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Posted on 07/16/2009 2:29:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain said Thursday the United States must recover from the "moral failures" of human rights abuses and called for Americans to stand on the "right side" of history as a leader of the free world.
"I believe American leadership in opposition to human rights abuses, not silence, is the truest expression of our national character," McCain said in a speech to the Junior State of America, a civics education organization for high school students.
"The United States since its founding has embraced a set of moral duties, among which I believe is the obligation to respect the God-given dignity of every human being."
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If McCain is right then the Taliban have the moral high ground.
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McCain ...a war casualty.
No nation has done more or is doing more to reduce torture than the United States.
The United States has never had a policy of torturing people.
OUr nation will be greatly enriched and the global victims of torture will be better defended when John McCain joins most Americans in that consensus.
Pandering the incidents of Abu Ghraib and currying favor with radical statist tortures by offering apologies increases the incidence of torture and increases deaths and attacks on US service personnel.
In a word John:
No.
Go away John.
We never lost it, dummy!
>>”The United States since its founding has embraced a set of moral duties, among which I believe is the obligation to respect the God-given dignity of every human being.”
But in the Obamanation, those God-given dignities don’t belong to:
The Unborn
The Rich
The Palin Family
Christians
Conservatives
White People
Small business owners
The reason we have “moral failures” as a nation is because we have no morals as a people. If we return to our traditional values - and yes, that includes God - then all our other problems will fall into place. I honestly have a lot of reservations about some of our practices. They may be necessary - that is why it is imperative to me that I have a moral and decent man - who will pray - as the leaders of my nation.-—JM
McCain is ga-ga and has been for some time. GA-GA. He needs to be taken by the hand, gently led aside and told STFU repeatedly until he understands. He is not a leader. No one cares what he thinks, and he is a loser. Oh, and that unpleasantly deranged daughter of his, too.
McCain must have been feeling ignored, he is back with the wrong opinion on everything.
All he has to do is get down off his high horse and join the people, and he'll automatically know all the right things to say ~ but he has to shut that mouthy, nasty daughter of his up ~ maybe inflict some waterboarding, or better yet, IRON MAIDEN treatment or something.
Bet ya the Gitmo Jihadis prefer Gitmo to our prison system. Might be some patriotic convicts in our prisons that make their lives a lot more miserable, and they know it.
Shut up John and tell your daughter to follow suit. Thank you
McLame needs to GTFO, ASAP, qand take his porcine daughter with him!
Isn’t this the guy who is the father of the dumb, fat blonde?
Now why would you be wasting time crawling in the pot with CNN?
“My Friend” John McCain is a old fool.
There is torture in the world. And its easy to find. Every US serviceman who is captured is routinely tortured to death by our enemies in the current war. Every single one of them.
Our people who were captured by Saddam were routinely beaten, raped, murdered.
In previous wars, Viet Nam for instance, our men were routinely tortured day after day year after year for no particular purpose. McCain and his colleagues experienced that first hand.
The Japanese routinely tortured their POWs, and murdered them, and starved them, and used them for sword practice. They died in Japanese hands by the tens of thousands.
Very few of our enemies have even lived up to the standards of a Nazis POW camp, and when you can’t even manage parity with the Nazis on human rights, you really have taken things to a new low.
Mr. McCain of all people knows what torture is, and he knows we don’t do it. And he knows our enemies do. The guy is dishonest. There is no other word for it.
You have All the Moral standing you need when someone is trying to killyou, and has been successful in killing thousands, and wants to keep doing it.....And when you are standing over the afore mentioned enemy with your foot on his Throat, you have a moral obligation to ask him where his leader is hiding, what plans are being made to kill Americans, before you pull the barrell of your handgun out of his mouth so he can speak more clearly of the plans that were interrupted by his capture.
I don’t see a problem with waterboarding if they fail to cooperate and convince.
Next issue.
Few things can sicken me like the phony piety of politicians.
You would think that a man who had been the victim of REAL torture, would not say such asinine things. However, maybe he’s gone soft, or senile.
Yikes, Spam with hair.
Geesh, you put the US down when virtually nothing wrong was done and you somehow think the terrorists aren't worse, both relatively and absolutely.
As a country, don't we, technically, lose any moral “high ground” the moment one citizen commits a crime?
Again, shut the heck up, you idiot.
I guess they missed the head wound and massive brain damage when he came home,He is the Enemy here along with the Democrats these Turds long ago forgot they work for us.
Will he ever just go away? He makes me sick! He threw that election.
He can’t even stop that pokulus daughter of his from torturing the people that supported him and voted for him.
Who is defining this moral standing that we must recover? Terrorists? The UN? The Euros? I don’t think they have the authority to dictate morality to us.
GET.. OFF.. AMERICAS.. STAGE.. mr mccain.
A CNN report. Whenever they have gone a few hours without bashing the Republicans it is time to call McCain.
The terrorists really must love this guy. sheesh
If this jackass really means it, then he’ll shut his fat yap.
It’s torture every time I hear his voice.
Someone please remind him that his 15 minutes were up in November.
I’ve read 34 comments on this moron’s latest blathering, with not a single person defending him.
On the one hand, that speaks well for this site.
On the other, I wish there was someone defending his sickening, RINO, statist, backstabbing, media-favor-seeking behind so we could have the satisfaction of swatting said person around awhile.
GOD, I detest this vile man.
Hank
Oh McCain.....You've done it again!!!
“McCain says [don’t torture terrorists]”
He didn’t say we couldn’t terrorize them./sarc
mccain is a moral failure.
I can’t remember when he has been on the “right side” of anything since he silenced and ended the search for American MIAs in Vietnam, and went on to be bill clinton’s point man for “normalization” with the murderous Communist regime of Vietnam.
He was mighty damn quick to smile, shake hands with, and forgive HIS torturers.
As far as I am concerned, whatever you gotta do to save innocent lives has got to be done. Then kill the b@st@rds so they don’t get to spend a holiday at Club Gitmo where they continue to prick us every chance they get.
Today, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed flew paper airplanes in the faces of 9/11 families. Someone should have shot him on the spot.
Can’t we put this guy out to stud or something?
I can’t remember when he has been on the “right side” of anything since before he and John F'n Kerry silenced and ended the search for American MIAs in Vietnam,
There, fixed that.
I dismiss j skerry out of hand as even the thought of him does nasty things to my stomach.
mccain is very quickly achieving that status as well.
BOTH ditched long suffering wives and married rich women and that is two for two.
Both CLAIM hero status and exploit it until you just get sick of hearing it, while true heroes quietly go about their lives.
john mccain is a liar. j skerry is a liar. john mccain “respects” senator skerry and trashed the Swiftboat Vets when he knew they were telling the truth.
mccain “respects” hussein obama so much he refused to use his rightful name ... and trashed conservatives for mentioning it.
The man is a snake, I have said so for years and years.
etc. etc. and etc.
McCain must shut up, says Post Toasties. McPain in the Ass is a gaffe machine second only to 'Plugs' Biden.
Obviously, based on what he says, McCain would prefer to see a few thousand additional dead Americans rather than have the three human pieces of s*** waterboarded that were. McCain should hang his head in shame - he's not a true American.
John McCain was a weak candidate in 2008.
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