AND THE NEXT STEP IS.......

Steve Chapman concludes his fine and accurate May 8th Tribune column, Waterboarding in the search for bin Laden:

"In the end, they don't really care about imposing limits, and they don't really care if torture is effective or not. Torture, in the minds of its apologists, is not a means to a good result. It's a good result all by itself."

These "apologists" Chapman refers to are not some low level sociopathic military grunts who get tossed in the brig when their photos of torture get published, causing a public relations nightmare for the war party. They are sociopaths at the highest level of government with names such as George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Chapman knows that full well even though as a member of the Tribune Editorial Board he signed off on the re-election editorial of those same sociopaths back in 2004 because the Trib concluded that the Bush Administration had the experience and the smarts to keep us safe.

Criminal war, torture, secret rendition, endless incarceration without a prayer of getting justice were their stock in trade for the seven years they ruled after September 11, 2001. Steve Chapman and the Tribune should take the logical next step after calling out the torture apologists and demand a full and impartial investigation with possible prosecutions for these criminals. Revealing the truth is easy; just open your eyes. The hard part is obtaining justice.