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Retired general: Torture worked on John McCain, that's why they call him 'Songbird John'
The Washington Times ^ | 05-10-2018 | Naomi Lim

Posted on 05/10/2018 9:19:22 PM PDT by Kevin in California

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney on Thursday referred to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., as "Songbird John" and said torture worked on the former POW.

McInerney, during an interview on Fox Business Network, was slamming McCain's refusal to support CIA director nominee Gina Haspel over her past work at the agency involving enhanced interrogation techniques that are considered torture.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain; songbird; songbirdjohn
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Ouch! This is certain to leave a mark.
1 posted on 05/10/2018 9:19:22 PM PDT by Kevin in California
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To: Kevin in California

Whoa!


2 posted on 05/10/2018 9:26:28 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Kevin in California

3 posted on 05/10/2018 9:28:16 PM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: Kevin in California

Oh boy... the wee man, lord McCain has been ‘tagged’!!!!


4 posted on 05/10/2018 9:28:43 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Kevin in California

Ok so he was shot down, captured and he sang. And he was out of the war for five years. So he is a “war hero” exactly how ?


5 posted on 05/10/2018 9:29:23 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Kevin in California

The fact is most people when tortured give up what they know to make the pain stop.


6 posted on 05/10/2018 9:31:43 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Kevin in California

Except of course he wasn’t tortured. His injuries were from his plane crash

He was well taken care of and sang like the canary he is


7 posted on 05/10/2018 9:33:10 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Kevin in California

..........I believe McInerney ten times over relative to John McCain who f’d around then ditched the woman who had stood by him faithfully during his years of being in prison in Hanoi.

McCain is the lowest of the low. He should appropriately be buried 60’ below the surface instead of 6’.


8 posted on 05/10/2018 9:33:20 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Kevin in California
Looks like McCain's attacks against Gina Haspel has ticked some people off.
9 posted on 05/10/2018 9:35:35 PM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: libh8er

So? John Kerry was in Vietnam too! And he was awarded 3 Purple Hearts (although it is strange that he has three decorations for being wounded in battle but I have yet to see a scar from any of the injuries. Perhaps they were strange types of injuries that made his face elongated to the point it looks like a horse’s head.


10 posted on 05/10/2018 9:38:05 PM PDT by TonyM (UPS)
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To: Nifster

I suspect they threatened to return him to the US where he’d have to fly again and do his job...that was the torture!


11 posted on 05/10/2018 9:38:13 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: allendale

He may have been tortured for a first couple of years, but I can him also being turned with promises of absent of torture and help with running for office.

It would certainly explain his pro-commie stance votes over the years.


12 posted on 05/10/2018 9:39:32 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cults.)
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To: libh8er

Go look at the images of the various POWs who spent a minimum of three years in this status, and then look at the body-scale image of McCain walking off the plane. They fed him and ensured his comforts.


13 posted on 05/10/2018 9:46:54 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Kevin in California

He never stopped singing. He’s been working for the enemy ever since.


14 posted on 05/10/2018 9:47:48 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: bigbob

And his flying history was very poor


15 posted on 05/10/2018 9:57:56 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Kevin in California

Yeah I saw Charles Payne later on backing away from that statement like it was Kryptonite. You got to wonder who’s putting pressure on the network because they support John McCain


16 posted on 05/10/2018 9:58:03 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: allendale

Nope. That is not true. I have met tgese gentleman and tgey stand together every year to tell their story to activevduty. They are not lying infront ifveach other they are not conspiring and certsinly not for tge reason to deceive

They most certsinly did not give up. They limp around some with their thoracic muscles torn permanently from tge stretching.

They did NOT sing. And they did not come out anything but thin malnourished

So prove your ignorant accusation or apologize


17 posted on 05/10/2018 10:12:57 PM PDT by stanne
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To: allendale

Nope. That is not true. I have met these gentleman and they stand together every year to tell their story to active duty. They are not lying in front of each other. They are not conspiring and certInly not for the reason to deceive

They most certsinly did not give up. They limp around some with their thoracic muscles torn permanently from the stretching.

They did NOT sing. And they did not come out anything but thin malnourished

So prove your ignorant accusation or apologize


18 posted on 05/10/2018 10:17:03 PM PDT by stanne
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To: libh8er

He’s only a war hero when the media, the Left, the Dem’s need him to be, to support their agenda. Other than that, he’s a disgusting war monger, Republican.


19 posted on 05/10/2018 10:21:24 PM PDT by qaz123
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He never stopped singing. He’s been working for the enemy ever since.
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McCain is the biggest traitor in US history, a real life Manchurian Candidate.

20 posted on 05/10/2018 10:21:43 PM PDT by sailor76 ( TRUMP, is still my hero.)
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