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McCain flips on torture
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3-9-2008 9:10 PM
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After opposing torture for years, he caves to pander to conservatives.
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John McCain (Ariz.), the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a longtime critic of coercive interrogation tactics <STRONG>who nonetheless backed the Bush administration in opposing the CIA waterboarding ban</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/9/161347/8163"><P>As a reminder, this was <A href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/51200/page/1">John "Straight Talk" McCain in 2005</A>: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/9/161347/8163"><P>The mistreatment of prisoners harms us more than our enemies.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/9/161347/8163"><P>In my view, to make someone believe that you are killing him by drowning is no different than holding a pistol to his head and firing a blank. 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