[No Longer Free State]

McCain's an idiot if he thinks this is going to help his chances of becoming president.

[DTogo]

Good! Another nail in the McCain '08 Campaign coffin.

[Fenris6]

Stupid idea. There's a suitcase nuke planted in NYC. We catch the perp who set it up, but can't torture him to devulge the location beofere we lose a city. And I guess sleep deprivation is "torture" now too.

Don't bother running for president, McCain.

[moehoward]

The no-torture wording, ......"cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment"...

Can't wait to see what qualifies as "cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment".

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

He has been brainwashed in 'Nam. His thinking is a little bit addled.

He needs to resign and go to a nursing home. After all, this is the "Be kind to dumb animal week!"

[Pukin Dog]

At least we know the old fool aint running for President.

[indianrightwinger]

What makes me really sick in the stomach is not just the provision but also the fact that there is no political price to pay for promoting this disgusting provision.

When will people really wakeup and smell the threat of terrorism?

[Texas Eagle]

McCain vows torture ban in (all) Senate bills

Dammit. How else can we make them stop spending so much money!

[Zeroisanumber]

Americans don't use torture, so codifying it into law should be no problem.

[EGPWS]

Speaking from the Senate floor, McCain said, "If necessary - and I sincerely hope it is not - I and the co-sponsors of this amendment will seek to add it to every piece of important legislation voted on in the Senate until the will of a substantial bipartisan majority in both houses of Congress prevails. Let no one doubt our determination."

Taxation and loss of personal freedom then apparently isn't a concern for Senator MCain.

[river rat]

Maybe the good Senator should tell us what he did or revealed under torture by the Communists in Vietnam......or perhaps tell us what the Communists recorded of Mr. McCain's behavior while a prisoner, which they haven't released but informed him of its existence...

SOMETHING must explain McCain's and Kerry's despicable behavior during the hearings on Vietnam's POW/MIA Senate "Hearing"...

McCain is compromised and still responding to his "inquisitors" in my honest opinion..

Semper Fi

[mrsmith]

Then DEFINE TORTURE!!!!!!

His bill leaves it up to any judge to decide any time that anything is "torture".

Oh, and it bans "degrading" treatment- what can't a judge do with that?

The sniveling idiot.

[Anselma]

"Let no one doubt our determination."

It's not your determination that's in doubt, John.

[isthisnickcool]

(A FEW YEARS BACK. IN AN OPERATING ROOM)

Doctor 1: Uh oh, we are going to have to take a good chunk of his temple out.

Doctor 2: This guy is a Senator. I hope he retires because this may mess his head up.

McCain (regaining consciousness): I would have had them if not....

Doctor 1 (snapping fingers): Senator McCain! Hello. Can you see me?

McCain: For the strawberries! I would have had them but for the strawberries.

Doctor 2 (screaming): Eiiiiii!!!!!!!!!

Doctor 1: Gads! He's grabbed your crotched and is playing with your privates! He' trying to roll them around in his hand!

McCain: They laughed at me and made jokes, but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and with, with geometric logic, that, that a duplicate key to the Senate wardroom icebox did exist......

Doctor 1: Run!!!!!

[mysterio]

Not a McCain fan, but he's right on this one. Torture is against Geneva conventions. Close the "enemy combatant" loophole. We are America, and we are above treating POWs like that.

Never thought I'd agree with McCain on anything, especially after his anti-tobacco boondoggle in the late 90s that led to a regressive "settlement" tax on lower income smokers. But when you are right, you're right, and any form of torture should not have the American stamp on it.

I know I disagree with most of you on this, and I do so respectfully.

[popdonnelly]

If the bill doesn't closely define what is considered torture, then I'm against it. We don't need another statute with vague phrases in it that any lawyer can play with. I'm opposed to most forms of torture, but this is ridiculous.

[shrinkermd]

Watch McCain go overboard on this issue. He is receiving little or no support for his presidential run. They blame it on his age but he bears grudges and can't handle his wish for some sort of cheap revenge.

[GloriaJane]

McCain's the flower of the Senate....

He's a blooming idiot!

[Virginia Queen]

McCain's brain is in la la land. I understand how he suffered - and why he cannot forget it. But, he must understand that torture can be a real effective tool in war and other situations. His brain has turned to mush.
Tell you what, if I thought I could save 100 people by making somebody hurt a bit in order to find out how to help, I would do it in a minute.

[OldFriend]

Interesting that McCain identifies with the terrorists.