Here are the top five reasons you should not vote for John McCain.
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1) John McCain positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year. We really don't need any more pollution.
2) The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.
3) According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi.
4) His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.
When pictures like the one below were later released to the general public, it was hard to deny that at least some American soldiers had crossed the line while in Iraq.
For me ... there are two things that jump out at me from this picture.
1) If you take a look at the upper right leg of the foreground prisoner (click picture to enlarge), it becomes painfully obvious that good spelling is not a strict requirement for a US military prison guard.
And …
2) This would be the first rapist I have seen with his hands tied and his underwear pulled down to the middle of his leg.
Although this method of torture sells newspapers and gives mid-western military personnel their sexual jollies, I think there is a much better way.
Historically Americans have been resourceful when approaching their problems, and I think this situation is no different. I believe we have resources in this country, which could be successfully used to torture enemy captives in such cruel ways that they would have no choice but to eventually spill the beans.
For example, I believe that enemy combatants would sooner die than be tied to chairs and forced to watch endless Ashley Simpson videos.
I believe that this would crack most of them open like eggs. However, some would require harsher torture, and for those evildoers, we would fly them to New York City.
These forms of torture would certainly test the limits of the Geneva Convention, but I am sure they would be effective.
In the event that more was needed, we could turn to one of our allies in the War on Terror. John Howard and Australia could provide us with such a horrific torment that no Al-Qaeda terrorist would stand a chance in Hell. The CIA has often traveled overseas to torture its prisoners, so this would not be unusual.
Upon arriving down under via Qantas Airways, the hardest of the hard prisoners would be denied sleep and forced to watch back-to-back seasons of "The Wiggles".
