Torture. Are you for it or against it in times of stress or war? If you have a known terrorist who might know about an attack - would it be right to cut his toes off one by one to extract the information and thus save lives? The good news is that 63 percent of our nation STILL thinks that is unacceptable. However, there is one specific senator . . .

Here are the words of the Republican chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Trent Lott:

"Frankly, to save some American troops' lives or a unit that could be in danger, I think you should get really rough with them. Some of those people should probably not be in prisons in the first place."

He doesn't elaborate here. Was he talking about a slab? Remember, this is the man who thought Strom Thurman was cute when he ran on an anti-integration ticket.

More Lott. When asked about the photo showing a prisoner being threatened with a dog, Lott was unmoved.

"Nothing wrong with holding a dog up there unless it ate him.(They just) scared him with the dog."

"Lott was reminded that at least one prisoner had died at the hands of his captors after a beating.

"This is not Sunday school. This is interrogation. This is rough stuff."

Well, if your Sunday School was into showing "The Passion," perhaps it is.

He's a real credit to his party, isn't he? Well, actually he is. In the same poll that showed 63 percent of Americans saying no way on torture, more than 40 percent who claimed they were Republicans said they saw no problem with torture in times of war or terror stress.

War does awful things to our Nation.