Ed. Note: Trigger warning: Video after the jump includes images and descriptions of violence and torture.
Ed. Note: This is part of a series of videos I got an idea for over the holidays, and spent that time putting together from images and video clips available from sites like YouTube, etc. These are from the documentary Torturing Democracy, which you can see in its entirety online.
After hearing about Dick Cheney’s downright smug admission to approving torture, the Senate report that Rumsfeld and others are vulnerable to prosecutions for war crimes, and the likelihood that they’ll get away with it, I thought it worthwhile to look at exactly what we’ll probably end up giving them a pass on.
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So, should they be prosecuted? Why? Or why not? I’ll share my thoughts upcoming posts in the series.