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Does Bush Believe That McCain Was Tortured?

By The Daily Dish
Aug 19 2008, 5:14 AM ET

Agabuse

This post seems to have taken off in the last hour. I'd be more than happy to air any counter-arguments. I can't see that there are any:

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

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