No Analysis Necessary

So the administration is letting out the word -- and Darth Cheney is working in the background to send the messsage -- that President Bush will veto the 2006 Pentagon authorization bill if it includes an amendment, being prepared by Republican senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and John Warner, that would:

• Bar the military from hiding prisoners from the Red Cross
• Prohibit cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees
• Use only interrogation techniques authorized in a U.S. Army field manual

That the administration would oppose these three provisions says it all. No further analysis is necessary.