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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we as a people
are bound to be humane and enlightened, we must prosecute torturers.
It is not an if, it is a when.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Have to do something to acknowledge the horriffic mistake.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)prosecute each other. Another disgusting manifestation of "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." But we must demand better from our leaders.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)Slobodan Milosovic, Charles Taylor et al will disagree.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Which leaders get prosecuted and which don't probably has to do with national wealth and power I would suspect.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)euphemistically "Hard Choices" or we sell our souls.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)And not just the torturers themselves but anyone who ordered or signed off on torture as well. From DimSon and Cheney who ordered it, through everyone who signed off on it, right down to the torturers who enacted it. They should all go to prison for the rest of their natural lives.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Cheney and Rumsfeld just to put the pressure on the US to do likewise.
I've given up hope for us to do it because we are good.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Cheney's fake heart gives out that he is prosecuted and enjoys the comforts of Leavenworth. That would serve as a late Christmas present for everyone on Earth.
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)or their interpretations of laws anymore. I can do whatever I want just like they did. They earned that from me. They taught me and told me how to do it. Thanks torturers! (sarcasm?)
quarbis
(314 posts)I believe I won't live to see it.
My granddaughter who will 3 next month
Might
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)You know,....like the Trilateral Commission.
Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)officials to justice for their crimes of torture but the Obama administration was working hard behind the scenes to stop this and they (Obama administration) succeeded. Obama, being a constitutional scholar, was and is bound by his oath of office to prosecute war crimes, but I won't hold my breath.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)And we'll continue to rot from the inside out so long as they are given TV time to promote their views.
brer cat
(24,578 posts)while our prisons are full of people (mainly poc) for such minor offenses as marijuana possession, we are neither humane or enlightened.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Great idea, yours, Aerows!