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John McCain CIA Torture Report Senate Speech

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I stopped voting Republican when Bush led us to a war in Iraq based on lies. Since then, I have voted only for Libertarians..... Except for one time. That was in 2008, when I voted for John McCain, who IMHO, is willing to put party politics aside and call a spade a spade.

This video, of McCain's speech, made on the Senate floor today, is a must watch, for John McCain, in his harsh criticism of his own party, represents the conscience of America, and is a Republican I would vote for again. There should be no Republicans or Democrats, but Americans who stand for American ideals, and torture is certainly not one of them.

Give 'em hell, John.

 
McCain is right: It's not about our enemies; it's about who we are.
 
Sorry, it's a rough world, sometimes you gotta do rough things and our torture is extremely, meant to give the impression that we're capable of so much more without causing any lasting damage or even any real physical harm.
 
Sorry, it's a rough world, sometimes you gotta do rough things and our torture is extremely, meant to give the impression that we're capable of so much more without causing any lasting damage or even any real physical harm.

That's right, X. American torture is almost humanitarian. :roll:
 
Sorry, it's a rough world, sometimes you gotta do rough things and our torture is extremely, meant to give the impression that we're capable of so much more without causing any lasting damage or even any real physical harm.

Yeah man, when we use rape as a torture device that causes no lasting harm at all. Nope.

Hell man, our actions are so humane we strip them naked and make them do tricks for us, we make them do sexual things to each other, we make them seem like they are drowning, and did I mention we sometimes use rape? Yeah man, it's all good.
 
Sorry, it's a rough world, sometimes you gotta do rough things and our torture is extremely, meant to give the impression that we're capable of so much more without causing any lasting damage or even any real physical harm.

If you want to be the good guys, you have to act like the good guys. I want to be one of the good guys. We do not need to torture, we should not torture, we should be better than those we are fighting against.
 
I agree with President GW Bush.

I agree with Vice-President Dick Cheney.

I agree with the leadership of the CIA.

These are all honorable men, doing honorable things at a time when America needed such leadership.

As Vice-President Cheney said recently, "these agents deserve commendation, not criticism".

All that said, I'm glad the report was released.
 
What I saw shows me that it works just fine.

What it shows is that you'll do or say anything to escape the torture, even if you have no relevant information. So in that sense, it is a HORRIBLE method of gathering intelligence. But if you want to torture to inflict terror, then yes, it works.
 
Yeah man, when we use rape as a torture device that causes no lasting harm at all. Nope.

Hell man, our actions are so humane we strip them naked and make them do tricks for us, we make them do sexual things to each other, we make them seem like they are drowning, and did I mention we sometimes use rape? Yeah man, it's all good.

I suppose we can agree to disagree on this. Sometimes bad people must have bad things done to them. I am grateful that we have people willing to take these steps in order to protect us.


The Marxist and his henchmen have damaged the US. This is disgusting. And McCain? The Senator from McCain? He stood with our enemies, the Democrats today.
 
What I saw shows me that it works just fine.

It amazes me that there is this rather large segment of the population that still thinks torture works. How many centuries has the world practiced torture? How is it possible that there is this rather large segment of the population ignorant of it's failure?
 
These are all honorable men, doing honorable things at a time when America needed such leadership.

There's nothing honourable about giving orders to torture people. You idea of being honourable is truly ****ed up.
 
It amazes me that there is this rather large segment of the population that still thinks torture works. How many centuries has the world practiced torture? How is it possible that there is this rather large segment of the population ignorant of it's failure?

I cannot speak to torture. But disorientation, fear, yeah, they work.
 
I suppose we can agree to disagree on this. Sometimes bad people must have bad things done to them. I am grateful that we have people willing to take these steps in order to protect us.


The Marxist and his henchmen have damaged the US. This is disgusting. And McCain? The Senator from McCain? He stood with our enemies, the Democrats today.

There is really nothing I can say to someone that still believes in the ethics of centuries past that wouldn't be breaking the rules.
 
There's nothing honourable about giving orders to torture people. You idea of being honourable is truly ****ed up.
Protecting the nation, against all enemies, foreign or Democrat, I mean domestic, will always be honorable.
 
It certainly adds stress to ones minute. After a half dozen times I bet most people would gladly have a polite discussion with interrogators.

Yet the report that came out today states that despite all of the torture committed under the Bush Administration, not one single useful piece of intel was had. Sure a shame after all of that hard work, eh?
 
There's nothing honourable about giving orders to torture people. You idea of being honourable is truly ****ed up.

Not at all.

I just don't think sitting your (the collective "your") fat ass on your couch and second guessing those who took charge in such times is honorable or constructive.
 
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There is really nothing I can say to someone that still believes in the ethics of centuries past that wouldn't be breaking the rules.
If you have a wish to commit suicide I will not stand in your way. But you have no right to take the nation down with you.

War is war. Grow up.
 
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I suppose we can agree to disagree on this. Sometimes bad people must have bad things done to them. I am grateful that we have people willing to take these steps in order to protect us.


The Marxist and his henchmen have damaged the US. This is disgusting. And McCain? The Senator from McCain? He stood with our enemies, the Democrats today.

And then we become the bad people too.
 
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