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Sunday, December 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Democratic complicity in Bush's torture regimen

With one extremist Bush policy after the next, congressional Democratic leaders are revealed to be the administration's key enablers and supporters.

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Sunday, December 9, 2007 08:38 AM

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He grandstanded about it for three days, taking the reins on the issue. Then he promptly signed onto the Military Commissions Act which gave Bush infinite power to torture, to decide what constitutes torture, and to suspend the centuries-old fundamental law of habeas corpus.

All hail the moderate maverick McCain!

What McCain did was absurd, but how many Democrats have been as outspoken against torture and waterboarding as he has? And how many of them did more than he did to stop the Bush program?

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