Go ahead. Pretend it`s okay to hide the torture photos.

[democrank]

What`s next? Burning the list of all the disappeared? Saying civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan don`t count? We could go on pretending and hiding and overlooking until there`s nothing left of what America once stood for.

What the hell are we teaching our young people? Our soldiers? That it`s okay to hang someone from their wrists for two or three days? That we can wire electrodues to someones genitals if we feel like it? That we can stand by while children are raped...as long as they`re not OUR children? That because we have a lot of power we can swagger and strut around anywhere in the world? That we can blow up anything we want to? Kill anyone we want to? Take over as many countries as we want to? Jesus. What has happened to us?

Any member of Congress worth a plug nickel should be standing in front of a microphone right now demanding an end to this barbarism and full accountability for those responsible. No hiding. No excuses. No stalling. No pretending.

If we think we`re doing our soldiers a favor by sweeping this under the rug, we`re dead wrong. Do you really think nobody in the world has any idea about what we`ve been up to in the torture department? Don`t you think our soldiers are LESS SAFE because of our torture policies? It`s a sorry day when our own representatives (and many of the people who elected them) stand up in support of torture....or at the very least, support covering it up.