Another great video
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Amnesty International have today released this hard-hitting ad – it will be shown on cinema screens across the country. It’s part of their unsubscribe campaign.
Worth emphasising – not only has Bush recently admitted they allowed waterboarding, but he has also defended it. As has McCain, who has repeatedly made contradictory claims about allowing torture.
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McCain may be an ‘American hero’ as Obama put it, but as a Presidential candidate he is seriously flawed.
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Has John McCain made “contradictory claims” on allowing torture? I thought he was very clear in rejecting it, as the only Presidential candidate who has actually been tortured.
Hi David, see:
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/02/15/john-mccain-flip-flopping-on-torture/
I don’t think McCain has ever defended waterboarding or even argued it should be allowed. The hype that McCain was proponent of waterboarding came from a recent vote on applying the army field manual to the intelligence community. This would outlaw waterboarding among many other things. McCain voted no on the manual, however, his issue with the field manual does not neccesarily have anything to do with waterboarding. Furthermore the proposal was pure posturing anyhow, it had no chance in survivng Bush’s veto. McCain’s thinking was most likely that he did not want to distance himself from mainstream republicans (this was in Februrary) during the primaries for a proposal that was a dead duck anyhow.
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@3 Sunny…
I would be careful anything that Olberman says at face value. He is the Bill O’Reilly of the left.
In spite of the ‘Gillette – the best a man can get’ first 20 seconds, I thought this video was excellent. Could have been more blood-curdling-shocking though.