664 ordspråk av John McCain
John McCain
strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans.
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Subjecting prisoners to abuse leads to bad intelligence because under torture a detainee will tell his interrogator anything to make the pain stop, ... Second, mistreatment of our prisoners endangers U.S. troops who might be captured by the enemy. ... And third, prisoner abuses exact on us a terrible toll in the war of ideas because inevitably these abuses become public.
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take the surplus and put it into Social Security and pay down the debt. We ought to pay down the debt, and we also ought to make Social Security solvent.
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Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.
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Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
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Thankfully it brings closure to the agony and uncertainty (that) many families have undergone for more than 25 years, as much as 30 years.
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That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.
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That doesn't move a final vote with the committee but just to hold a preliminary hearing, and I don't think that would be unreasonable,
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That is the last option. Everything else has to be exhausted. But to say under no circumstances would we exercise a military option, that would be crazy.
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that would basically allow the CIA to engage in torture.
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That's a hypothetical, because I don't believe I'm in the process,
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That's going to be a key and fundamental question,
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That's the area that I'm concerned about, ... because I'm not sure that the interrogators are fully aware of specific policies as to what they can and cannot do when interrogating a prisoner. And that's my point.
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That's the obligation that they have to protect the security of their people,
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That's what I am told the strategy is, ... I hope that it's not true. I hope that they won't do that.
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