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Conservative Andrew Sullivan poses a rather brilliant dilemma. If what the US has been doing in Guantanamo and elsewhere is not torture, then the North Vietnamese didn't torture John McCain. It was just "enhanced interrogation".
"In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?
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No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects. Feel safer?"
Read the rest:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html
Note: My prediction is that instead of being impressed by the logic, the Repugs are likely to reply with something like "the libruls are claiming McCain wasn't tortured", ignoring the fact that it was a conservative's observation.
"In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?
...
No war crimes were committed against McCain. And the techniques used are, according to the president, tools to extract accurate information. And so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects. Feel safer?"
Read the rest:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html
Note: My prediction is that instead of being impressed by the logic, the Repugs are likely to reply with something like "the libruls are claiming McCain wasn't tortured", ignoring the fact that it was a conservative's observation.
