Comments on: Senator McCain Says No To Torture

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:05:22 +0000

I think he was more than a little annoyed that the Hedgemony was trying to polish the Shrubbery’s image at the expense of other people, many of whom are in the Navy and would have been complaining to McCain.

The other thing is that if torture works, they are saying the “confession” McCain gave was true, and he told the North Vietnamese everything he knew when he was tortured. That is an implication that really pisses off former POWs.

I think he is still angry over the primary challenge launched by the Tea Party whackoes in his Senate reelection and the lack of respect from the Republican Party. He went along with a lot of crap that Bush pulled, and got nothing in return.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:13:53 +0000

*shrug* None of the rightwing retards listen to me either. So what’s new? Same old club… preaching to the choir.

I don’t give McCain a lot of credit actually. If he really had any integrity and gut’s, he would have said it years ago when it was really necessary. Obviously, he decided ass-kissing the lunatics and running for Prez on deluded lies was more important. And again… what’s new about that?

And it won’t make much difference anyway. The lunatics will just ignore McCain and throw him under a bus. It’s always what they do when someone breaks ranks and has a momentary honesty and/or reality lapse. *shrug*

I guess he’s decided that he won’t be Prez now, so… what the hell? The truth can’t hurt now. Well… a minor fraction of truth at any rate. I won’t hold my breath for the rest.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:29:24 +0000

I really appreciate the fact that he called out some of those making the claims for the efficacy of torture. When Cheney and his fifth draft deferment, Liz, get air time to make these claim it really rubs me the wrong way.

I want the guilty punished. I’m sick and tired of people screwing up real investigations and intelligence work because they are looking for a “magic bullet”, a “quick fix”, a shortcut, rather than doing the job.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:11:41 +0000

Kudos to Sen. McCain. On the one hand, I’m glad he’s not president… yes, he would in fact be worse than Obama, for several reasons I won’t go into here. But somebody who has actually experienced torture in the real world, someone with credibility on the usually extremist side of the aisle, needs to say these things directly to the U.S. Senate. Nothing else has any hope of heading off the shame of Americans practicing torture… sorry; I won’t mince words; it’s torture… against people who have undergone not one shred of due process of law, domestic or international.