Stop it with the Maverick BS already

[Upchurch]

OMG. I finally had a chance to watch the debate tonight. Even knowing it was coming, I was still surprised how she over used that term.

Someone, please make her stop.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

OMG. I finally had a chance to watch the debate tonight. Even knowing it was coming, I was still surprised how she over used that term.

Someone, please make her stop.

I would but my Maverick needs a new starter.

 

[varwoche]

Again, this is not correct. The Army Field Manual has never been applied to any other branch except the army, so passage of this bill, ironically, would have been the exception. *All of the military and persons held in US custody* is subject to the DTA.

I'm referring to the fact that McCain backtracked from his original position.

In the spring of 2005, McCain began the process of formulating legislation to prevent a use of such extreme techniques and some of the sanctioned abuses at Abu Ghraib. Initially, McCain's staff proposed and circulated a bill remarkably similar to the Democratic language McCain now opposes. In a draft proposal, dated May 17, 2005, and obtained by TIME, McCain's staff specifically outlined a plan to make the Army Field Manual "the basis for a uniform standard adhered to by all elements of the United States Government."