McCain on Cheney’s torture speech: ‘I just don’t see where it helps.’

[BlueJessamine]

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Think Progress:

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/22/mccain-cheney-torture/

Vice President Cheney’s speech on national security yesterday has been received positively by several Republican senators. In an interview with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg yesterday, however, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Cheney’s full-throated defense of torture isn’t helpful:

He told me of his fundamental disagreement with Cheney: “When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we shouldn’t torture, then I’m not sure it helps for the Vice President to go out and continue to espouse that position,” he said. “But look, he’s free to talk. He’s a former Vice President of the United States. I just don’t see where it helps.”

And then he got acerbic: Cheney, he says, “believes that waterboarding doesn’t fall under the Geneva Conventions and that it’s not a form of torture. But you know, it goes back to the Spanish Inquisition.”

Yesterday on Fox News, McCain reiterated that waterboarding is “not a new technique, and it is certainly torture.” “You hear it from al Qaeda operatives that when we torture people and it becomes public, then it helps them recruit,” he said.

[jeff30997]

1. Recommended.

Thanks for posting this BlueJessamine.

[BlueJessamine]

4. You are welcome Jeff!

:hi:

[tomm2thumbs]

2. John McCain all but shut down Cheney in that interview - good for him

I guess Cheney would rather have Rush Limbaugh than John McCain as well. He's running out of Republicans to kick around.

[Necon-Be-Gone]

3. Gretta's Head Explodes

She's lobbing all these gotchya GOP taking points for McCain to do a hit and run, but he says Cheney is wrong.

You can see in the first half of the video that her head is about to explode.

Poor delusional Faux News.

[jeff30997]

5. I was more under the impression...

that she was about to swallow her denture or whatever she have in her mouth.

[cooolandrew]

6. You have to hand it to McCain when he's right and he's got the most credibility on this.(nt)

[mccannmp1]

7. Thanks For Posting

This message from McCain, coupled with the thoughts of Jesse Ventura (who has been waterboarded) should put an end to the debate. Let's see what the 2 jerkoffs Hannity and O'Reilly have to say about McCain now (maybe McCain will be labled a "pinhead.")

[tclambert]

8. Waterboarding is the tip of the iceberg.

There was also genital mutilation, and many prisoners DIED while in custody, DIED of torture. There's no defending that.