McCain votes to preserve waterboarding

[AFM]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/13/mccain-waterboarding-fail/
INTERESTING, INTERESTING
PONDER THIS ONE

[BarryDonegan]

That's pretty out there.

This guy's all over the place.

[colecrowe]

According to Henman from Digg (http://www.digg.com/politics/McCain_Votes_FOR_Waterboarding_Torture?t=12859700# c12859700):
McCain voted against this bill because it tries to make things illegal that were already considered illegal. It gives an out to those in this administration who approved the use of torture as an interrogation technique because after this bill is passed, they can say that it wasn't "illegal" until 2008. Water boarding has been and will still be illegal under the Geneva Conventions.


Spin. Spin. Spin. And spin again. :rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure this sounds like something Ron Paul would say. It sounds like a principled vote and position is being used against him by us. As much as I hate McCain, doesn't this sound like Ron Paul voting against a law to reduce the waiting period for buying a gun, because he believes their should be no waiting period.

[AFM]

Guy's an asshole

[Edu]

Title should be: McCain votes to waterboard YOU!

[MikeSmith]

I'm pretty sure this sounds like something Ron Paul would say. It sounds like a principled vote and position is being used against him by us. As much as I hate McCain, doesn't this sound like Ron Paul voting against a law to reduce the waiting period for buying a gun, because he believes their should be no waiting period.

If McCain had principles, I'd be fine with that statement. He's compromised with the administration on torture before.
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2006/09/25/the-worst-of-the-mccain-compromise/

btw... I'm sure there are better articles on it, but that was the first one to come up in a google search.