John McCain: Torture Played No Role In Locating Bin Laden's

[jopaddy81]

This is a big mistake by Obama. These people had to be pursued and prosecuted. History will call Obama an appeaser not because of his stance on foreign policy, but because he appears afraid to stand for the right thing and that is prosecuting the criminals thats started the waterboarding at G-Bay and calling out the backers of the Bush administration

[Mrpastry909]

Confirmation is pretty important. You can't raid a house in Abbottabad on a hunch. However, I understand where he's coming from, since he was tortured for 5.5 years.

[bschou]

I'm glad he is speaking out on this important issue. Torture is not the practice of a free republic.

[hotpocketpoison]

believe me i WANTED to vote for McCain...but i would rather move to canada than live in a country that had Sarah Palin as VICE PRESIDENT!!!

[EnergizerBunny804]

i am by no means a republican or any kind of right winger, and honestly, I'm not a big fan of much of McCain's worldview, but I have significant respect for him for being one of the few republicans speaking out about torture

[im4wur]

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." - Thomas Paine

"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot." - Thomas Paine

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing." - Thomas Paine

[im4wur]

Bravo! John McCain! - Thank you for having the courage to speak out against your party's madness. Looking back, perhaps more Americans will realize that many of Bush's policies (including torture) attacked what bin Laden never could. Traditional American values (based on the Bill of Rights); values fought and died for by generations of Americans, betrayed by the very men who swore an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution". - Thank you Senator McCain for standing up!

[DocRocz]

Wow, sounds like whatever cloud was working on McCain's mind has cleared and the maverick is hopefully back.

[pouyan1]

Good Word are good even from you sir!

[scfloyd1]

As a democrat I believe McCain. One thing I have noticed about McCain during his career in politics, he has never been partisian. He has always been honest, regardless if that honesty would hurt his political career or disappointed his fellow republicans.

[wildreams]

@scfloyd1 How you explain Palin?

[wilnout6453]

As a Democrat, THIS IS THE JOHN MCCAIN I would have voted for. The impassioned maverick bucking the trend of the party.

[HNK222]

The only people who support torture (Bush, Cheney, Lieberman, Rumsfeld, Limbaugh, etc) are ALL stay-at-home rightwingers who did everything they could to DODGE THE DRAFT40 years ago. They see war as an "Awesome" thing, because all they have is a Hollywood view.

For as much as rightwingers rail against Hollywood, it's Hollywood that creates their entire worldview (24, John Wayne, Schwarzenegger, Rambo, etc.)

[00ghostcobra]

@HNK222 Very insightful and true. John McCain, John Kerry, Lawrence Wilkerson and Colin Powell are all men that have actually been in wars. And they are all outspoken against torture.

[jopaddy81]

@HNK222 Hollywood is more conservative than people think. Rambo, John Wayne, Scwarzzneger, Ronald Reagan are all republicans

[crispyfritters]

@jopaddy81 well.. Rambo doesn't exist.