Comments on: The Pro-Torture Pact

The Nation: McCain Again Capitulates To Bush

[getcentered]

Thank you "RonnieHM" for helping with my point.

We should not be voting to "Win".

We should vote to have our government made of leaders with intelligence, competence, and that proactively engage in creating understanding and compromise.

Not bullies who just want to win.

[ronniehm]

Heard that in 2002 ... and 2004 ...
Win one before you claim to know what America wants.

[getcentered]

All that call themselves Republicans' are worried to death about losing their powers. They need alliances badly. There is good reason too. Most Americans know, the Republicans of today are incompetent when making decisions that affect their lives.

So the GOP has to pull the only card they have left, "terror". If they can't show unity on "terror", then they know they'll lose big in the November elections.

Americans are dying in various countries and I hope in the up coming elections that "we the people" vote new blood into Congress. Those who can unite our country, not divide us. Those who make intelligent decisions based on facts not assumptions. Leaders who are willing to put their heads together and help solve the numerous problems Americans face today.

We cannot keep the status quo. Americans need to vote with their minds and not their emotions so Congress can be made up of leaders that will do the same. Get centered, and then vote smart.

[getcentered]

All that call themselves Republicans' are worried to death about losing their powers. They need alliances badly. There is good reason too. Most Americans know, the Republicans of today are incompetent when making decisions that affect their lives.

So the GOP has to pull the only card they have left, "terror". If they can't show unity on "terror", then they know they'll lose big in the November elections.

Americans are dying in various countries and I hope in the up coming elections that "we the people" vote new blood into Congress. Those who can unite our country, not divide us. Those who make intelligent decisions based on facts not assumptions. Leaders who are willing to put their heads together and help solve the numerous problems Americans face today.

We cannot keep the status quo. Americans need to vote with their minds and not their emotions so Congress can be made up of leaders that will do the same. Get centered, and then vote smart.

[ronniehm]

Not much tolerance for a variety of opinions in the Democratic party, huh. Got plenty of folks on both sides of the issue in the GOP. We'll take him.

[mperkel]

The Church of Reality is the first religion to issue an edict against torture. I'm hoping that other religions will come out and state that torture is wrong.

http://www.churchofreality.org/wisdom/current_event_edicts/

What is the different between our torture camps and Nazi concentration camps? In time there will be no difference. McCain is a total wimp.

Of course this is utterly dreadful. And it will come back to haunt us all. On the day [which is coming] that someone who has nothing to do with Islam is declared to be a "terrorist" and therefore deprived of due process of law, the last scrap of what made this country worth something in the world will be gone. Period.

[mrcodpiece]

I was sure McCain had more brass.
Instead, he rolls over for the GOP.
Very sad.

[hsmagst]

Doesn't the whole thing hinge on degree? I mean stripping a person and putting a dog collar on them is so much different than cutting off a finger. Shaving there head and beard is pretty benign compared to slitting their throat or cutting off their head. I really don't care if an enemy combatant is tortured if it saves one american servicemans life. I think McCain is aware of the differences.

[ronniehm]

If McCain, as a POW, can support it, it's not a pro-torture pact.