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McCain to GOP: ‘Waterboarding Is Torture’
National Journal ^ | Nov.14, 2011 | Shane Goldmacher

Posted on 11/14/2011 5:56:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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McCain said he was "very disappointed" that some Republicans defended waterboarding

John McCain is a jacksss.

A January 2006 CIA Predator attack in the northern Pakistani village of Damadola, where U.S. intelligence believed al-Qaeda's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was meeting with a group of extremists. At least four al-Qaeda members were killed in the attack, but Zawahiri was not present, and 18 civilians—including five children—were reportedly killed, setting off angry demonstrations across Pakistan against the U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said: "It's terrible when innocent people are killed; we regret that. But we have to do what we think is necessary to take out al-Qaeda, particularly the top operatives."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing

21 posted on 11/14/2011 6:04:28 PM PST by South40 (To Tear Down Herman Cain is to aid Mitt Romney & the Marxist Kenyan)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ll tell you what torture is - being in the position of having to vote for John McCain or accept an avowed socialist islamist sympathizer whose main goal seems to be the dismantling/transformation of America. That’s torture.


22 posted on 11/14/2011 6:05:04 PM PST by SuzyQue
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To: Free ThinkerNY

That should get him the full lineup of Sunday programs.

Pray for America


23 posted on 11/14/2011 6:06:50 PM PST by bray (Take the Cain Train off the Plantation)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

IMO, any combatant who flagrantly violates the Geneva Convention - terrorism, no uniforms, targeting civilians, hostages, etc. - has NO rights, human or otherwise. Therefore, anything you do to the creature is perfectly legal.

This is the attitude that will quash terrorism.


24 posted on 11/14/2011 6:08:24 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Can’t believe I voted for this putz.


25 posted on 11/14/2011 6:08:48 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I would say that any definition of torture would have to inlude acts that you would never consider doing voluntarily.

Our troops volunteer for water board training. - uncomfortable but not torture

Would you volunteer to have your fingernails torn off? No? torture.

Get the idea?


26 posted on 11/14/2011 6:09:15 PM PST by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed <--- oops, see?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If it saves innocent American lives and/or prevents terrorism I don’t care if it is torchure.


27 posted on 11/14/2011 6:09:27 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Gene Eric
McCain was never waterboarded by his North VN friends. He doesn't know anything about waterboarding. He is blowing smoke through his hat, posing as a moral authority because he was tortured by other means, as if they are equivalent. They are not.

This is a good illustration of the dangerously misleading idea that a "victim" is somehow in a position to lecture people who are not victims. It is a bad idea. A very bad idea, and is pervasive among the practitioners of the western liberal whorehouse.

28 posted on 11/14/2011 6:11:03 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: parksstp
Not quite the psychological fear of drowning, but more like the esophageal reflex that keeps amniotic fluid out of developing lungs before we are born.

It is exceedingly painful but it works.

It's all natural, and you can be trained to deal with it effectively.

.The fear arises out of ignorance.

29 posted on 11/14/2011 6:12:48 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Conservatives to McCain...

Having to vote for McCain over Obama is torture.

Waterboarding would have been a walk in the park in comparison!


30 posted on 11/14/2011 6:14:20 PM PST by Randy Larsen (Hang in there Herman, conservatives love you!)
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To: martin_fierro
Good evening.

Can’t believe I voted for this putz.

You didn't. You voted for Sarah Palin.

8^)

5.56mm

31 posted on 11/14/2011 6:15:07 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: MC CAIN; All

No John...

Meghan is torture.


32 posted on 11/14/2011 6:15:19 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Water boarding, (Forced Neti Potting) MIGHT be “torture” under the commie liberals’ new definition of “torture” (Along with playing heavy metal music too loud, not allowing the terrorists to get at least 8 hours of sleep, denying the terrorists access to HBO and Showtime, etc.) but I still wish Juan McCain would just go the hell away. He’s too old for this sh*t and an embarassment to America. Somebody (Shemp Smith or Juan Williams?) said today that “waterboarding” is “unconstitutional”. Anybody know where I can find “waterboarding” in the U.S. Constitution? Only an uninformed, ignorant or very moronic “journalist” in Hawaii would think that “waterboarding” is “torture”.


33 posted on 11/14/2011 6:17:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Stop Government Greed Now!!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If John had been waterboarded in Nam instead of the physical torture they used against him, he wouldn’t have permanent infirmaties today.


34 posted on 11/14/2011 6:18:49 PM PST by umgud
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You’re in the wrong party, Juan.

Listening to you and your pathetic daughter is torture.


35 posted on 11/14/2011 6:21:43 PM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

CONSERVATIVES to McCain AND the GOP:

Screw you. We don’t need you telling us what anything is.


36 posted on 11/14/2011 6:26:14 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Free ThinkerNY

FUJM


37 posted on 11/14/2011 6:26:49 PM PST by dfwgator (I stand with Herman Cain.)
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To: M Kehoe

Ah yes. Now I remember.

38 posted on 11/14/2011 6:26:51 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Waterboarding is torture

Yeah, so?

39 posted on 11/14/2011 6:26:57 PM PST by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
McCain has been torturing Americans with his presents in the senate for how long now.
40 posted on 11/14/2011 6:28:29 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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