Posted on 12/01/2005 2:46:38 PM PST by concretebob
A congressman just back for Iraq says that the troops he spoke to overwhelmingly oppose a bill sponsored by Sen. John McCain that would restrict U.S. interrogators in the kind of techniques they can use while grilling terrorist suspects.
While visiting with GIs on the frontline this week, Rep. Jack Kingston said he talked to the enlisted men who deal with prisoners of war.
The Georgia Republican stressed that soldiers also told him that the U.S. guards who broke the law in the Abu Ghraib scandal last year should be punished. Kingston said that he will report his findings to the House in a "Dear Colleague" letter that would contain the information on the McCain amendment
"They feel that the McCain amendment is not an accurate portrayal of anything that is going on and they are really strongly against it and somewhat insulted by it," Kingston tells the Hill newspaper.
"[The terrorist suspects] aren’t people who have committed white collar crime," he said. "You do want to get information from them.”
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