John "We Don't" McTorture

John McCain must be a terribly tortured soul - assuming he has a soul to begin with. He is certainly the most tortuously dishonest candidate to run for president since... well, since the last president we elected, George W. (as in "We don't torture") Bush. It is indeed a puzzlement that this disgusting piece of trash posing as a man in a suit has anyone willing to support him, but the polls tell us that about half the country does. We're doomed.

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Thus, once again, McCain created a self-image as a principled torture opponent with one hand, and with the other, ensured a legal framework that would not merely fail to ban, but would actively enable, the President’s ability to continue using interrogation methods widely considered to be torture. Indeed, by casting himself as the Supreme Arbiter of torture morality, McCain's support for this torture-enabling law became Bush and Cheney's most potent instrument for legalizing the very interrogation methods that McCain, for so long, flamboyantly claimed to oppose.

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