Torture is bad, m’kay?

I don’t usually agree with John McCain, but props to him for calling for an investigation into new allegations of torture of prisoners in Iraq.

Y’know, it’s funny (not ha-ha funny) that after all the tortured arguments (pardon the expression) about whether it would be justified in various contrived “ticking bomb” scenarios, the actual torture that has taken place has been done for no good end, but rather out of what looks like a spirit of sheer sadism.