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I think I've said before that I'm no fan of John McCain. It's not that I dislike the guy, but he tends to form opinions, and change opinions, according to the political winds. He is no Republican regardless of the letter after his name. That being said, McCain served this Country Honorably in Vietnam, and he paid a high price for that service. He was a prisoner of war for FIVE YEARS. He suffered torture at the hands of the north vietnamese.
Rick Santorum stepped on his dick with this dumbass comment. McCain may not agree with the United States using enhanced interrogation on the terrorist scumbags, but based on his history, that is understandable.
I agree with Santorum that interrogation led us to bin laden and hopefully, getting bin laden will lead us to lots of other scumbags. But for Santorum to make this comment about McCain is just dumb. He owes John McCain an apology, a big one...
From FoxNews
Likely presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday said he was trying to discuss U.S. policy and not Sen. John McCain's personal experience when he said a day earlier that the former POW doesn't understand the effectiveness of waterboarding and other tough interrogation techniques.
Santorum referenced McCain, who spent more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison, during a radio interview in which he disagreed with McCain's claims last week that waterboarding Al Qaeda's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, did not provide information that led to Usama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
"Everything I've read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation," Santorum told host Hugh Hewitt. "And so this idea that we didn't ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he (McCain) doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works."
Shortly afterward, a spokeswoman for McCain said his office would not dignify Santorum's comments with a response. But the remarks drew a stinging retort from former longtime McCain adviser Mark Salter. Salter, who most recently advised McCain during his unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, fired back via Facebook.
"Ron Paul may be the wackiest candidate in the GOP field. But for pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today," Salter wrote.
McCain addressed the interrogation issue last week amid a charged debate on Capitol Hill over how important the enhanced techniques used during the prior administration were in pinpointing bin Laden's location.
McCain said he asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and that the hunt for bin Laden did not begin with fresh information from Mohammed. In fact, the name of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, came from a detainee held in another country.
"Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information," McCain said.
But Santorum insisted that waterboarding played a role in compelling Mohammed to eventually provide information.
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