Posted on 05/18/2011 11:19:55 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan
Rick Santorum backtracked on his comments that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) may not "understand how enhanced interrogation works" if he doesn't believe it led to the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden.
Santorum said in a statement Wednesday that he disagrees with McCain's view that torture doesn't work, but "for anyone to infer my disagreement with Senator McCain's policy position lessens my respect for his service to our country and all he had to endure is outrageous and unfortunate."
McCain last week gave a speech on the Senate floor, which he underlined in a number of other media appearances, decrying torture and "enhanced interrogation" and asserting that those methods don't work and did not lead to the death of Osama bin Laden. McCain was tortured when he was a POW during the Vietnam War, and has said that he would make up information to tell his captors.
(Excerpt) Read more at tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com ...
Forget waterboarding, Obama says feeding detainees Ensure drinks was torture.
Yep. Totally uninformed.
I can't repeat what I think about the folks at TPM.
Nobody whose ever experienced anything close to real torture,I assume,not something that is psychologically presented as torture is going to be for it.Unless that person is suffering from some kind of Stockholm syndrome.
Water boarding isn’t torture,it is a form of interrogation used against terrorists.The reason we found Osama is because somebody rattled him out and that crisscrossed an earlier search for him.
“Has no one asked McCain if and why he equates the North Vietnamese torturers to USA CIA interrogators?”
Good question.
“I don’t see where Rick is backing away from water boarding, just not slamming McLame personally.”
Absolutely!
“Nobody whose ever experienced anything close to real torture,I assume,not something that is psychologically presented as torture is going to be for it”
No, those of us who have been tortured, and I don’t speak for Juan, resent these liberal pukes getting their panties in a wad over non-torture and thus trivializing real torture. Torture is the gift that keeps giving, and it leaves permanent marks which in my case cause pain every day of my life.
Ditto, Lazlo in PA. I don’t get it, either. Santorum was simply expressing what, he presumed, had been tacitly understood by everyone up to that point, namely that McCain’s sufferings in the Hanoi Hilton were those of an honorable and patriotic American and that, furthermore, they had nothing whatsoever to do with this modern debate over waterboarding. This whole unfairly-slamming-patriotic-McCain issue is a non-issue manufactured by the Republican Establishment and the MSM in an effort to stop Santorum dead in his tracks before his campaign gains too much momentum. IMHO, he’s the one they’re afraid of, not Pawlenty, Palin, Gingrich, Huntsman, etc. (with the possible exception of Bachmann and Romney—I can’t say for sure about them yet).
So, your choice for the GOP nomination would be...?
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