[lbo-talk] 'John McCain was not tortured', says guard

[James Heartfield]

James Heartfield wrote:
> Well, forgive me, but I do doubt the inmates at Guantanamo

To which John Thornton replied
>Then why not show the same reluctance to cast doubt on McCain's story

But I am *not* reluctant to cast doubt on the inmates at Guantanamo. I doubt 
their story, Let me say it again, I doubt the prisoners accounts of torture 
in Guantanamo. That's what you should do with any account.

By the same token, you doubt the Vietnamese prison guard? But for reasons I 
cannot understand, you do not doubt John McCain, who I would not trust to 
count my change.