Torture, anyone?
Since John McCain's anti-torture amendment passed the senate by a sound margin, it appears that a certain administration is trying to create loopholes to allow torture to be carried out by certain agencies. What does everyone think of that?

I, personally, am against torture as a general rule. However, I do feel that in DIRE circumstances, perhaps a little "coercion" is required. If someone's life depended on information that could reliably be extracted from someone via torture, then perhaps I could let that slide. This, I'd assume, creates a slippery slope, what with different "definitions" of "dire." So, I dunno. I thought it was a pretty salient topic, and thought I'd open something of a dialogue...