As happens occasionally, a couple of stories got mixed up and I’m not sure how to straighten them out.
Trying to end a protest by dissident Senate Republicans, the White House says it’s confident it can reach a compromise on proposed rules for interrogating terror suspects.
“The simple act of teaching a child to read or an adult to read has the capacity to transform nations and yield the peace we all want,” the president said at the White House Conference on Global Literacy being hosted in New York by the first lady. “You can’t realize the blessings of liberty if you can’t read a ballot.”
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., one of the Republicans not satisfied with the White House proposal, said he was committed to working out a deal but insisted that the United States must hold the moral high ground.
Bush, who lately has been trying to turn the election-year debate away from the unpopular war in Iraq and toward a broader war on terrorism, plans to spend much of the next seven weeks campaigning for fellow Republicans.
McCain, as well as Senate Armed Services Chairman John Warner, R-Va., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., say that would redefine the broader legal understanding of the conventions in the international community.
“It’s just as simple as that,” Bush said. “To be a productive worker you have to be able to read the manual.”
“It’s provided invaluable information that has saved lives of Americans,” he said. “And, surely, there is a way of finding a way forward that would permit this program to continue and, at the same time, do it in a way that is both respectful of our law and Constitution and our international obligations.”
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