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In reply to the discussion: Charles P Pierce- The President's worst moment [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)Now that the president has actually fessed up to torture, it's no longer possible to move on without some retribution for those who actually commissioned or did the torturing. This will remain a stain on our national honor forever unless we prove to the world that we won't accept this sort of thing.
Of course, the president tried to walk a narrow path between praising the torturers as patriots and admitting that the torture itself was wrong. Predictably he pissed off both supporters and opponents of torture.
I used to think he'd eventually learn that there were people in this country who were going to hate his guts no matter what he did and that he'd stop trying to appease them. But no, after he jumped backwards through his own asshole to avoid call Dick Cheney a war criminal, Cheney's daughter unloaded on him for not calling her draft dodger daddy a patriot often enough.
There's no statute of limitations on war crimes. I hope that someday we will have a president who realizes that the actions of a rogue administration are going to haunt the country until something is done to atone for them and the perpetrators are punished.