"The Healthy Man Does Not Torture Others--Generally It Is The Tortured Who Turn Into Torturers."

Quote attributed to Carl Jung.

 

The NY Times, from February 17, 2008, as background for John McCain's lies regarding torture during the presidential debate:

     Senator John McCain’s vote last week against a bill to curtail the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of harsh interrogation tactics disappointed human rights advocates who consider him an ally and led Democrats to charge that he was trying to please Republicans as he seeks to rally them around his presidential bid.

     The bill, which the Senate passed Wednesday by 51 to 45, would force the C.I.A. to abide by the rules set out in the Army Field Manual on Interrogation, which prohibits physical force and lists approved interrogation methods.

     Mr. McCain, of Arizona, said he believed it would be a mistake to limit C.I.A. interrogators to using only those techniques that were enumerated in the Field Manual, which he noted was a public document.

     “When we passed the Military Commissions Act, we said that the C.I.A. should have the ability to use additional techniques,” Mr. McCain told reporters Friday in Oshkosh, Wis. “None of those techniques would entail violating the Detainee Treatment Act, which said that cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment are prohibited.”

     The problem, human rights advocates say, is that disagreement remains over which tactics are prohibited. Mr. McCain, for example, said waterboarding — a simulated drowning technique — was an illegal form of torture. But while the C.I.A. says it no longer uses waterboarding, the Bush administration has not ruled out its use in the future.

     “It’s disappointing,” said Jennifer Daskal, a senior counsel at Human Rights Watch, “that Senator McCain, who has long made it clear that Congress had intended to outlaw abusive interrogation techniques including waterboarding, won’t stand up to an administration that continues to say waterboarding is O.K. in certain circumstances.”

     Although Mr. McCain has battled the Bush administration over whether waterboarding is illegal, his vote on Wednesday allied him with President Bush, who has threatened to veto the bill.

     So why did DoubleTalk rail against torture in the debate when his history indicates his blind-eyed condonement?

     This NYT piece is just one of many such reports regarding DoubleTalk's continued bullshit about his photo-op "love" of  the troops.

     Just Google it; use any combination of search words, and be sure to consider the source of the piece:

     "McCain/Torture".

     "McCain/Troop Support".

     "McCain/Body Armor".

     "McCain/Waterboarding".

     "McCain/Webb G.I. Bill".

     "McCain/Bush".

     "McCain/Lies".