Now that even in the United States the news media are talking openly and directly about the Bush administration's torture programs, isn't it time President Obama quits hiding and orders thorough and open investigations of this outrageous, illegal, immoral chapter in United States history? And isn't it soon going to be time to charge everyone involved, from George W. Bush down to the medical personnel who cooperated, with criminal acts of torture?
The Nuremburg War Crimes trials were organised by the winners of World War II. The winners this time must be the free people of the world--including United States citizens. And we must all act to bring the criminals to justice. Not to act is, in legal terms, to be accessories after the fact: and we, then, become guilty of the same offenses the Bush criminals committed.
Everyone in the Bush adnministration who had anything to do with torture, everyone who knew it was going on and kept quiet with that knowledge, should be prosecuted. And if our present president refuses to act, he too is an accessory--and he must also be charged with obstruction of justice. His oath of office must still be fresh in his mouth; he should recall what he said about upholding law and defending our constitution.
The justice system in Peru works; Alberto Fujimori was been convicted and sentenced. Does the United States justice system work, or are we cowards, afraid to bring our criminals to justice, afraid to admit in any official way that the United States has been acting as a rogue state?
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