Morally Bankrupt

Guess who voted for torture today? NY District 13's own Vito Fossella! That's right, while the Congress - even half the Republicans - voted 308-122 for a non-binding resolution supporting the Senate's ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in American custody, Vito Fossella voted against it.

Let's just be crystal clear about this. Vito Fossella couldn't even bring himself to symbolically oppose torture. What the freak????

Now let's just be clear, I don't oppose torture out of any sympathy for terror suspects. But I do have enormous sympathy for the for the American soldiers and service members who will live with a blot on their souls, and shame in their hearts, for the rest of their lives. Longer if you believe in that kind of thing. Everyone knows that torture produces bad information. -The kind of information that leads us into wars on false pretenses. But worse, it corrodes the moral spirit of this country. It doesn't just harm the detainees. It harms us. And that is a crying shame. Vito Fossella's failure to stand against that immorality is inexcusable.