McCAIN AND TORTURE

September 15, 2006

Yesterday John McCain, with Lindsay Graham and John Warner in lockstep with him against our President, continued his chest thumping me me me in his mental quest to avenge South Carolina.

It is with trepidation that I write this. I have a 291/2 yr career in aviation in the United States Military but the closest I ever came to combat was with a thermo nuc in a B-47 during the Cuban Missle Crisis. 17 years were in a Reserve flying organization that the NCA chose not to activate. So-go ahead call me a chicken hawk!

My motivation in writing on this subject is my political philosophy. I am a Conservative and blog to express that philosophy in a (hopefully) cogent way. So here goes.

The perfidy pursued by Messrs McCain, Graham and Warner on 9/14 was disgusting. After months-or is it years, listening to leftist democrats whine endlessly about poor terrorists being tortured at Abu Garib-even Guantanamo,  that has been solely aimed at the President’s approval ratings and the democrats political health, now we have these 3.

McCain’s limp reasoning for taking one more opportunity to “get even” is obvious nonsense. As I understand his obscure reason for such disgusting conduct it is the old democrat saw we must not be firm in our defense of America because of “world opinion”. More specifically he says if we confuse the magic Geneva Convention Clause dear to our enemies and their kind and gentle treatment of our troops when captured; we will be causing the torture of our troops.

Senator McCain and his fellows in the hellholes in N Vietnam were tortured unspeakably by Jane Fonda and John Kerry’s pals.  I ask the Senator;  Where was the Geneva Convention ? Huh? How dare he compare the United States to the vicious dictator regimes of the world! Did he watch the merry old terrorists beheading the innocent? The non military who died screaming? Does he or the 2 syncophants from yesterday really think that anything they do can have ANY effect on the vicious-bloodthirsty conduct of THIS enemy? WHY do the sights and sounds of the bodies falling to the ground around the then existing World Trade Center not have any effect on these guys?

Today, a piece by Richard Miniter in the NY Post makes all of the above one very large hysterical joke! DO NOT MISS THIS PIECE! Follows a short excerpt-“Detainees use the envelopes sent to them by their attorneys to pass messages.(Some 1,000 lawyers represent 440 prisoners, all on a pro bono basis, with 18,500 letters in and out of Gitmo in the past year.) Guards are not allowed to look inside these envelopes because of “attorney client privilege”-even if they know the document inside is an Arabic-language note written by a prisoner and not a letter to or from a lawyer.” Go to nypost.com, for the piece.

Call McCain a hero? He was! But his self centered conduct at such a critical juncture makes him anything but. Of the other 2 light weights? Warner chose to support a democrat against Ollie North in the state of Virginia. And Graham-he’s a lawyer!