Friday, May 20, 2011

Rick Santorum: What Does McCain Know About Torture Anyway? (Littlegreenfootballs.com)

It's amazing to watch one potential Republican presidential candidate after
another melting down in public. Yesterday it was Rick Santorum's turn:
Santorum: John McCain wrong on torture.

> Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was tortured
as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, "doesn't understand how enhanced
interrogation works."

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> Speaking on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, Santorum, the presidential hopeful and
former Pennsylvania senator, says McCain is misguided in his stance against
the enhanced interrogation techniques sanctioned during the Bush
administration but discontinued by Obama's White House, which has labeled them
torture.

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> "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 said, referring to the
courier that led Americans to Osama bin Laden. "And so this idea that we
didn't ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded,
he doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break
somebody, and after they're broken, they become cooperative."

Today Santorum tried to backpedal, but didn't retract his enthusiastic
endorsement of torture: Santorum says he meant 'nothing ill' toward ...
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