Posted on 04/29/2007 8:56:02 PM PDT by freespirited
WALLACE: How would you fight the War on Terror differently than it's being fought now?
J. MCCAIN: I would probably announce the closing of Guantanamo Bay. I would move those detainees to Fort Leavenworth. I would announce we will not torture anyone.
I would announce that climate change is a big issue, because we've got some image problems in the world...
WALLACE: Senator, you talked about torture. Former CIA Director Tenet now says that the intelligence that they got from harsh interrogation techniques against some of these big Al Qaida types, like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — the intelligence they got from them using, reportedly, things like water-boarding, extreme temperatures, was more valuable than all the other CIA and FBI programs.
Were you wrong? ... Were you wrong to limit what CIA interrogators could do?
J. MCCAIN: A man I admire more than anyone else, General Jack Vessey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, battlefield commission, told me once — he said, "John, any intelligence information we might gain through the use of torture could never, ever counterbalance the image that it does — the damage that it does to our image in the world."
I agree with him. ... We cannot torture people and maintain our moral superiority in the world.
WALLACE: But when George Tenet says...
J. MCCAIN: I don't care what George Tenet says. I know what's right. I know what's morally right as far as America's behavior...
WALLACE: ... when George Tenet says we saved live through some of these techniques...
J. MCCAIN: I don't accept it. I don't accept that fundamental thesis, because it's never worked throughout history...
That's just a fundamental fact. And we've gotten a huge amount of misinformation as well as other information from these techniques.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
So much for legacy admissions to the Naval Academy, and an aviator, no less, IIRC, he graduated fifth from the bottom of the class.
What we see here is a total failure of the right. No one has the courage to propose anything on offense in the WOT. It's either keep on doing what we're doing, or take two steps backward as with McCain.
Yes, he included climate change in his WOT answer. I think that just about cooked him. Listening to his answer I thought I MUST be hearing things.
What i do not understand is how he got to go to Pensecola with his academic record unless his daddy intervened.
Strike One.
I would move those detainees to Fort Leavenworth.
Strike Two.
I would announce we will not torture anyone.
Strike Three. YER OUT!
I would announce that climate change is a big issue...
Oh, just give it a rest, McLame.
I watched some of the interview, and tried to be as objective as possible. I just wanted to listen to what he had to say.
I was surprised at how poor a performance it was, and shocked when the global warming comment was interjected into the GWOT discussion. McCain displayed the liberal tendency of thinking that the most important thing in foreign policy is to have everyone in the world like the USA. He didn’t make a case that global warming was a big problem, but tried to make a case that fighting global warming would make the USA popular, and help us somehow in the GWOT.
I was dumfounded.
NPR ran an interview yesterday with a Guantanamo detainee who’d been released and sent home to Pakistan. Arrested as an enemy combatant, he never said he was innocent and acted contemptuous of the US. Expect to see him back on the front lines sooner rather than later. NPR won’t be happy until Hill is running things.
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