Reply #27: You go too far when you absolve BushCo completely

[Tactical Progressive]

These are the people who did everything they could to legally shield all their war actions from culpability. War crimes, prisoners held without rights, even Americans, foreign control of prisoners to get around human rights violations. That doesn't mean that they are soley responsible, but they are responsible in more than just the 'I'm in charge so technically I'm responsible.' way. They set up the environment for all of this to happen against alot of ongoing resistance to such an environment.

Their message has been coming from the top down and it is that while we unilaterally make up rules that everyone else must abide by, there are no rules that apply to us.

Maybe it would help if you would realize that the soldiers who did this are not the ones who did it.