For reasons we may agree or disagree with, it is apparent that charges will not be brought against those engaged in torture or supervised it as official policy during the Bush/Cheney administration -- at least not charges that originate with our present administration. It occurs to me that maybe the next best thing would be to pardon all those who were involved with the program. Why so? A pardon establishes officially for history that there was indeed a great crime, something we do not have formally established at present. If our history books are going to tell our children that Bill Clinton was impeached, I want them also to tell that Bush and Cheney adopted as official U.S. policy something completely contrary to the Geneva Conventions which we have signed, something completely contrary to International Law, and criminal acts for which the U.S. executed Japanese officers at the end of WWII. That might at least help keep things in proper perspective.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:54:24 +0000
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