McCain: Cheney Endorses Spanish Inquisition Technique

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Source: The Atlantic

McCain: Cheney Endorses Spanish Inquisition Technique

21 May 2009 06:17 pm

I stopped by to see John McCain this afternoon in his Senate office. I haven't seen him for several months, and was glad to see that he seemed rested and ready, if not tan. He was in high spirits, and we talked for a while about the Obama Administration's embrace of realpolitik, Pakistan, Iran, the whole nine yards. But first I asked him about Dick Cheney and his defense of Bush Administration torture policies. He told me of his fundamental disagreement with Cheney: "When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we shouldn't torture, then I'm not sure it helps for the Vice President to go out and continue to espouse that position," he said. "But look, he's free to talk. He's a former Vice President of the United States. I just don't see where it helps."

And then he got acerbic: Cheney, he says, "believes that waterboarding doesn't fall under the Geneva Conventions and that it's not a form of torture. But you know, it goes back to the Spanish Inquisition."

I'll post more of what McCain said -- including his critique of Obama's speech -- tomorrow.

Read more: http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/05/mccain_cheney_endorses_spanish.php

[Xipe Totec]

1. If you want to torture the Dick, cut his microphone n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. so Cheney supports the Spanish Inquisition!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

"nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition!"

[NewJeffCT]

4. their chief weapon is surprise

fear & surprise are their chief weapons... fear, surprise and a ruthless efficiency...fear, surprise and a ruthless efficiency are their chief weapons, and a fanatical devotion to the Pope. Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency and a fanatical devotion to the Pope. Amongst our weapons...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldlyTjXk9A&feature=related

[tomm2thumbs]

3. Not that Obama should use him as a shield, but McCain OWNS this issue and should be quoted more

... quoted by Obama, Gibbs, Democratic leaders in the press - all of them. No one seems to want to pick up the one card to play that was played all during the election - that John McCain is an American hero, who knows torture first hand, and who has said this is torture and shall not stand - and who desired to close Gitmo.

Am I missing some reason they aren't mentioning him? He truly holds full-weight on this issue.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Tomorrow, McCain will reverse himself on this

and say that Cheney was correct in this one case.

[The Hope Mobile]

6. True that! nt

[Arkana]

7. Well, John was there at the Inquisition, so he should know.

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R

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