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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My vote is Trump's side.
IIRC, waterboarding resulted in the location of OBL.
Waaaa... Ahmed Mohammed might feel uncomfortable with a little water running down his face. WAAAAA!!!!!
Enhanced interrogation works, if done correctly.
Just torture for torture’s sake does not.
I bet McCain will support Cruz when Bush drops out. Cruz’s answer to waterboarding was embarrassing.
The Geneva convention applies in declared wars doesn’t it?
So tired of those people in Washington. So completely out of touch and corrupt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/on-waterboarding-lets-stick-to-the-facts/2011/11/15/gIQAHHiiON_blog.html
On waterboarding: Let’s stick to the facts
Who really cares what the has been McCain says?
why would interrogators bother to use techniques that didn’t work?.. of course it works.. McQueeg is a moron
FUJMcNuts!
So to prove or disprove this theory can we waterboard McCain then ask him if it works?
McCain is insane in my opinion.
Lay down John. Lets try it on you.
McCain will never know what waterboarding can do . . . the Vietnamese didn’t need to use it on him, he was ready to spill from day one.
The people who were involved have said many times that certain actions were forestalled or interdicted because of the information given through the use of waterboarding.
In addition, there is no permanent psychological or physiological harm done to the individual waterboarded. We use the same type of event to train SERE personnel.
McCain can go back to his retirement home in AZ and pickle himself for all I care.
Anyone who runs for president should give up His senate seat. They used to
John mbb should be ashamed. He ushered in obama
Took the words right out of my mouth.
"Anything" includes the truth.
The key is, never ask a question whose answer you cannot verify. False answers get more waterboarding.
Sign ze papers, old man.
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