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In reply to the discussion: Forgive me if I roll my eyes at your precious outrage about torture. [View all]KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)utmost respect. In some ways, I feel I have been trying to match the achievements of the anti-war and civil rights movement(s) of the 60s and early 70s ever since, having missed out on them by about 10 years.
Were there justice, Bush and Cheney would be in the dock not for torture (or not solely for torture) but for the crime of having waged 'aggressive war' (what Nuremberg called the "supreme international crime" , torture having been but one component of that larger crime. That no one has been held to account other than 4 lowly enlisted GIs is enough to really make me despair and TrueBlue's thread did nothing to lessen that.
I did exactly what Ron Kovic advised me to do and it didn't make one damned bit of difference. Now how fucking depressing is that?