Senator McCain spoke at a Columbia, S.C. campaign stop Saturday and said he wanted to create an Army Advisory Corps of 20,000 soldiers to act as military advisers and a new office of Strategic Services to fight terrorists. He would put them in a crash program in civilian and military schools to have more experienced speakers in strategically important languages to create a new specialty in interrogation.
He says by having this new group we will never have to feel motivated to torture anyone ever again. Then when asked if he knows our forces had engaged in torture, he said he did not know because he does not have that kind of information. What is going on here? He wants a special group so we don't have to torture but he does not know if we do torture under our present system. Is this the real "straight talking express" candidate?
Our country has done well interrogating the enemy over the years without torture. We are parties to the Geneva Convention, which prevents torture. We don't need another layer of our military who is supposed to make sure we don't torture and then have a President who thinks he can do whatever he wants to do and approve torture. We are in this water boarding and torture game now because of this President's reckless behavior.
If McCain becomes our next President then all he has to do is set the example and policy so that it will be clear: The United States does not get involved in torture, period. Everyone in the world needs to knows it.
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