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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mccain-japanese-hanged-for-waterboarding/Waterboarding generally makes breathing difficult and can cause the subject to think he's drowning. It's banned by domestic law and international treaties, but those policies don't cover CIA personnel and President Bush's administration won't say whether it has been allowed against terrorism detainees.
McCain was a prisoner of war for more than five years during the Vietnam War. He was tortured during that time, but said he wasn't subjected to waterboarding.
"If the United States was in another conflict, which could easily happen, with another country, and we have allowed that kind of torture to be inflicted on people we hold captive, then there's nothing to prevent that enemy from also torturing American prisoners," McCain said.
ChisolmTrailDem
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PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)GGJohn
(9,951 posts)He's been forcefully speaking out against torture for years now, he was tortured during his confinement in Vietnam, he knows how wrong it is.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)when he was running for president and needed to "prove" himself to the right-wing base.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)Not that that excuses his vote, I'm just curious.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)The same bush and cheney he so enthusiastically supported?
lovuian
(19,362 posts)to our own soldiers
Yep talked to an ex special forces and he was water boarded...they told him it was to prepare him for torture
Your never the same after being water boarded
It needs to be outlawed and never done on our own troops as well as prisoners
Gothmog
(145,353 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)was a songbird during his time as a prisoner of war so I seriously doubt he seen much torture at all other than being held captive maybe starved somewhat.
Read some of the accounts from some of the people who served time there with him of what kind of a person he is. If they haven't been scrubbed from the internet by now that is.
fuck john mcCain