The big fuss this week was President Obama's total turnaround on
releasing the new torture pictures. Despite stating that they were
"not particularly sensational", in the next breath he argued that
releasing them would put our troops at greater risk, two statements
which when combined make no logical sense.
What's really going on here is that Obama has so far resisted in
every possible way his duty under the law to appoint a special
prosecutor, despite his affirmation that waterboarding is torture,
and the arrogant public confessions of those who ordered that
torture. Having underestimated the furor for prosecution that the
previous release of the torture memos would cause at home, Obama now
well knows that these pictures would just increase that pressure.
So we say give the pictures to a special prosecutor, who can then
show them to a grand jury. That's who really needs to see them.
Obama
said long ago, "Make me do it." We don't need more pictures to do
that, we KNOW what they did, we just need to keep speaking out about
it. Special Prosecutor Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum984.php Just submit the one click action page at the link directly above and
your message to "Appoint A Special Prosecutor For Torture Now" will
go directly to President Obama, Attorney General Holder, and all your
members of Congress too!
We need to each of us continue to speak out for a special prosecutor
once a week from now on, until Obama and Holder finally get the
message that no matter how many people THEY don't torture, there is
no accountability for the past, and no deterrent for the war
criminals of the future, without prosecutions NOW.
And after you speak out and submit the action page above, you can get
one of the new "Convict Dick & W" caps which you are starting to see
everywhere, custom embroidered with a cute little cowboy hat on the
"W". Or you can request yours at this page directly.
Convict Dick & W Caps:
http://www.peaceteam.net/convict_cap.php Let us be very clear. Cheney and Bush started torturing people for
the purpose of making a FALSE case for invading Iraq, not to try to
protect us in any way from another terrorist attack, like the one
they were so negligent in not stopping in the first place. It started
with al-Libi, now mysteriously dead in prison, who was tortured into
falsely confessing a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, a lie that
defied all other intelligence to the contrary.
The torture started long before they commissioned legally
preposterous opinions to say the OLD torture was suddenly now new and
OK, from sycophant lawyers one of whom (Bybee) was rewarded for his
collaboration with an lifetime seat on the appeals court.
Which is why it is all so very interesting that Cheney has been all
over the corporate media lately doing the equivalent of a Limbaugh
torture teaching tour. Why is Dick Cheney now taking such a PERSONAL
interest in trying to retroactively sell a policy of torture to the
American people?
The answer of course is that torture was HIS program, it was his
initiative. He was the driving force in charge of it, and he's the
one who made it happen. Listen to Cheney's answer on Meet To Press to
the question of whether Bush knew everything about the program that
he did. Listen to Cheney mumble out of the side of his mouth that
Bush "knew a great deal" and "basically authorized it", and you can
picture Cheney doing everything but forge Bush's signature on it, not
that the little decider is himself any less responsible.
Special Prosecutor Action Page:
http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum984.php After all the lies they BOTH told over and over about weapons of mass
destruction, which there weren't, the lies about "We don't torture,"
when they were, and everything else, now Cheney is out there pushing
the lie that torture works and gave us swell intelligence, when every
serious career military interrogator who ever was knows that it
doesn't work, except to produce BAD information.
Our troops are not at risk because torture is exposed, they are at
risk if it is not prosecuted. This has NOTHING to do with protecting
our troops, and everything to do with protecting ONE very cowardly
man, who dodged his own military service with 5 deferments, and has
been hiding behind our troops ever since ... Dick Cheney.
In trying to defend the torture he himself ordered Cheney now says,
"If I don't speak out, where do we find ourselves?"
Most ironically, that is the very question WE need to ask OURSELVES.
If we don't speak out, his shame and guilt and crimes become our own.
But if we DO speak out, and keep speaking out, Cheney will ultimately
find himself where war criminals belong ... behind bars for a very
long time.
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