Because he refuses to accept torture as an acceptable means of handling prisoners. Because he's adamant about following the Geneva conventions.
I read posts here from conservatives saying that torture is necessary because the terrorists are brutal and that liberals who complain about the treatment of prisoners are traitors.
So you must think McCain also falls into this category - no?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/12/congress.terrorism.ap/index.html
2006-09-13 03:22:11 · 11 answers · asked by Dastardly 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
To kingstubb; Why should he extend his torture stance to abortion? Abortion is a legally protected practice, torture is illegal.
Using your reasoning, you could say that Bush/ Cheney don't extend their views on protecting life to the torture issue...
2006-09-13 03:32:32 · update #1
The fact that many conservatives don't trust McCain actually speaks very well for his character.
2006-09-13 03:30:44 · answer #1 · answered by brian2412 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't like McCain and he may be a RINO (Republican in Name Only) but I haven't seen anything in his character to classify him as a traitor in the specific definition of the word. I don't believe physical torture is a reliable way of getting information, but making people uncomfortable is not recognized as torture. Besides, we are dealing with a special case since our detainees are mainly "irregulars". None of these people were captured in the military uniform of a specific nation and the Geneva Convention does not cover irregulars. If you are out of uniform, you can be dealt with as the capturing nation pleases (generally you are shot as a spy). That said, I don't believe that torture is a reliable way of obtaining true information so I would hesitate to use it anyway (and I am a conservative). I do not mind, however, if the prisoners are made uncomfortable, deprived of any sort of comfort, blasted with music offensive to them or mildly neglected so I do object to liberal who want to supply them with a "walled country club". Granted after a year of detainment, I think they should just be shot as spies anyway and put an end to it.
2006-09-13 03:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by Crusader1189 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If Bush had the balls to serve in Vietnam like Mc Cain did, then there is a really good chance we wouldn't be wasting billions of tax payers dollars in that sand pit called Iraq. Why? Because then Bush would know the horrors of war. Instead he hid behind his mommies skirt. If anybody thinks McCain is a wimp, then they are pathetic and as un American as they go.
By the way, did you know that Mc Cain was a P.O.W.?
2006-09-13 03:37:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he is just not a conservative. Among other things, he fails to extend the protections against torture to the abortion issue.
He was also a leading figure in the Savings and Loan debacles in the 1980s.
But being against torture does not make him sickening to conservatives.
2006-09-13 03:29:08 · answer #4 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i don't thoroughly believe Bob Barr, he has additionally turn flopped. He went after Clinton with a vengeance, yet he's not speaking approximately impeaching Bush. i ought to care much less approximately parasitism exceedingly while leaders wreck the regulation. Conservatives have their exchange and blew it while Ron Paul ran. Now look at Ron Paul. he is going after the Federal Reserve economic company, speaking approximately real subject concerns like our sunken dollar etc.... lots of you laughed at Ron Paul and counted him out and supported all of those pretend republicans working who could not inform you a think of approximately economics, the international economic company. Mc Cain a dealer? tell me what Republican quite cares with regard to the easy human beings, tell me what Democrat? McCain has replaced his genuine colorations merely like Obama. God help us.
2016-10-14 23:10:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES
Most people merely tolerate McCain out of respect to the real POW's and fallen comrades.
Go big Red Go
2006-09-13 04:00:02 · answer #6 · answered by 43 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't care about the torture thing, there is just something about John McCain I do not like, more over I do not trust him. I would vote in Joe Lieberman before I would vote McCain. The only way McCain will get my vote is if he is running against hillary. And will even depend on who is on the independent ticket at that.
2006-09-13 03:26:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes. He's an opportunist.
Geneva conventions applies to how one country's military treats another country's military when members of it are captured. Are terrorists a member of a certain country's military??
2006-09-13 03:25:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Youre either with us or against us right? Well seems that half or the population of the US are terrorists.
2006-09-13 03:24:57 · answer #9 · answered by Special Olympian 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He thinks for himself. Not a valued trait, at least by the GOP.
2006-09-13 03:53:51 · answer #10 · answered by hgheartland 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋