good point that the media will ignore

Conservative Andrew Sullivan asks: Was Mccain really tortured?

Too bad for the McCain camp that it's a devoutly Catholic conservative writer and thinker who is asking the question. Gonna be interesting to see the McCain campaign try to demonize Andrew, and then see if they get away with it. My money is on Andrew winning that rhetorical battle.

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Hat tip, Ablog reader Jeff.

(Americablog)