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Thursday, March 13, 2008

no more torture

After reading the 35 articles contained in the Washington Monthly’s Jan/Feb/March 2008 edition (link here) that were collected under the No More Torture headline, I must say that I’m impressed with the American Security Project, the Washington Monthly, and with the movement in general. But something underneath it all disturbs me greatly.

In spite of the rants, diatribes, editorials and speeches against the highly illegal torture policies of the George W. Bush administration that have gone around the media in the last few years, I must, for the nth time, stop and ask myself why on earth a man like “W” is still in office. For someone who is, as Leon Panetta so aptly pointed out, required “to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution,” why is it so difficult for us to kick him out when he fails in such a grand and, shall we say, defiant manner? Why are we rewarding a man who is debatedly the most inept, brainless, and spineless President this nation has ever seen by letting him retire from office without him having to first stand trial in a horizontally-striped suit before Congress?

Since the authors pointed out on numerous occasions the fact that this administration is just as guilty as those leaders during the Nuremberg trials of war crimes, the obvious question presents itself: When can we put Bush, Cheney and the rest of their yes-men on trial, find them guilty, and give them the royal one-fingered salute as we usher them into the afterlife? (Hint to the clueless: this is not a rhetorical question).

And since I mentioned it, I wish to add that I disagree with those who are saying we should close down Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Barring a death sentence for Bush and those guilty parties of his administration, I can’t think of a more suitable place where they should be locked up for the rest of their lives.

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