Appeals Court Hears Abu Ghraib Torture Case

[Solly Mack]

2. During the Bush administration I predicted that people would relegate

torture, war crimes, and assorted other crimes against humanity committed by the U.S. government to the past as quickly as possible. The government certainly pushed that idea along and many Americans happily embraced it. Allowing them the false comfort of pretending it all happened so long that nothing can be done about it or that it no longer matters.

I'd wager to those tortured by the U.S. government that it still matters. For those tortured, it is never the past - it's written all over their bodies, it's forever imprinted on their brains, and it is relived in their nightmares.

But, hey, as long as America wants to put their own war crimes behind them and forget all that unpleasantness, who are the victims of torture to say otherwise?

(Snort)