Dam*ed hypocrites...!

Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain, formerly against waterboarding--after all, the guy knows firsthand what torture is all about--is now ok with it.

“All I can say is that it was used in the Spanish Inquisition, it was used in Pol Pot’s genocide in Cambodia, and there are reports that it is being used against Buddhist monks today,” McCain said in interview with the New York Times in response to Giuliani comments. “They should know what it is. It is not a complicated procedure. It is torture.”

But on Wednesday, when the Senate voted on the intelligence bill, which includes a provision that effectively bans waterboarding from being used as an interrogation technique by all 16 intelligence agencies, McCain voted against the bill.

The bill passed 51-45, but President Bush has promised to veto it. [Of course he has.]

Gotta throw those contentious conservatives a bone!

To quote my dad vis-à-vis presidential candidates, "You can't believe any of 'em!"

Good thing you can't (yet) be tortured in America for hypocrisy.