Torturepallooza

One of the White House's torture policies is to destroy videotapes of people being tortured. Another is to call the few people we've released after we tortured them liars. A third is to keep innocent people we've tortured in prison indefinitely because--as victims of torture--they possess classified information about the way we treat our prisoners. All very savory stuff. And none of it, I'm sure, intended to keep members of the administration out of legal trouble.

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Since the Neurenberg principle of leadership responsibility for unlawful acts against humanity seems to be interred now in a grave filled with lime (from the US perspective), my only faint hope is that Bush and Cheney are forced to live in Bush's Paraguayian retreat (not subject to extradiction) because more principled nations pursue them (like Pinochet) literally to their own graves. We probably can't punish them as war criminals (although clearly guilty), but maybe we can make the rest of their earthly existence into a foretaste of the hell they deserve for eternity.

Posted by: JimPortlandOR on January 14, 2008 02:24 PM

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