Release torture report

Hopefully, the Senate tomorrow will release the long awaited report condemning torture by the Central Intelligence Agency between 2002 and 2003. The whole world has known this occurred for some years but former Bush administration officials, former C.I.A. operatives and most of the Republican war party establishment are running around with their hair on fire over the reports release. They claim, preposterously, that the torture report is make up, and th...at its release will cause attacks against western interests in the Middle East, even getting people killed. What they ignore is that endless and senseless American warfare in that region for the past 13 years is getting people killed every day, including some of our own people. Fifty-three US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan this year, bringing the 13 year total to 2,354, all for nothing, nada, zilch. Just last week President Obama authorized an additional 1,000 soldiers to stay in Afghanistan next year because our so called allies are saying "Nyet" to further involvement. American foreign policy can be summed up as "stupid is as stupid does."

We need to see the detailed torture report confirming and putting in the public record what we already know. The torture report will do nothing to sanction or bring the torturers to justice. It will drive a stake into the endless denial of international war crimes by the Bush administration and its C.I.A. torture arm. It will become part of the American story that American propagandists strive mightily to leave out of our history books. It may make a future rogue administration and rogue intelligence agency think multiple times before they are temped to embark upon a torture and criminal war repeat.

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