Reply #38: My 2 cents

[fedupinBushcountry]

IMO, it needs to be investigated and from there those who have been found to have broken not only our laws but international laws too, need to be put on trial and punished for going against everything that we stand for as a country. If it shows to be true that they did it for pure political reasons to back up their reasons for going to war, well they need to be punished and never pardoned.

IMO, we are where we are now because of lessons not learned and letting others get away with crimes. Nixon-Watergate, Reagan-Iran Contra. I am angry when I hear the ludicrous arguments played by the pundits on cable news. We do not TORTURE, period. They can twist and turn it all they want, if we do not debate and find out exactly what happened and put those before the justice system, I don't see how we can ever be the same again.

We are a nation of laws but whenever anyone in the Whitehouse goes above the law nothing is done. We have to stop that, or it will continue and who knows what will happen or what has happened but we just don't know about it yet.

As far as who should be punished, it starts at the top, whoever was involved in making torture a policy should be tried for war crimes. I don't get the discussion about what constitutes being torture, it is already defined and we do not TORTURE.

My husband served for 20 years and yes they are taught some ugly things to combat their enemies, mainly it is ugliness and berating their enemies, but never was he ever taught to torture. They always went by the Geneva convention. Those who disobeyed those laws were duly tried, like Lt. Calley.

I do not want to be apart of a country that has lowered itself to such immoral acts, it really angers me. I just want the truth out and I want those who had anything to do with it to be punished. They have shamed our country, they have put our troops in danger, all for political reasons, that is just beyond what I ever thought that Bush would go that low, just to win. Shameful and sickening.