Reply #118: Jesus H. Christ

[RainDog]

you and others like you need to recognize, tho I thought you surely would by now, that TORTURE IS A WAR CRIME. GONZALES "LEGALIZED" TORTURE. To enable this practice to go unprotested and unremarked, for some in this nation, is morally reprehensible and impossible to do because our consciences recognize the atrocity of this act.

The Bush administration still refuses to accept that they arrested and rendered for torture an innocent Canadian citizen, even after Canada conducted a two year study and awarded the man millions in damages simply by their act of ALLOWING the Bush administration to torture this man.

This is not about politics in those terms.

MaybeI'm nearer to Peoria than you are, so let me tell you that people on the right and left are horrified by this administration, and by Congress' refusal to hold them accountable for their criminal actions. For now, my consolation is in knowing that they are liable for charges of war crimes for the rest of their lives.

So, your posts decrying this action as "not good politics" reek of the worst in this society for many of us.

Some of us cannot apply "moral relativity" to the issue of torture and think that if this nation is so corrupt that it cannot face its war criminals, then we are in a sad place and no political party will stop this decay by politics as usual.