when it's time to prosecute the gitmo guys, the bu$h*/cheney torture program will be exposed

[spanone]

or maybe not

some of the bad guys will walk because of what bu$h*/cheney did .

this is what they call 'keeping us safe'

~snip~
“We tortured Qahtani,” Judge Crawford said, adding that she was therefore unable to prosecute a man who seemed to pose a real threat to the United States.

Judge Crawford was not the only one speaking out. Major David Frakt of the Air Force Reserve, who was assigned to defend another Guantánamo prisoner, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that he and all the other defense lawyers in the system consider the tribunals “unfair, rigged” and unconstitutional. He noted that his client’s prosecutor resigned to protest the lack of evidence in the case.

That is the real nature of Mr. Bush’s grotesque legacy: abuse and torture at an outlaw prison where hundreds of men — many of whom did nothing — have been held for years without real evidence or charges. And truly dangerous men were treated so badly that it may be impossible to bring them to justice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/opinion/18sun1.html?pagewanted=print

[Atman]

1. BushCo didn't care in the slightest. They just needed them out of the way...

...while they looted Iraq and counted their war profits.

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[spanone]

2. this is why prosecutions are so necessary...imo

[annabanana]

3. The "worst of the worst"

will need to be co-opted to get them off the "battelfield". This, of course, will be politically impossible what with the "coddling the enemy" thing, but seriously, it is the only thing that would stop them.

This occured to me when there was that flurry of publicity for the book about the kamikazi pilots that came out recently. They are all HUGE America-boosters since they realized that their old bosses had fed them nothing but lies about our Country.