Who Would Jesus Torture?

My Bible tells me it was the evil Roman Empire who used torture to oppress those sharing truth and knowledge. The evil Soviet Empire built gulags to torture and oppress those seeking truth and justice too. Now we learn that the Bush Administration is using former Soviet gulags as secret torture prisons?Do these twits not understand irony? Actually, irony isn't the right word. What is the word for something that is ironic, appalling, immoral, unconscionable, and may even border on crimes against humanity? The closest term I can think of is: the official policy promoted by Vice President Cheney.The hubris, the unmitigated and unbridled gall of Dick "I had other priorities than serving during Vietnam" Cheney going to the U.S. Senate and fighting against a bill written by torture victim John McCain. It really takes some balls to stand before McCain and say that torture should be a legitimate option for interrogating terrorists.Well, if the Vice President does have such durable testicles, perhaps they might come in handy to prove a point. If our esteemed vice-leader truly thinks torture is useful and in the best interests of the United States, it would be an interesting experiment to have a CIA interrogator drop by the Veep's office and show him how easy it is to get bad intelligence through torture.My bet is that if someone attached some electrodes to Mr. Cheney's testicles, he'd give up every secret he had, confess to the Natalie Holloway murder, and offer to to do Rockette kicks while singing "Happy Days are Here Again"... all before a single volt is ever applied. I'm guessing this because it's my theory that only cowards would prescribe torture.Yes, I'm saying that the Vice President is what folks down in Texas would call a "yellow-bellied sum-bitch." And if the President thinks torture is acceptable, then he's one too.Sorry my argument isn't more fleshed out... still kinda flabbergasted by the brazen obscenity of our country's leadership.