John McCain rips GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann on waterboarding

The New York Daily News ^ | 2011-11-15

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The Arizona lawmaker—who was tortured himself while a prisoner of war in Vietnam — said the controversial practice was both illegal and ineffective.

BY ALIYAH SHAHID

Republican Sen. John McCain is ripping presidential candidates in his party who insist waterboarding is an effective technique for interrogating suspected terrorists.

The Arizona lawmaker—who was tortured himself while a prisoner of war in Vietnam — said the controversial practice was both illegal and ineffective on Monday evening.

“Very disappointed by statements at SC GOP debate supporting waterboarding,” he tweeted. “Waterboarding is torture.”

McCain, who ran for President in 2008, elaborated on CNN later, arguing, “If you put enough physical pain on somebody, they will tell you whatever they think that you want to hear in order for the pain to stop.”

The lawmaker was speaking specifically to remarks made by former pizza business magnate Herman Cain and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann at Saturday’s Republican presidential debate.

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...McCain suggested endorsing the technique was hypocritical.

“Ask any military lawyer; ask any person who knows about the Geneva conventions that we're signatories to. We actually prosecuted Japanese war criminals specifically for the act of waterboarding against Americans,” he said.

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ONLY regarding the torture he endured ~ not the enhanced interrogation techniques used here. We don’t torture people ~ we kill them or take them prisoner. Waterboarding simply isn’t torture, and that’s not what the North Vietnamese did to him.