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on Friday, September 22, 2006 10:13:06 AM
Interesting Article in USA Today on McCain and the detainee compromise.
Article. Dewayne Wickham, writing about McCain, said:
"But on an even more thoughtful level, McCain's opposition to Bush's
legislation makes sense. It's hard enough to get warring nations to
adhere to the Geneva Conventions without creating a precedent that
would make it possible for other countries to conjure up their own
interpretations of them to escape being branded as war criminals.
In his autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, McCain wrote
about the lengths an interrogator went to break his silence: "On
occasions when he was particularly determined, I would find myself
trussed up and left for hours in ropes, my biceps bound tightly with
several loops to cut off my circulation and the end of the rope cinched
behind my back, pulling my shoulders and elbows unnaturally close
together. It was incredibly painful," McCain wrote of the torture he
experienced.
Anyone brave enough to endure that ought to know
what he's talking about when it comes to what this country's
interrogators should be allowed to do."