Reply #16: I think SCAPEGOATING Lynndie England was wrong.

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But that does not take away from the fact that what she did was wrong. The problem is it should have been Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney who were prosecuted for Abu Ghraib at the beginning. There should have been SOME consequences for the West Virginia crew, shouldn't there have been? Are you suggesting that they get away with what they did forever and always?

This is very, very difficult stuff here. Because my husband is German, this is not as abstract for me. Read this opinion piece about the 86 year old Nazi from Ohio and whether justice has an expiration date:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/mccarty-should-demjanjuk-be-spared-for-age-health-92021.html

Now this guy was a camp guard, and I want to be clear that genocide is the gravest of war crimes that can ever be committed. But I wonder if we could imagine that there were charges for a German or Japanese who waterboarded, and we finally found them. Can you imagine what that would mean to our current debate?

I really want to get a torture advocate on record as to how they feel about German and Japanese soldiers being put to death for waterboarding, when they were "just following orders". In fact, I would like to ask John Kerry how he feels about the Nuremburg Principle since he does not feel it applies to the CIA here.