Investigate the Torturers
I really don't like blogging about this kind of thing, but the battle between my stomach and my conscience often leads to a win for the conscience. The United States should be a world leader in moral capacity and ethical treatment of even the vilest of characters. Somehow, we failed at that role between 2002 and 2007. FireDogLake reports:
According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
The author concludes:
The CIA wants you to believe waterboarding is effective. Yet somehow, it took them 183 applications of the waterboard in a one month period to get what they claimed was cooperation out of KSM.That doesn't sound very effective to me.
I signed the petition to investigate and prosecute. Although they wouldn't guarantee it to their victims, at least the torturers deserve justice.
