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Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Torture

Even though senator was tortured in Vietnam.

This won’t turn out well. Speaking with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday, former senator and current GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum had some harsh words for his former colleague John McCain: "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works." Santorum supports the techniques, which are widely believed to be torture, so it’s only logical that he’d disagree with McCain, who has been outspoken in opposing them, most recently in a Washington Post op-ed and an impassioned Senate speech last week. But Santorum may have forgotten McCain’s history: while a prisoner of war in Vietnam, the decorated war hero was himself subject to torture. Santorum has never served in the military. Waiting for the walkback in three, two, one …