2007-11-02 10:43:42 · 11 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/News/PressReleases/af35d7c1-9bba-436e-a7e2-8b7ce34adb74.htm
2007-11-02 10:46:55 · update #1
If John McCain doesn't know what torture is, nobody does.
2007-11-02 11:06:23 · update #2
McCain, a former Naval aviator who was tortured in his 5 1/2 years in a North Vietnamese prison, responded: "Mayor Giuliani just contradicted himself because anybody who has experience in warfare knows that waterboarding is by any definition torture and cannot be condoned. I do not know which crisis the mayor may have been talking about. My experience goes back to the Cuban missile crisis and every conflict we've been in since."
Then, McCain broadened his broadside to also castigate Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, and Thompson, the former Tennessee senator, as well as Giuliani on Iraq. He argued they were "nowhere to be seen when we were fighting a war with the wrong strategy."
2007-11-02 11:58:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anyone knows from experience it would be John McCain former prisoner of war and probably tortured at some point. I am also not convinced that the Abu Ghraib prison stuff wasn't sanctioned by someone in the Administration.
2007-11-02 17:53:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is no other Senator who can best determine what torture is. I can tell you though it will not be removed from the military training for Escape and Evasion classes. It is only considered torture when done to and EPW. I have said that should they consider waterboarding as torture and not interrogating techniques it should be eliminated.
2007-11-02 17:56:26 · answer #3 · answered by rance42 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IMHO, yes. From what I understand, it's the job of Congress to decide once and for all if water-boarding is torture and so far I haven't heard of them making that call.
2007-11-02 17:56:23 · answer #4 · answered by socrates 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely.
2007-11-02 17:49:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
2007-11-02 17:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by gone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
How can any rational human being possibly think that simulating drowning another human being isn't torture?
2007-11-02 18:42:36 · answer #7 · answered by huduuluv 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who thinks it isn't torture should try being subjected to it. Then see what they think about it.
2007-11-02 17:53:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
One of the only things he IS right about.
2007-11-02 17:53:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
that idiot did.nt learn anything in the pow camp.now he wants to run as president.if he becomes president we;ll have to call our military the pansies unit.because he;s the biggest pansy of them all.even john kerry thinks so.mccain, is one of those people who are afraid to say the right things.even if he thinks and knows it;s wrong.if bush says it law he;ll agree.we already one of them in the white house.mccain is george bush all over again.makes me think that when he was a pow.maybe he told secrets to the enemy.mccain is another coward.
2007-11-02 18:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by bigjon5555 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋