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Originally Posted by Serenoa
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is bucking much of his party and coming to the defense of a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s controversial interrogation tactics.
“It’s a thorough study of practices that I believe not only failed their purpose to secure actionable intelligence... but actually damaged our security interests as well as our reputation as a force for good in the world,” McCain said in a speech on the Senate floor shortly after the report was released.
“I believe the American people have a right — indeed, a responsibility — to know what was done in their name, how these practices did or did not serve their interests and how they comported our most important values,” he said.
McCain, who was kept as a prisoner of war for five years during the Vietnam War, has been one of the most vocal critics of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods used during former President George W. Bush’s administration.
McCain comes to defense of CIA critics
So.....could any of you who are here defending Bush & Cheney, torture (enhanced interrogation or whatever you prefer to call it) & the benefits of it that you claim look Sen. McCain in the eye & tell him he's wrong? I really doubt it.
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I don't know. And you don't either. I know that someone planned to kill those people working peacefully in those twin towers and that group or groups with the same goals are beheading people, taping it and showing the world RIGHT NOW.
There are things we have never known and things unspeakable on this earth. That is the reason we put, or TRY to put, adult, WISE, people in power. I couldn't order those things done, but someone did. And I am not sure they were unwise. Sad as it is to say.
War is no baby game.
They would do and do far worse to our prisoners, those
unspeakable leaders of the radical groups of Islam. And they radicalize young men who live among us to maim and kill our people. Don't forget the Boston Bombings. Perhaps we should ask the grandfather of the little boy who was killed and his sister had her leg blown off . He lives here in The Villages. War is ugly. VERY ugly. I don't have the balls for it. But someone needs to have them.