Saint John...

Your halo is slipping.

It's bad enough when chickenhawk pols who never faced combat are pro-torture, but it's far worse when a man who experienced and condemned torture makes a pretense of opposing it and then caves. It is unforgivable for him to then claim he did nothing of the kind and pat himself on the back for his 'principled' stand. McCain is a boot-licking suck up without a shred of integrity.

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Funny, last year McCain said water boarding WAS torture

It is ironic, to say the least, that John McCain wrote an article for Newsweek in which he made it quite clear that water boarding IS torture. And I quote John McCain:

"For instance, there has been considerable press attention to a tactic called "water boarding," where a prisoner is restrained and blindfolded while an interrogator pours water on his face and into his mouth—causing the prisoner to believe he is being drowned. He isn't, of course; there is no intention to injure him physically. But if you gave people who have suffered abuse as prisoners a choice between a beating and a mock execution, many, including me, would choose a beating. The effects of most beatings heal. The memory of an execution will haunt someone for a very long time and damage his or her psyche in ways that may never heal. In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. I believe that it is torture, very exquisite torture."

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