Bush Torture on Trial?

This article, written by David Cole on April 2, discusses the calls claiming that the Bush Administration authorized torture on people suspected in being involved in the "war on terror". The article stated that Obama has continuously ignored the calls in his effort to "look forward not backward", even after Vice President Cheney admitted that "he authorized waterboarding, and Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, has testified that waterboarding is torture."

Waterboarding has been around for centuries, and is used as a method of interrigation. Basically, a person is strapped to a board where they can not move, and someone repeatedly pours water over their face, giving the illusion that they are about to die from drowning.

"The investigation targets six lawyers responsible for devising the legal architecture that allowed torture to become official US policy: former Office of Legal Counsel lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee, who wrote the August 1, 2002, memorandum defining torture so narrowly that waterboarding and threats of death were deemed permissible; former White House lawyers Alberto Gonzales and David Addington, who headed the so-called War Council, argued that the Geneva Conventions were "quaint" and "obsolete" and requested the August torture memo; and Defense Department lawyers Douglas Feith and William Haynes, who helped sweep away the Geneva Conventions and authorize torture at Guantánamo."

These are people that are/were helping to run our country. How scary is that? Of course I don't agree with terrorists and the thought of terrorism, but if we are allowing torture in our country, arn't we coming down to their level? How are we any different from them? I have never before thought of the United States being a place where I would have to worry about these things, and the fact that President Obama wasn't more concerned, I think, is a concern for all Americans.