It has been years since we invaded Iraq and used the military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold prisoners. A long time but now we have a new president and we are finally getting some clarity on the Bush Administration's use of torture.
Will this period of time be our Nazi moment? A period when we treated people as less than human and justified that behavior to ourselves as necessary for our nation? Everyone knows that the Nazi's were evil and we would never do anything like they did...
Time will tell.
Time will also tell how many American's are even capable of understanding the question and its importance to the rule of law and our national ethics.
Probes of Bush Officials Loom
Obama Opens Door to Prosecuting Interrogation Architects; Republicans Rip Comments
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama raised the possibility of prosecuting Bush administration lawyers who approved so-called enhanced interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
Mr. Obama, speaking to reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office, also laid out the parameters for a bipartisan commission to examine government tactics used in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, although he was careful to say he wasn't endorsing such a panel.
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