Moral Crusader Rick Santorum

I have a friend that works for Senator Bob Casey of PA. Back when I would get to talk to this friend quite a bit, Casey was not yet a senator and was running against then Senator Rick Santorum. So my friend would always have these hilarious stories about Santorum and his quest for Biblical morals to be legislated and applied to everyone but him of course. I miss those stories.  I really do.

Losing in 2006 by a huge margin hasn't silenced Santorum's political agenda one bit. He laughingly ran for president two years later and is poised to run again in '12.  Santorum, as a servant of God, has been pro-torture for quite some time.  He believes waterboarding led to the killing of bin Laden.  Like I said, he believes in the moral values of the Bible.

Yesterday, though, was just a sad day in general for Santorum's torture views.  And that's really saying a lot about a guy who in 2006 declared we found WMD in Iraq.

Speaking to Justin Elliot at Salon, Santorum said he believes John McCain doesn't understand how torture works.

I don't, everything I've read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation. And so this idea that we didn't ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they're broken, they become cooperative. And that's when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that's how we ended up with bin Laden.

Quite incredible really. John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for five and a half years. McCain was routinely subjected to a state-sanctioned torture policy that left him permanently disabled. He's had both arms and legs broken numerous times from being tortured. If there is anyone who understands how torture works it's John McCain. But because McCain is against having the United States of America renew its Bush-era torture policy, and rightly believes torture did not lead to the killing of bin Laden, Santorum has to put him in his place and not only question his patriotism but his devotion to this country. There probably isn't a person alive who has done more or endured more for America than McCain. In Rick Santorum's world, opposing Bush policies is enough to discredit all that.

*Update:

Santorum, as usual, has said his comments about McCain were taken out of context.  He told CNN:

I disagree with Senator McCain's view that the enhanced interrogation techniques used on a select few high-value terrorist detainees were unsuccessful nor do I believe they amounted to torture," Santorum said in a statement Wednesday. "For anyone to infer my disagreement with Senator McCain's policy position lessens my respect for his service to our country and all he had to endure is outrageous and unfortunate.

Saying McCain doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works is like saying Clinton doesn't know how impeachment works. Luckily for the entire nation, and world at large, Charlie Sheen has a greater chance of winning the presidency.