Obama, Holder and Panetta want us to believe that those in the Bush White House, beginning with Bush. Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice who promulgated these monstrous policies of torture, were acting in good faith when they ordered that prisoners be tortured and in some instances beaten or suffocated to death.
If Obama and his crew get away with this sleight of hand trick of claiming on the one hand that they will not torture, but that those on the other hand who did torture must not be prosecuted, then the Obama Administration will have overruled Nuremberg and put themselves irrevocably in the infamous camp of those who enable grievous crimes against humanity.
Does anyone among us doubt that any future American president can get some willing attorneys to give them a “legal” opinion that whatever they do is kosher, as long as it is wrapped in the red, white and blue?
No one in the future could be prosecuted for grave crimes since Bush and Cheney et al got away with it.
The rule of law will be a dead letter. It is now, as a result of the Bush regime, on life support, with the Obama Administration starting to pull the plug out of the wall.
It doesn’t matter how many times President Obama and his cabinet declare solemnly “no one is above the law.” They could say it a million times and it won’t matter.
Will Americans allow Obama and his people to commit this atrocity and allow the Bush gang to go unpunished for their terrible deeds?
Matters of this momentousness cannot be left to others. They must be taken hold of by people of conscience with both hands and not relinquished till hell freezes over.
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