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Good Question
Suburban Guerrilla —
Does Bush believe McCain was tortured? Andrew Sullivan asks the question.
McCain's Torture, as Defined by McCain and Bush/Cheney, Wasn't Torture
Hoffmania! —
... Forget the Solzhenitsyn plagiarism. Andrew Sullivan finds something much more interesting in McCain's POW story. 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.
Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo
and David Addington and George Tenet. In the one ...
Was McCain tortured in Vietnam? Bush says "no"
Daily Kos —
Andrew Sullivan makes an excellent point. 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. Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do ...
Sullivan on Bush, McCain and Torture
The Agitator —
... Andrew Sullivan makes a very important point about Bush, McCain and the subject of torture. Two points, actually. The first is that Bush doesn’t think McCain was tortured: ...
Conservative Andrew Sullivan asks: Was Mccain really tortured?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Too bad for the McCain camp that it's a devoutly Catholic conservative writer and thinker who is asking the question. Gonna be interesting to see the McCain campaign try to demonize Andrew, and then see if they get away with it. My money is on Andrew winning that rhetorical battle. ...
Is this what it's come to?
Brilliant at Breakfast —
Is this the depths to which we've sunk? That I'm actually applauding Andrew Sullivan? 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. ...
Sullivan: Bush & Cheney Don’t Believe John McCain Was Tortured
Crooks and Liars —
... Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic hits it right on the head. John McCain has gone back on his word not to play up his POW experiences during the presidential campaign, so this is absolutely fair game. He’s not just exploiting his time as a POW, he’s ...
According to the Bush Administration McCain was not tortured
BlondeSense —
From Andrew Sullivan who makes a great point: 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. Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush. So do John Yoo and David Addington ...
Do You Want ExxonMobil, Chevron or British Petroleum to Finance Your News?
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... Nothing about cleaner energy. In fact the heavy oil project in Canada is bound to be an environmental disaster. Then there's the progressive "Atlantic Monthly," as another example. Here's the add above right wing shill turned moderate/anti-neo-con Andrew Sullivan above his column in the Atlantic: aa That's as of 8:03 EST on August 22nd at http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/was-mccain-tort.html . (The ad may have rotated off the page by the time you look at it, but we captured this at the time designated above.) Now, many progressive websites do ...
Fred Thompson Describes McCain's POW Experience In Graphic Detail
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... But, at the risk of briefly intruding on territory that Andrew Sullivan will likely address with greater eloquence, I'd find this story a great deal more moving if it weren't for the fact that the Bush administration permits these same sorts of atrocities do be done in our nation's name. To say nothing of ...
This is Not an Exercise
Sadly, No! —
... Lengthened moment in the sea
Driving me home
Any places far or near
It begins at one and is followed by two
An X marks the spot where I met U
1 2 Drill U
In the heart of the earth under the ground
In every city and every town
1 2 Drill U
If you’re saved or if you’re lost
If you are free, what is the cost?
1 2 Drill U
If you’re scarred, if you’re a fool
If you are hot, if you are cool ...
Rambo and the Mean Girl
Informed Comment —
... McCain dwelled at length on his years as a prisoner of the Vietnamese and even adverted briefly to having been broken by torture. The rage and abasement of that moment when he signed a confession of war crimes and denounced the United States ...
Why John McCain Really Wasn’t Tortured & Other News On The Bush Torture Regime
The Moderate Voice —
... Bay and secret prisons in foreign countries and aboard U.S. Navy ships. Not according to David Addington, who has proudly served as Cheney’s dungeon master.
It is the view of all of these cowards, smugly reinforced in John Yoo’s ethically- and morally-impaired Justice Department memos, that McCain was not tortured because the techniques employed against him were merely used to extract accurate information.
And so, as Andrew Sullivan wryly notes:
“The false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according ...
NPR's Ombudsman: Why We Bar the Word 'Torture'
Commondreams.org Views —
... torture," so what's the point of denying a claim nobody makes? The point is that extended sleep deprivation, prolonged forced nudity, hypothermia and waterboarding someone 183 times -- particularly when done together -- are all unquestionably, indisputably "torture" under every relevant authority. The U.S. has prosecuted those acts as torture in the past . Multiple media outlets and even the U.S. Government have routinely described those acts as "torture" when used against Americans , rather than by Americans. The tactics are ones we copied ...
