{"id":18054,"date":"2016-11-20T00:53:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18054"},"modified":"2016-11-20T00:53:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:53:56","slug":"listen-to-sen-mccain-he-knows-torture-when-he-sees-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18054","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Sen. McCain; he knows torture when he sees it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have\u00a0leveled my share of criticism at U.S. Sen. John McCain over the years.<\/p>\n

However, when it comes to an issue with which he has intimate knowledge, I defer to the Arizona Republican every time the issue comes up.<\/p>\n

The man knows torture. He endured it during his more than five years as a captive of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

When this heroic American says that waterboarding is “torture” and that the United States need not torture captives taken in battle, well, he needs to be heard.<\/p>\n

The president-elect once denigrated McCain’s service during the Vietnam War — which the next president managed to avoid through several deferments. Donald J. Trump once said famously that McCain was a “hero” only because he was “captured. I like people who aren’t captured, OK?”<\/p>\n

McCain has made a stern vow: The United States will not waterboard prisoners. \u201cI don\u2019t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard,\u201d McCain told an audience at the annual Halifax International Security Forum. \u201cWe will not torture people \u2026 It doesn\u2019t work”<\/p>\n

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I get that McCain lost badly to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign. I did not vote for him. However, I also honor this man’s service during the Vietnam War. He was subjected to unbelievable torture tactics after he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967.<\/p>\n

When\u00a0this war hero\u00a0says\u00a0waterboarding doesn’t work, I believe him.<\/p>\n

The United States has plenty of “enhanced interrogation” techniques at its disposal to glean intelligence from captives that do not involve torture. Must we resort to tactics used by our enemies? No. We’re far better than that.<\/p>\n\n

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I have\u00a0leveled my share of criticism at U.S. Sen. John McCain over the years. However, when it comes to an issue with which he has intimate knowledge, I defer to the Arizona Republican every time the issue comes up. The man knows torture. He endured it during his more than five years as a captive … Continue reading Listen to Sen. McCain; he knows torture when he sees it<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[540,1424,2546,4864,5116,5204],"class_list":["post-18054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-torture","tag-vietnam-war","tag-waterboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18054\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}