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DonViejo

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Sun Nov 20, 2016, 01:08 PM Nov 2016

McCain warns Trump on torture, waterboarding

Republican Sen. John McCain issued a fiery warning to President-elect Donald Trump on the subject of torture Saturday.

“I don’t give a damn what the president of the United States wants to do. We will not waterboard,” McCain told an audience at the annual Halifax International Security Forum. “We will not torture people … It doesn’t work.”

Trump has repeatedly said that he would use much harsher measures against suspected terrorists. “We have to fight fire with fire,” he said at a June campaign rally, adding that the U.S. would have to “fight so viciously and violently” against the Islamic State.

“What do you think about waterboarding?” Trump asked the crowd, which cheered his answer: “I like it a lot. I don’t think it’s tough enough.” At a Republican primary debate in February, Trump vowed that he would “bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”

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McCain warns Trump on torture, waterboarding (Original Post) DonViejo Nov 2016 OP
Lumpy you have fun now. lonestarnot Nov 2016 #1
Grandpa grunts like a fart in the wind. SHRED Nov 2016 #2
Like ... LenaBaby61 Nov 2016 #3

LenaBaby61

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Sun Nov 20, 2016, 04:09 PM
Nov 2016

that pos tRump will pay that other pos ANY dust.

NOPE.

McLame needs to go sit back down on his lawn chair and guard his lawn from the kids who keep stepping on it. Or at the very least, sit down with a cold brew and look at the shapes of the clouds going by to see if he can spot fun shapes in them like dogs or cottonballs. He's been totally irrelevant since he bought us that dumb hussy Sarah "brass knuckles & half term quitting Governor" Palin, and her fighting in bread family.

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