you even read it at all.
The rest of you who do invest the time and energy to read these, congratulations on your spirit and dedication to the democratic process that Harry and the rest of the Democrats in Washington have lost sight of and commitment to.
Maybe we can give these guys a wake-up call in November so they wake-up, smell the coffee and DROP THE PLOITICS AND POLITICAL MANUVERING AND ACTUALLY DO THE PEOPLE”S BUSINESS AND DEDICATE THEMSELVES TO COVERING SOMEONE ELSE’S ASS OTHER THAN THEIR OWN!!!
HARRY GET THE MESSAGE (which I doubt he will get now given he didn’t get it in the last election), and thank you to the rest of you who read this for this opportunity for me to rant!!!
Thank God for Nancy Pelosi and the House for standing up for what is right. Until you change your position, or the party changes its leadership in the Senate, I will not donate one more dollar to the Democratic Party. You and the Democrats in the Senate should be ashamed of your actions.
We elected you to make a difference, not to cower in a corner. Maybe we'll start electing some new Democrats...