Other than sticking it to the grunts, no accountability for torture

accountability is in the wind... right now, with delay and safavian, it's all about politics, power and money... maybe - hopefully - the pendulum will swing toward accountability for the even uglier, nastier stuff like prisoner torture or, heaven forbid, ILLEGAL WAR...

Federal authorities “frog-marched” Private Lynndie England in handcuffs and shackles off to prison to serve three years for her role in abusing and humiliating Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.

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[A] larger question is whether low-ranking soldiers are becoming scapegoats for the bloody fiasco that Bush created when he ordered the invasion in defiance of international law. Pumped-up by Bush’s false claims linking Iraq to the Sept. 11 terror attacks, U.S. soldiers charged into that Arab country with revenge on their minds.

In a healthy democracy, the debate might be less about imprisoning England and other “grunts” than whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other war architects should be “frog-marched” to the Hague for prosecution as war criminals.

The international community also has largely shied away from the issue of Bush’s criminality, apparently because of the unprecedented military might of the United States.

If the leaders of a less powerful nation had invaded a country under false pretenses – touching off a war that left tens of thousands of civilians dead – there surely would be demands for war crimes prosecutions before the International Criminal Court at the Hague. But not for Bush and his War Cabinet.

i don't think there's any "question" about low-ranking soldiers becoming the scapegoats for this administration... scapegoating is bushco's hallmark, whether it be for wmd's and the aluminum tube mess (joseph wilson), the katrina response disaster (blanco and nagin), the delay indictment (ronnie earle), or everything else that hasn't gone swimmingly for bushco (clinton)... perhaps, accountability's day is coming and its winds will finally blow bush's ship of fools aground...

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