A Penguin in the Orchard

Disgusting Irony

A Dangerous Veto Threat

Today, amazingly, America finds itself embroiled in the same kind of debate that Iran–one of the three nation’s Bush admonished as a part of the “axis of evil”– had three years ago when hardliners in the conservative Guardian Council repeatedly vetoed a version of a bill banning the torture of prisoners that had been pushed through the parliament by moderate backers of President Mohammad Khatami.

It’s sickening to see that the Bush administration has placed us in this position by threatening to veto a war funding bill containing anti-torture language.