Tuesday
Jan202009
A Farewell to George Bush: Does Torture Carry a Cost?
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 9:11
Before we close the door on the Bush Presidency....
For political reasons, there will be no enquiry into the illegal actions of the Bush Administration, let alone an attempt to hold its officials accountable before a criminal court. That makes it even more important that the public investigation --- first as a study of current politics and US foreign policy, later as history --- of how the Executive could bypass Congress, the US courts, and international law to sanction torture should be thorough, ongoing, and unrelenting.
Keith Olbermann, in his provocative and incisive manner, offers a summary: "Mr President-Elect, you have been handed the beginning of [our] future, use it to protect our children and our distant descendants from anything like this ever happening again."
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBbunLBW9w[/youtube]
For political reasons, there will be no enquiry into the illegal actions of the Bush Administration, let alone an attempt to hold its officials accountable before a criminal court. That makes it even more important that the public investigation --- first as a study of current politics and US foreign policy, later as history --- of how the Executive could bypass Congress, the US courts, and international law to sanction torture should be thorough, ongoing, and unrelenting.
Keith Olbermann, in his provocative and incisive manner, offers a summary: "Mr President-Elect, you have been handed the beginning of [our] future, use it to protect our children and our distant descendants from anything like this ever happening again."
[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBbunLBW9w[/youtube]
