Posted on 02/09/2016 5:48:35 AM PST by doldrumsforgop
Sen. John McCain Monday slammed Donald Trump's comments over the weekend praising the merits of waterboarding, saying that that anyone who claims the extreme interrogation technique is a way to get useful information is lying.
"This is a near-death experience," McCain said on Fox News' "Outnumbered" program, which his daughter, Meghan, co-hosts. "They will tell that person who is administering that anything they want to hear."
During Saturday night's GOP debate and on several Sunday morning shows, Trump commented that if he becomes president, he would "absolutely authorize" waterboarding or "a hell of a lot worse."
"They're chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East," Trump told CNN's Jake Tapper on the "State of the Union" program. "They're chopping heads off, they laugh at us when they hear we're not going to approve waterboarding and then they'll have a James Foley and others where they cut off their heads." McCain, who himself was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, pointed out that the Geneva convention prohibits the technique, and there has been a 93-3 vote in the Senate to stop it.
Further, the Arizona Republican issued an official statement on Monday on the topic, quoting several experts who call the practice's outcome dangerous for American military personnel.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed! It worked on the hairy t shirt stretching mass murderer now, didn’t it?
Yeah, ask him what secrets he gave to the VC.
Zay simply state that you have not been mistreated in any way during your stay with us. Now sign ze papers!
And be used for propaganda purposes. . .like the Navy guys captured by the Iranians.
A4. . .but your point stands.
Sorry about the F4 thing. I worked on those and must have had a PTSD moment...67-71...Semper Fi.
My fraternity hell week had worse stuff, than waterboarding.
Our troops are trained to withstand waterboarding, and come out just fine.
If it is mentally traumatic for muslim terrorists, great. That is the idea.
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