One of the only principled stances that John McCain has ever taken is against legalized torture by the United States. He has repeatedly said that waterboarding is not legal and should not be used. Today, he changed his mind and voted against banning the practice.
A civilized country should never official condone torture. Torture is something used by tyrants. As McCain has pointed out previously, torture simply does not work. If someone has your testicles in a vice, you will say anything to get that vice removed, the truth may come out, but so could anything else.
Once you open pandora's box of torture, where do you go from there? If the guy won't crack under waterboarding, do you rape his wife and children in front of him? What if that doesn't work?
We as a society must draw a line in the sand. McCain had done this in the past but has proved himself to be quite a waffle on this issue. As I have said in the past, he is the most dangerous candidate out there.
2008-02-14
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McCain is very dangerous and ridiculous and should not be president. On another note, I think torture is a good thing and should only be used on people who absolutely have ties to terrorists and their plots. They should only be tortured if the gov't knows for sure they are involved or know someone involved.
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