I Do Believe I See a Swoon!

It looks today like the Washington Post is running out a new meme for Senator John McCain.

The message, put succinctly is this: John McCain isn’t a political sellout, willing to take whatever position endears him to the MSM at any given moment. Look how he risks his political future by standing up the the President and against cruel torture!

Except that it’s not exactly true.

Here is what John McCain is standing up for:

1. The lack of a clear standard for what does and does not contistitute cruelty under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

   Even the Post get this amazingly wrong as it accuses the President of asking Congress “to let the administration interpret the Geneva Conventions as it sees fit”. Interesting enough, if you follow the link in that article that comes right before this brazen falsehood, you’ll find another article that says the President “insisted on legislation more specifically defining what is banned so intelligence officers would not worry about being charged with war crimes”. These cannot both be true. So which one is it?

   According to the President, he wants the latter. The former is simply journalistic fiction designed to make McCain look very good indeed.

2. the canard that if other nations will feel at liberty to abuse our prisoners if we do anyting more than the “rainbows and ponies” treatment that we’re told we must afford detainees.

   That is, as I’ve demonstrated in the past, one of the sillest arguments I’ve ever heard an educated person make. It is obvious to anyone with a minimal knowledge of history that our enemies have never afforded our soldiers the protections demanded by the Geneva Conventions. It’s not happened in any war that I can recall and it’s surely not happening in this one.

That’s not a bold statement in support of anything but his own self-interest. Taking such a stand only endears him more closely to the press which can pretty easily write yet another glowing article after another as we get closer to 2008 so that his disgrace on this issue fades from memory.

I’ll tell you this. Should more Americans die in a terrorist attack, it will be, in part, because we could not get information we needed from someone we either had in custody or were actively attempting to question. I’d bet money on it because that’s what’s happened in the past.

I will not hesitate to blame the brave maverick John McCain for those deaths.

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Category: Fighting the Islamists, Oh, THAT liberal media., President George Bush