The Hill: A fellow torture victim splits with Sen. McCain

[Rose Siding]

Two highly decorated veterans who were held captive together in a Vietnamese prison camp more than three decades ago find themselves nose to nose today over U.S. policy on torture.

In a draft letter circulated to some rank-and-file Republican colleagues but not sent, Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) asks the top House defense appropriators to exclude from a defense-spending conference report the anti-torture provision added to the Senate version of the bill by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
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Political differences are nothing new for Johnson and McCain, who were held in the same cell in Vietnam. When McCain ran for president in 2000, Johnson backed fellow Texan George W. Bush.

“I happened to be with McCain for the last year and a half in a prison camp over there in Vietnam. I know him pretty well … and I can tell you, he cannot hold a candle to George Bush,” Johnson said at a Bush campaign rally, according to the Knight Ridder News Service.

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Some Republicans are just truly creepy.