torture supporters in the Senate

[topaz]

The McCain-Graham anti-torture amendment passed the Senate last night by a startling 90-9 margin.  Curiously, none of the articles I saw listed the nine senators who voted to continue torturing detainees.

Fortunately, senate.gov did post a roll call:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00249

Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Christopher Bond (R-MO)
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
James Inhofe (R-OK)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)

Comments

[sconstant.livejournal.com]

You haven't been listening. They'll stand in front of a backdrop repeatedly imprinted with "Keeping America Safe" and talk about the need to protect our country from terrorism and, almost more importantly, from those who would be soft on terrorism. Then they'll ask the reporter from the Rightist News Service for a question. He will ask, "How does it feel to be so courageously defending our nation?" It feels good, say these senators, modestly. Thus endeth the news conference.

[lady-mishegas.livejournal.com]

Which is just another way of saying, "The Geneva convention, that's for wimps," really.