Reply #46: I agree with each of these statements

[Boondog]

and answer your question that it would not be fair. There hasn't been a lot of fairness for US soldiers for quite some time now. I add that I think Obama puts his life on the line every time he shows his face in public these hard days. He's got courage.

Holder's statement about not prosecuting the CIA operatives who carried out torture is one of those for which I reserved my right to disagree. I intend to critically support my disagreement with that decision and continue to advocate for adherence to the rule of law.

Releasing these memos was not just a spoonful of sugar for the bad medicine of Holder's statement, in my opinion. It was highly significant. I look around the internet and this site at all the discussion, revulsion, praise, and criticism it has engendered. It could be viewed in retrospect as a significant step down this tremendously difficult road of prosecuting our own citizens for war crimes.

Some problems the Bush administration left us are so big their resolution may only be accomplished, if at all, by efforts that span a generation or more. Losing 8 critical years on global warming, and a legally elected president in 2000 who most definitely would have taken significant steps to change US policy towards sustainability is one. A genocidal war started under false pretences, and the atrocious crimes committed therein, of course, is another.