In the Republican debate the three front runners: Rudy, McCain and Romney all said that they opposed the torture of a prisoner who was believed to have evidence of an impending act of violence. Or they him-hawwed. They claimed they would do "what ever was necessary" without using the "t" word specifically.  McCain actually said that "enhanced interrogation techniques" were torture and that he opposed it. Waterboarding was invented in the Inquisition, he claimed. So we are evil inquisitors if we torture terrorists who we know have knowledge of an impending attack?

We are not talking about rounding up every Moslem and in the country and randomly torturing them! We are not even talking about torturing every Islamist that is captured by our armed forces or police. We are talking about torturing a person who has likely knowledge of an impending attack! The pain of one individual trumps the lives of hundreds or thousands. McCain even says that we shouldn't torture ANYONE or we are then like our enemies. He could not be more wrong. He was no threat to the Vietnamese people when he and his fellows were tortured. They were tortured for the sake of cruelty and spite, not in an attempt to save innocent lives. The Senator's comparison is a slur to our intelligence people who are attempting to protect us. They do not use torture because they are sadists, but because they have sworn to protect the American people.

"Enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding are NOT  torture, and McCain knows it. CIA officers are subjected to waterboarding to help them learn out about counter-interrogation. Do we torture our own people? No.

How about a little lesson for the esteemed Senator. Pulling out teeth or fingernails? Torture. Listening to loud Christina Aguillera music? while painful I am sure, not torture. Being beaten or having bones broken in various ways? Torture. Not knowing which direction to pray? Not torture. See how easy this is? Having an "infidel" guard touch the object that you draw your evil ideology from? Not torture. Watching your loved ones jump to their deaths from a burning building that was intentionally targeted? Torture. Being denied the opportunity to practice the religion in whose name you have murdered? Not torture. McCain's "logic"? Torture.

Let me say that I would not reserve this to members of the "religion of peace", although I am sure everyone knows that is who we are discussing, but not because they commit terrorist acts or anything. If Neo-Nazis, if Southern Babtists, if I personally am believed to likely have knowledge of impending acts of mass murder I say torture away. How dare anyone sacrifice hundreds or thousands of lives to tout their "moral superiority".