It’s nice that the Seventh District Court of Appeals says that Donald Rumsfeld can be sued for torture, but we all know he should be in prison along with Bush and Cheney, as well as other senior military and intelligence officials. This cannot be seriously disputed. The Obama administration decided not to treat the outgoing party as a pack of war criminals, and I can understand the desire to avoid making his first term all about accountability for Bush’s crimes. But those crimes won’t wash away with the sands of time. They will look worse with each passing year. And Obama will be somewhat tainted by them as well. Too bad Obama’s magnanimity wasn’t reciprocated in the slightest.
I hope Rumsfeld loses his case and has to pay everything he owns to the plaintiffs, but even that wouldn’t begin the scratch the surface of justice.
