There's a 'perfect storm' brewing. We won't be able to ride it out by hiding.

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The torture issue is quickly gathering to a head. The evident contradictions between what our leaders have said in the past, and what we now know to be true, can't be sustained more than a few days longer. The growing demand for honest answers will not relent.

The Democratic candidate who "gets out in front" of the issue of torture will earn national respect and win the White House. The candidate who tries to duck and weave will be blown apart when the storm hits. The Republican Party is already tearing. It will be ripped in two, with McCain on one side, and Cheney and the neoCons on the other. McCain's presidential bid is doomed without avid Far Right support. Once he's forced to repeat what he has said in the past - that water-boarding is torture - he won't get that support. And already, he's starting to lose primaries to Huckabee.

But Barack and Hillary are in danger too if they continue to play coy with such an emotionally-charged issue. Torture is an issue that defines our national character beyond any other. Nobody can admire a politician who is so politically cunning that he or she lacks basic moral clarity. This is too simple: Torture is evil.

Want your candidate to win? Then demand that they hold these admitted criminals to account.

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1. Jeffrey Dahmer could have been a Bush Hero

Think about that. Maybe he was just misunderstood... maybe he was just trying to get to the bottom of some nagging questions with enhanced interrogation techniques.