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."
McInsane-will-never-win-the-GOP-primaries ping
Don Anus and McCain are on an ongoing media love fest.
I think Anus in the Morning rotates Chris Dodd, John McCain and Joe Biden constantly.
Prove it, McCain. We'll wait patiently while you do.
John McCain: "Torture Worked on Me"
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/29/100012.shtml
Where are our fellow Freepers who think this moron would make a good presidential candidate?
Nobody doubts he was a great Vietnam War patriot who endured NVA imprisonment and maltreatment. It's also beginning to look like there's no doubt his war travails have left lingering mental affects.
This idiot spent 5 years being tortured in the Hanoi Hilton and is very sensitive to the way we are treating our POWs now.
He's dead wrong, but I understand where he's coming from.
Makes me really curious what he's up to - is he building a base to run as an independent? I don't think he has much of a chance in Republican primaries but he could do a lot of damage to Republicans in a 3-way race. He'd be the "savior" to the Democrats who aren't quite as far left as HRH or Howard Dean.
Read my lips Senator. I'll say it real slow so even your slow with can pick it up:
I ... DON'T ... CARE!!!
I DO condone torture, in fact, I don't even want these monsters captured so they can be pampered by the likes of you. I DO NOT want a law that essentially tells terrorists that they're going to have an easy time of it in a US prison.
And finally, I DO want you to SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!
how anybody could consider voting this guy in as President, is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY beyond me!!!
Read a thread a week ago about this great man and it almost made me puke!
If you haven't figured out what McCain IS by now, you never will. A political chameleon of the highest order. Anti-constitutionalist, and major opportunist, no matter what the cost to America.
Now he is working FOR THE TERRORISTS. FOR OUR ENEMIES. IMHO, a frontal lobotomy would solve his personal problem, which is very apparent.
Look real hard at what Washington has turned into. And start thinking real hard about 2006 and 2008.
Nobody tortured John McCain, the Fortunate Son, in Vietnam. They didn't have to.
"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.
Well, it worked for you Senator, no?
U.S. News and World Report - May 14, 1973:
"I think it was on the fourth day [after being shot down] that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size of a football . . . when I saw it, I said to the guard, 'O.K., get the officer' . . . an officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as 'The Bug.' He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, 'O.K., I'll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.'"
Link:
Brothers in 'Hilton' now are foes on the Hill (Sam Johnson Vs McCain)
Houston Chronicle ^ | December 7, 2005 | Michael Hedges
Posted on 12/07/2005 12:25:03 PM EST by johnmecainrino
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1535742/posts
"He's a childish little punk who only does what's best for him and what makes him feel good."
And we thought Tom Daschle was bad. At least he was correctly identified as a Democrate.
And the democrats just love nut cases. Look at how they swoon over Howard Dean.
I don't know about this, McCain has been torturing us for years now and we don't tell him we want him to be president.
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