Apparently Senator McCain has had a change of heart about the legality of waterboarding. One of the few areas where he seemed to not wish to pander to the torture-lovers on the GOP side, and now that seems gone.
I really don't want to get started on this issue, mainly because I try to keep myself from going off on expletive filled rants. However, I must say that it is embarrassing and depressing to me that we are even debating crap like waterboarding. Torture is cruel, undemocratic, and questionably effective. Someday people will look back on this era and shake their head, much as we do now about the Japanese internment during World War II, or the Alien & Sedition acts of John Adams. Sacrificing our nations principles for the expediency of war is not worth it, and should not be condoned. Yet President Bush has constantly pushed for it, and the complicit Republicans and weak-ass Democrats have done nothing to stop it.
But hey, anything to stop the big bad terrorists, right?
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