The Post and the Times both lead with stories of the House backing Sen. McCain's measure to make the torturing of detainees illegal. I was proud of our Congress for a moment, then it occurred to me that the use of torture should have never been an issue. It is particularly ironic, considering that when other issues arise in our country that are superiorly mundane in comparison, the notion of "morality" becomes a battle cry. I have spoken with former Vietnam POWs, and it rips at one's soul to look them in the eye and glimpse at their pain. We are now are no better than the savages that created those men - not to mention that we have condemned future POWs to an advanced tour of hell.
I finish with this question: did the Intelligence Community use the same tactics to gather the intelligence presented to prevent the September 11 attacks from occurring in the first place?
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Morality is such a crock. It's only the morality that they want to force on other, never a morality they intend to live themselves,
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