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Still...they aren't being prosecuted...and as long as they don't get prosecuted, "history" will be a matter of opinion..thanks to people promoting the warped thinking that torture is just a case of "policy differences"...and those that pretend that it is a matter of opinion on whether or not waterboarding is torture....and, not to forget, the lack of prosecutions.
All that combined has reduced war crimes to a matter of opinion (in America, anyway). US Newspapers still call torture "enhanced interrogation techniques" or "harsh" interrogation techniques..yet they call the exact same actions torture, when committed by other countries or individuals who are not American.
"History" (books used in K-12 will say) - "Critics called it torture" or "Some called it torture" or "Viewed by other nations as torture".
Now, some books written will call it torture (rightfully) and some books won't....again, making it seem like it was nothing more than a matter of opinion.
Yes, Cheney is a war criminal. So is Bush. So are many in the CIA, the DoD, the Bush cabinet, the Bush DOJ.....yet without America telling the truth...that YES - the US government did commit war crimes... that YES, the US government did torture people...and without prosecuting those war crimes.... the "history" of those war crimes will be seen as they said/we said.
One side will say it's only the opinion of people who hate Bush...the other side will point to the fact that Bush/Cheney admitted to torturing people. Then one side will say waterboarding isn't torture...the other side will (rightly) claim it is...then we'll hear how the DOJ said torture was now "legal" and done in "good faith"...and on and on...just as it was during the Bush years....the same shit will be repeated over and over again...all because the US lacks the courage to prosecute its own war criminals, because the US lies about its war crimes...because all too many people are despicable enough to just let the issue go.
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