Torture stinks in every state.
To stop it, detainees relate
A falsehood questioners don’t know,
Then pause to find out if it’s so.
And if they can’t, they’ve later found
The information got, unsound.
And so they did more harm than good
With bad intent misunderstood.
Illicitly, George Bush demurred.
Dick Cheney nastily concurred:
They said that questioning, though raw,
Like waterboarding broke no law.
Their legal minions naturally,
Were all too happy to agree.
But do we view their politics
A crime instead of filthy tricks?
Barack Obama seems to flirt
With second thoughts he must avert:
Attorney General Holder ought
To think of prosecuting?— Not!
The issue’s whiz is John McCain,
POW years in pain.
In time, he said, the prisoners break
And sometimes false confessions make.
Some anti-U.S. words he said.
Unpatriotic, though? Drop dead!
However viewed as senator,
War hero is he, evermore.
So when he talks of torturing
And foes it might be beckoning,
My nightmare’s what I’ve most abhorred:
A GI on a waterboard.
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