John McCain was NOT Tortured in Vietnam, says Bush
posted by desertpear
I gotta hand it to Andrew Sullivan for writing this post.
Snips: "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?
According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured."
"Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue."
He continues on, and I do not have anything substantive to add except that this is another great thing to HAMMER THE REPUBLICANS WITH FROM NOW UNTIL THE ELECTION!
