“No, Mr. Salter, he would rather sacrifice his honor and live.”

Watch Taxi To The Dark Side to see the other way that equation plays out ? Get annoyed with all them detainees on screen did you ?

Been a lot of low, morally bankrupt statements seen in this campaign. Criticising someone for not being tortured to death does take the cake though. You could spend the next 2 weeks calling Obama nggr terrorist socialist arab nggr nggr nggr and you still wouldn’t top that.

Well, unless we find out Palin was raped and we could call out her moral cowardice for that occurring too.

I think it was on the fourth day that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size, shape and color of a football. I remembered that when I was a flying instructor a fellow had ejected from his plane and broken his thigh. He had gone into shock, the blood had pooled in his leg, and he died, which came as quite a surprise to us—a man dying of a broken leg. Then I realized that a very similar thing was happening to me.

When I saw it, I said to the guard, “O.K., get the officer.” An officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as “The Bug.” He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, “O.K., I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”

From “John McCain, Prisoner of War: A First-Person Account,” US News & World Report