The Scars of Our Torture

I was watching MSNBC last night, specifically Obermann and Maddow, actuallly before I go any further I need to mention something about Keith Obermann. First I like Obermann's show. Seems like a nice guy, sense of humor's a little dorky but hey we all got quirks. Mine involves feathers but we don't need to go there right now. Anyway what is up with the Obermann show. It's like the same 4 or 5 yes men all the time. "your absolutly right Keith" or "I couldn't agree more Keith". I can't remember the last guest he had that you could call even mildly confrontational.
Actually this started out about something I saw on the two shows. Both shows spent some time reporting that in a brand new interview Dick Cheney admitted to War Crimes as a breaking news headline but actually Dick Cheney acknowledged this about a month ago in a McClatchy news service story. They reported "Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called "water-boarding," which creates a sensation of drowning." I had linked to this story here on this blog in the middle of November.
One of my concerns going forward is that those within our government guilty of War Crimes will not be held accountable. I don't know how, as a people governed by Law, we could let this happen? If we do nothing, If we just refuse to bring criminals to justice. Then it will not be those few that are to blame. It will be all of use who are responsible, it will be our Nation as a whole that will bare the scars of our torture.

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