Huffington Unimpressive Again

In another attack dog strike at John McCain, Huffington once again proves how extremists are unable to see the eccentricities in complex issues. In the article called, "John McCain Sells His Soul to the Right: Backs Off on Torture Ban", Huffington proves herself either too dense or too enraged from GWB syndrome to understand that our military and intelligence agencies are different weapons against terror and obviously cannot be utilized or regulated in the exact same way.

She begins her rant with this, "Has there ever been a more repugnant example of political pandering than John McCain's decision to vote against a bill banning waterboarding, putting hoods on prisoners, forcing them to perform sex acts, subjecting them to mock executions, or depriving them of food, water, and medical treatment?" The level of intellectual dishonesty in this statement comes straight out of the Karl Rove handbook. She might as well have written that McCain was against a bill banning the eating interrogatees' body parts in order to gain information. Huffington implies with this statement that all of the acts she mentions are not already illegal and John McCain is a-okay with them.

Huffington then goes into a not surprisingly simple argument as to why McCain has gone against everything he has ever said about torture by voting against the bill, "The CIA has to abide by rules prohibiting torture but we can't tie the CIA's hands by making it abide by rules prohibiting torture. Straight talk, RIP...What's more, McCain said he voted against the bill because it would be a mistake to "tie the CIA to the Army Field Manual" -- a Manual he gave a ringing endorsement to in a November debate". Let me put forth the obvious, John McCain believes that the CIA should work within the rules of not only the Geneva Convention, but also any other international treaty the US has signed and federal law. He has said it on the Senate floor, he believes it, his opinion will not change. The Army Field Manual is for the Army. Federal rules and regulations are for guess who? Civilians. In no way did McCain ever say that the CIA did not have to abide by rules prohibiting torture. To say such a thing is an outright lie.

What Huffington does not understand is that in the real world, our military and intelligence agencies are regulated in completely different ways, one military and the other civil. In the real world, the US military is the face of the United States in foreign countries all over the world and the CIA is the hidden force gathering intelligence and sadly overthrowing the occasional government. In other words, they are not to be seen and they do the dirty work that other countries are to not know about. It is obvious that the US military has to be held to a higher standard than even the average American. As the face of America, their actions are on the front page of every newspaper from here to Timbuktu. Why Huffington does not realize this or refuses to acknowledge this is either a result of her own lack of brain power or most likely her bias for Barrack Obama shining through.

I find these types of attacks on John McCain disgusting. The man fought for this country. The man endured years of torture, turning down his own freedom because he could not abandon his fellow soldiers. To attack a man that has been tortured because of his specific stance on torture is the type of pathetically bias political maneuver that should be categorized with the Swift-boaters for Truth.

Huffington has become exactly the same type of political monster she once spoke out against. Now who is the hypocrite?