Reply #42: They have not ended torture!

[sabrina 1]

People are being tortured under this administration. Cheney is pleased with the policies.

Disavowing and ending something, holding accountable those responsible, are two entirely different things, especially if you or your loved are the ones being torture. Or if you were tortured in the past and try to get some justice, but the new administration refuses to give you your day in court.

Torture is against all of our laws. A simple order from the CIC that torturers WILL be punished according to the law would have ended it.

That is what we worked for. It hasn't happened. Two years and going into the third and the U.S. is still torturing and refusing to prosecute torturers.

But while the administration has disavowed torture, it has made little effort to hold accountable those who authorized it.

It has made NO effort. In fact we have discovered from the leaks in the Wikileaks cables, that this administration actively intervened in Spain's attempt to hold Bush torturers accountable, to protect them.

I have no idea why a democrat such as yourself would even attempt to defend the torture of even one human being. But there was no such defense of Bush airc.

Torture is against the Geneva Conventions. Anyone who condones it, especially if they are in a position of power, is violating the law. Cheney is happy to be able to say to democrats 'see, you're doing it also' hoping that they will be silenced on the issue because now it their leaders who are doing it.

I hope he is proven wrong and that no Democrat will condone it just because it is now being done under a democratic administration.