Posted on 12/08/2005 9:37:35 AM PST by Kaslin
Sen. John McCain claimed Wednesday that the U.S. is still torturing terrorist detainees, even as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits with European leaders to assure them that the practice is banned under U.S. law.
"We've got to stop this torture," McCain told radio host Don Imus.
"If you torture somebody, they're going to tell you what they think you want to know in order to make the pain stop," he complained.
The Republican maverick said the U.S. can't win the propaganda war "if people believe throughout the world that you are practicing cruel, inhuman, degrading mistreatment or torture on the people that you capture."
"Right now," McCain complained, "we have prisons, apparently, set up in different places in the world where we're keeping people for years."
His comments come as Dr. Rice meets with European leaders to assure them that claims about ongoing torture are baseless.
"The United States does not condone torture," she told a German audience on Tuesday. "It is against U.S. law to be involved in torture or conspiracy to commit torture. And it is also against U.S. international obligations and the President has made it very clear that U.S. personnel will operate within U.S. law and within our international obligations."
Rice also indicated, however, that interrogations conducted in the foreign prisons referenced by McCain have been productive, telling reporters, "The intelligence we gathered has helped to stop terrorist attacks and saved innocent lives in Europe - as well as in the United States and other countries."
O`l Songbird at it again. This guy sang like a canary in `Nam. Guess torture works huh Johnnie boy
Okay, I'm willing to trade McCain and Chaffee for Lieberman and a draft choice to be named later.
I think he's getting senile.
McCain is torturing us...
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There's a lot of that going around in DC.. Must be the water.
-"The intelligence we gathered has helped to stop terrorist attacks and saved innocent lives"-
That's all I need to know.
McCain keeps saying that torture doesn't work. But in his autobiography he admitted that he told his interrogators some information that they wanted to know. And he didn't
"make up" what they wanted to hear. He told them the truth.
Hey John ! Guess what.......Americans would prefer to see terrorists tortured!!!! Now if we could just get these idiot politicians to stop torturing us with their continual verbal garbage, we would be doing something!
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
I'd welcome Lieberman any time
"If you torture somebody, they're going to tell you what they think you want to know in order to make the pain stop,"
Maybe if his wife Cindy hadn't hoarded all the pain meds...
Congressman George Hansen
Was declared innocent by the U. S. Supreme Court
after being shackled in torture and serving four years in prison for
alleged IRS and federal election infractions. http://www.uhuh.com/reports/hansen/hanhurts.htm
Did torture turn him into a terrorist? I'm sick of RINOs sucking up to Imus.
The Republican Howard Dean.
Cindy Sheehan could take lessons from media-whore McCain.
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