McCain to Trump: Waterboarding won’t be reinstated

WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | November 19, 2016 6:32 pm | AP

[COBOL2Java]

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) — A leading Republican voice on national security matters said Saturday he doesn’t care what President-elect Donald Trump says, the United States will not reinstate waterboarding.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said at the Halifax International Security Forum that any attempt to bring back harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, would quickly be challenged in court.

“I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do or anybody else wants to do. We will not waterboard. We will not do it,” McCain said to applause during a panel discussion.

[right way right]

Actually John, there are other methods anyway.

[wastedyears]

FUJM

[Let's Roll]

Trump has been busy but would have eventually gotten around to little Johnnie. Not too smart that he called attention to himself - now it will be sooner.

[contrarian]

I have heard that there are medicines that can make it look like a heart attack, particularly if the person is old and decrepit , like JOHN.

[DBG8489]

Most who make that claim have never been on the board.

They know not of what they speak.

[P-Marlowe]

You’re just a pissant senator from a small state....

Yeah, he should try running in a big state. Like California.

[rfp1234]

Who needs to advertise what interrogation techniques they’ll use? This is freaking war. Maybe an interrogator will be wiping sweat off the suspect terrorist’s face with a towel, and an attendant may accidentally spill a drink on the towel.
Or not.

[Rome2000]

McCain is a senile LOSER!

[Rome2000]

McCain is a senile LOSER!

[Rome2000]

McCain is a senile LOSER!

[Rome2000]

McCain is a senile LOSER!

[Rome2000]

McCain is a senile LOSER!

[dp0622]

I’m surprised the North Vietnamese didn’t just let him go because he’s so annoying.

He is a POW and deserves our respect, at least out of respect to the military folk on here.

Now if THEY dont respect him, then it’s open season on him :)

[VeniVidiVici]

McCains a dumbass. Is he trying to stay relevant? Who the hell is even talking about waterboarding?

[lee martell]

We’ll talk about it, John, we’ll talk about it.
How much federal funding are you asking for that special interest project, again?

[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

Is this all part of the GOPe #BetterWay ?

And so it begins...

treachery from within, and Trump hasn’t even started

all the usual suspects lining up in formation against DJT.

[Louis Foxwell]

There are others who were at HH who claim he was not kept with the other prisoners, was used to broadcast radio programming against the US, capitulated on day one, and more. Some have said his injury occurred during his crash landing. There are always stories.
He is, by any measure, a summer patriot who puts on the attitude of a hardened soldier but is little more than a hateful mountebank.
Just as te Lord stirred the pot to bring Trump into our presidency, God prevented McCain from receiving an honor to which he was not entitled.

[Eleutheria5]

Aww, dang.

[Eleutheria5]

And if that doesn’t work, we can try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLgjIT-JAtg

[Eleutheria5]

As a last ditch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFuFm0m2wj0