# McCain on Torture

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-on-torture/331226>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 15, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-on-torture/331226 "2005-11-15T21:47:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-on-torture/331226/41 "2005-11-16T22:02:58Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> The subject today is the Bush administration’s use of torture, it is not working here.

That’s what you want to make it, but the OP left it pretty wide open.

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> Based on the current context the answer is yes, they are pro-torture.

Well, that ends the debate, then, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, the real world is more complex than that. Might was well lable NARAL pro-baby killing while we’re at it.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-on-torture/331226/42 "2005-11-17T00:32:35Z")

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> [@John Mace](#):
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> Well, that ends the debate, then, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, the real world is more complex than that. Might was well lable NARAL pro-baby killing while we’re at it.

I don’t know, is the administration guiding NARAL’s current intelligence?

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