August 5, 2004
War crimes.
Digby has the details. Some of them, anyway, the ones we know. The British former prisoners are lucky, they got out. The rest are still there, still being tortured, still without hope, terrified and helpless.
Oh, yeah, and almost certainly innocent.
(Personally, I believe that those who try to assert that these people deserve what is happening to them should be forced to experience life as a prisoner in Gitmo themselves, for a few weeks. If they survive with their sanity intact, I'm sure they will have changed their opinion.)
Digby ends,
I am sick that this happened in my country's name. The men who signed the orders allowing this, Don Rumsfeld and George W. Bush, are war criminals.
Yes, they are, as is General Miller. They should be tried as such, before the World Court. Will they, though? Of course not.
And more fools we for letting justice be denied to those who have suffered and are suffering at our hands.
War criminals, domestic criminals, and worseL Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Libby, ....
There are so many people in the current administration that belong behind bars, we may need to contract out to the prison-industry to build a new annex of cells.
I wish: they'll never be prosecuted because they really are above (no, outside) the law. That sucks.