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McCain’s Waterboarding Flip Flop

J.J. Jackson* | February 25, 2008 

Senator John McCain is feeling the heat from conservatives and libertarians (real libertarian not the liberaltarnians mind you) and has apparently flip flopped on his stance regarding waterboarding. In the past, John McCain has likened the practice to torture (a comparison that has pleased liberals) by stating how, “it was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today,” and also, “It is torture.”.

Well, apparently he has had a change of heart.

Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war who suffered torture at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors, said today that President Bush should veto a bill that would prohibit the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrorgation techniques on prisoners.McCain, an outspoken opponent of waterboarding, voted against the bill, which would limit the CIA to using only 19 interrogation techniques listed in the Army field manual. He maintains that waterboarding is already illegal, but that the CIA should not be precluded from using other legal measures in its interrogation of suspected terrorists.

McCain’s spin is an honorable attempt at saving face on this but I am calling it like it is – a realization that he needs the support of the American center (limited government types such as conservatives) to win in November and is looking for a way to get a vote against banning waterboarding out there on the public record and knew a vote for this would ultimately doom him.

The Source backs up my observations:

“John McCain has tried to moderate his stance and appear more appealing to Americans that don’t think terrorists who kill women and children and that are not bound by the Geneva Conventions (nor abide by them) should be treated with kid gloves. His vote against this legislation is a sign of that according to my sources within the campaign.”

 He had the opportunity to take his stand (and be a leader for what he mistakenly thinks is right) but once again played it safe. Like a stopped clock however, even McCain can be right twice a day. It’s the rest of the day that bothers me.

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