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South Korea to spend $7.4 billion on fighter jets
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- Key word, defense! Now we need leaders that know how to use that DEFENSE as a defense, not as a threat of war or to be the bully on the block. For the last 50 years, we have not had one of those leaders to know the difference between defense and offence.
South Korea to spend $7.4 billion on fighter jets
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- General Horner said it best. "The person that HATES war the most is the military man". There is the demand to have a strong defense, but also a demand for a good leader to use it wisely and only necessarily, not when it is a a convenience.
South Korea to spend $7.4 billion on fighter jets
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- So we save thousands from being out of work, but we kill thousands in the process. Good idea!
US drones provoke outrage in Iraq
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- Then you're SOL.
US drones provoke outrage in Iraq
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- .Paul wants to turn over ALL responsibilities of the federal government to the state.
US, Taliban talks on prisoner swap falter
Sun Jan 29, 2012
- Allegations surfaced that William Casey, director of the Reagan campaign, and some CIA operatives, secretly met with Iranian officials in Europe to arrange for the hostages' release, but not until after the election.
US drones provoke outrage in Iraq
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- The North Koreans still have the Pueblo too.
US drones provoke outrage in Iraq
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- Bob You authorized the government to spend by voting.
US drones provoke outrage in Iraq
Mon Jan 30, 2012
- Ron is 1 heartbeat from death.
Trash piling up faster along border with Mexico
Sun Jan 29, 2012
- Well, if the government would start to arrest the EMPLOYERS and put them in jail for hiring illegals, there wouldn't BE any jobs here for them, now would there.

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The left proving my point. I'm talking about "torture". We were doing what we could to save thousands of American lives. At least here we actually had captured people that were doing whatever they could to kill Americans. And they are the ones we "tortured". Hell, they even had doctors on staff in case it went to far!! This was intended to save American lives, just like the bombing of Japan. So you're saying killing thousands of women and children blindly is O.K., but to waterboard a single person at a time is against our morals???? Your reasoning doesn't hold water.
— mike-1061693

I've not read much about McCain's experiences in captivity, but I remember hearing he received injuries as a result of his ejection (which was common among the pilots shot down), and from being tortured, more specifically by having his hands bound behind his back, then hoisted off the floor by a rope attached to the wrists, and through a pulley in the ceiling, resulting in the shoulders popping out of socket. I have read Jeremiah Denton's book "When Hell Was In Session", and another POW's book, whom I can't recall his name now, and that was something they went through as well. As bad as this sounds, its really not as bad as some of the other stuff they endured. I remember one pilot's story telling of his 1st day being thrown into a small cell, and his cell mate had a compund fracture on his leg, and rats would chew on his flesh if he tried to sleep. The pilot himself had broken bones from his ejection, and he didn't get treatment either.
I'm not a big McCain fan politically, but I sure can't thank him enough for the price he has paid. Thanks for your service John!
— tmar-422130