Candidate: McCain Doesn’t Understand Interrogation
Yes, you read that right. I did a double take myself. It wasn’t an copy editor’s boo boo. He actually said this during an interview on a radio talk show.
And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he (McCain) doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.
Are you kidding me? Enhanced interrogation is just a polite and fancy term for torture. And if anyone knows about torture, it’s McCain. Santorum has some serious balls to say this about a POW.
Torture doesn’t work. I never understood why people think it does. A person who is being tortured will say anything, anything to get it to stop. It doesn’t even have to be true. Just give them something vaguely similar to what they want to hear. An example is our favorite waterboarding participant, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:
“Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden’s courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information,” McCain said.
Rick Santorum believes that the information did come from KSM. OK, fine. Believe whatever you want. Just don’t tell someone who was tortured for nearly 6 years that they don’t understand it. MSNBC reported the Facebook response by McCain’s aide, Mark Salter:
For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum. In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.
Message to Santorum: Not only is this claim complete lunacy, you look like a really insensitive blowhard when you say that about a POW.
May 18th, 2011 at 12:04 AM
santorum is a weasly, small, obnoxious asswipe, and it is with great pleasure that i watch him getting slapped around.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
There will be more to come, unfortunately.
May 18th, 2011 at 2:08 AM
Santorum is an insignificant piece of bovine fecal matter that spews hate and does not deserve any attention for any reason…
May 18th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
May 18th, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Yep and equine fecal matter makes an appearance from time to time….
May 18th, 2011 at 1:24 PM
May 18th, 2011 at 7:11 AM
Don’t bother people like Santorum with the facts, they’ve already made up their minds.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:16 AM
No kidding. The studies that show that torture doesn’t work be damned.
May 18th, 2011 at 7:58 AM
Rick Santorum is a (insert Trademarked, Copyrighted dcmartin vulgarism here).
That is all.
May 18th, 2011 at 10:16 AM
Heh he doesn’t get a specialized one like your thief and Psychology Today?
May 18th, 2011 at 12:23 PM
Great post!
May 18th, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Thanks Hook!
May 18th, 2011 at 12:42 PM
First – anyone who uses this phrase “Enhanced interrogation” is a deluded jerk, but to carry that a step farther and suggest someone who has been through torture doesn’t get it is just beyond comprehension.
What an idiot!
May 18th, 2011 at 1:25 PM
I can’t stand that phrase. Easier to call it “enhanced interrogation” because it doesn’t sound as cruel and sick as torture. He is a total idiot.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:47 PM
I wonder if he calls child abuse “enhanced parental discipline”?
Is rape “enhanced coitus”?
What a dickweed Santorum is.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:20 PM
He’s a clone of Palin or vice versa. Take your pick.
May 18th, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Haha I don’t know. It would work either way.
May 19th, 2011 at 2:56 AM
He’s not worth the time, effort, and any increase in blood pressure.
May 19th, 2011 at 3:57 AM
“Rick Santorum telling my father he doesn’t know about torture is like Carrot Top telling Lebron James he doesn’t know about basketball.”
~Meghan McCain
May 19th, 2011 at 5:02 PM
I’m loving Meghan more and more! And Glenn Beck can suck it. She is NOT fat.