Frank Rich has a pretty good piece in today's Times about the myriad scandals of the Bush Administration. The looting of the Federal treasury encouraged by the Bush Administration makes the money that Bernie Madoff stole look about as much like chump change as $50 billion could ever look.
Beyond the cash that was siphoned off by Bush's friends, we need to get down to the bottom of the torture allegations and hold meaningful trials. We cannot, as a nation, regain our honor anytime soon without doing that. If we refuse to hold the Bushies accountable for torture, then we will not have any moral high ground from which to ever accuse another nation of human rights abuses.
If we are to reclaim our place as the "shining city on a hill," as Reagan put it, we have no choice: We must investigate, expose the ill-doings to the disinfecting rays of the Sun, and hold the perpetrators at the top accountable for their crimes.
Otherwise, we are no better than the Japanese, who have also refused to come to grips with the crimes that were committed by their government in the 1930s and 1940s.
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About that moral high ground:
Our message to human rights violators, no matter where they are, remains the same: We will use the full reach of U.S. law, and every lawful resource at the disposal of our investigators and prosecutors, to hold you fully accountable for your crimes. ~ Spoken by an asshole in the Justice Dept after the 97 year sentence was handed down this week on the son of the former Pres of Liberia.
If we ARE going to investigate and prosecute, Obama is backing into it. A funny: The conservative writer, George Will says that Obama's decidion to not prosecute shrub is like Ford pardoning Nixon..WOW, that seems like Will is acknowledging that shrub tortured.
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