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[Victoria Delsoul]

Now Congress wants to outlaw these methods — said to have yielded valuable intelligence — by passing a prohibition on "cruel, inhumane or degrading" treatment. Even the "enhanced" techniques employed at Gitmo may not survive. The McCain amendment may make sense as a public relations move to counter a tidal wave of negative publicity. But it could lead to an anomalous result: a system that treats captured terrorists better than we treat our own soldiers.

I positively can't stand McCain. His liberal proposals like his Campaign Finance Reform serve to undermine the Bush administration and to gain favor with the left and our critics overseas. Torture is illegal in America, we already know that, but what the McCain amendment will do is to stop the use of coercive interrogation tactics to extract vital information. This “torture” ban will give terrorists like Al-Qaeda the right to convince the courts to interfere with the conduct of the war on terror. Imagine if a terrorist is caught, and and he and other terrorists plan to carry out another attack like 9/11, the McCain ban will allow the attack to take place, since the only one caught wouldn't willingly provide any information.