David Gergen actually said...

I also think that we need to join as a country and -- and condemn this kind of practice.

Water-boarding is flat-out torture. We just ought to accept that. And it's something the United States should not do.

Water boarding is flat-out torture. We just ought to accept that as something that the United States should not do.

And that's why people like John McCain, on the Republican side, were so opposed to this sort of thing.