As an act of thumbing his nose at those who should have started proceedings against him , Dick Cheney brazenly admitted that the multitude of denials of torture were lies, and went on to justify these heinous acts on the basis that they were “productive” (Yet another lie). Those in his Party showed their total lack of moral fibre by brashly supporting these acts and lies via their highly controlled media, and the criminal was given a podium to attack the next Administration and Congress!
Instead of rebutting these attacks, and immediately starting proceedings, our President and Congress did nothing, and even went so far as to say that there would be no special prosecutor or proceedings.
Thus the oath of allegiance was tossed aside and innocent victims were left to languish in foul prisons, and the victims of torture were left without redress, while the archperpetrators of torture and murder were allowed to walk away scot free,
to the anguish of their victims and their families.
Perhaps one of the most egregious cases was the torture -murder of an innocent taxi driver who was forced to stand with his hands shackled to the ceiling for 4 days while he was repeatedly beaten on his legs until he could not even bend them. When he died, autopsy showed that all the muscles in his legs
were beaten to a pulp. Another horrific case was a prisoner whose photo had been taken and showed the victim lying on the ground with his amputated penis and testicles lying on the ground in front of him, while a soldier was tugging up on his arm.
These are but two of many horrors, the total of which we will never know, but the extraordinary mortality in one of the prisons of at least 20 % of the young healthy men dying bespeaks of as grizzly a scene as is hard to imagine in any American controlled prison..

WE CANNOT, AND MUST NOT JUST SIT AND DO NOTHING IN THE FACE OF
THESE ATROCITIES !