Reply #59: Sorry. You asked in your post if any polling had been done on the question [View All]

[scarletwoman]

I answered in the affirmative -- unfortunately without a link handy (which I haven't yet had time to find) -- and stated that to the best of my recollection this recent poll showed that a majority of Americans did NOT support torture.

Yes, the article I cited in my OP is about politics, but it is also a call for transcending political calculation in a matter that so urgently cries for taking an unequivocal MORAL stand.

If I am missing the point of your question, my sincere apologies. The best I can probably do at this point is to offer my personal stand, which is (as you said yourself): torture is evil. Any Democrat that enables this bill to pass by not likewise taking the firm stance that torture is evil is a spineless enabler of this evil.

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