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Call it coercion. It's uncomfortable and frightening. Torture is having your fingernails pulled out, fingers cut off, cigarette burns to the soles of your feet, your genitals or your ass.

Some of the things the NVA did to our men. Torture is hanging by a rope tied to to your hands behind your back. Torture is being in a cage submerged in a river with only your nose above water. Then there are the beatings, starvation and sleep deprivation...without end. And of course there were the speeches by Jane Fonda ....

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Some of the things the NVA did to our men.

You know John McCain's opinion of waterboarding?

Then I am astonished that you would think such a—such a torture[waterboarding] would be inflicted on anyone in our—who we are held captive and anyone could believe that that’s not torture. It’s in violation of the Geneva Conventions. It’s in violation of existing law. And, Governor, let me tell you, if we’re going to get the high ground in this world and we’re going to be America that we have cherished and loved for more than 200 years, we’re not going to torture people. We’re not going to do what Pol Pot did. We’re not going to do what’s being done to Burmese monks as we speak. And I suggest that you talk to retired military officers and active-duty military officers like Colin Powell and others, and how in the world anybody could think that that kind of thing could be inflicted by Americans on people who are held in our custody is absolutely beyond me.
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