John McCain was not tortured

[jhain]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html


***the government of the United States now practices the very same techniques that the Communist government of North Vietnam once proudly used against American soldiers. When they are used against future John McCains, the victims will know, in a way McCain didn't, that their own government has no moral standing to complain.

Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue.

These are the prices people pay for power.

More here:http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html

[SteelPenguin]

1. That's the moment I lost all respect for McCain

When you flip flop on the definition of the torture you yourself underwent, for political purposes...well....You've lost my respect.

[liberal N proud]

2. Here is the question the media is too afraid to ask:

John, How can you consider yourself tortured when the bu$h administration says the very same techniques you describe are not torture?

[jhain]

3. and

how will you explain this to your running mate when her son is captured?