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McCain Shows Up... But Only to Flip Flop

Posted by Michael Link on February 13, 2008 at 06:11 PM

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Today with 51 votes, the Senate successfully voted to declare that, as Senator Reid put it, "the Army Field Manual works and torture does not." There's the possibility of a Bush veto, of course, but the Senate stood up and made their voice heard. And of course, if Bush vetoes, we can push for Republicans to actually stand up to the Bush administration and vote to overturn it.

But what about Senator McCain, the man who not that long ago declared (with video!):

I just came back from visiting a prison in Iraq. The Army General there said the techniques under the Army Field Manual are working and working effectively. And he didn't think they needed to do anything else.

Well, he voted against the bill to abide by the Army Field Manual, of course. More double-talk from the Senator who this time is refusing to take a stand against waterboarding.

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McCain has such a screwed up logic and contradictory record concerning torture that it's going to eat into his credibility as a self-proclaimed war expert.

I don't know how he can point to his time in a POW camp as a reason for being considered a responsible war president and then say he doesn't care what happens to those American troops in the future who are taken prisoner by our enemies.

If a Commander-in-Chief has such little regard for the welfare of his troops, how can he be trusted to run a foreign policy for the entire nation?

If he doesn't care about torture, will he care about supporting the troops during his One Hundred Years War?

SandyH on February 13, 2008 at 06:37 PM

Maybe he has the "I lived, so can you" attitude

margotb822 on February 13, 2008 at 07:34 PM

will he care about supporting the troops during his One Hundred Years War?

Posted by SandyH on February 13, 2008 at 06:37 PM

And it doesn't bode well that the Hundred Years War was actually 116 years long...

margotb822 on February 13, 2008 at 07:36 PM

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