Using veto to approve torture

Here's something worthy to write your congresspeople about, making sure they override any veto on this.

End the Abuse:
The amendment gives President Bush a chance at least to amend the record of abuse that will blot his legacy. Yet Mr. Bush is not inclined to accept this chance. Despite the mounting reaction from the Senate, the military establishment, the courts and courageous serving officers such as Capt. Ian Fishback, the president stubbornly digs his dishonorable hole deeper. The White House is leaning on Republican House members to kill or water down the McCain amendment; the president's spokesman even threatened a veto.

Let's be clear: Mr. Bush is proposing to use the first veto of his presidency on a defense bill needed to fund military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan so that he can preserve the prerogative to subject detainees to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. In effect, he threatens to declare to the world his administration's moral bankruptcy.