A Strong Case For War Crimes Prosecutions

Here's a New York Times editorial about the need not only to close Guantanamo, but to bring to justice those who tortured prisoners, and those who told them to.

Since Judge Susan Crawford proclaimed in an interview with the Washington Post that Mohammed al- Qahtani, the Saudi national accused of planning to take part in 9/11, was tortured, there is a stronger and more specific reason not to just move on as Barack Obama has said he prefers to do.

I understand that it likely would be called a witch hunt by Bush/Cheney supporters, but that's only politics. Justice needs to be sought, not to protect the tortured person. It's too late for that, and he's clearly a bad guy. The need is to prosecute war crimes; so that future people in powerful places will think twice before doing what Bush/Cheney, the elected mafia dons, have done for years.

It's good to see this point being made by editors of a publication of the New York Times' stature.

There's so much meat in this editorial that it deserves to be read in its entirety. I commend it to you.

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper