Fact: We Tortured to Justify War

Posted by tristero, Hullabaloo at 11:23 AM on May 15, 2009.

There simply is no good reason why the leading members of the Bush administration should not stand trial.

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Many of us realized a while ago that the real purpose of all the torture Bush and Cheney ordered was to elicit false information of an al Qaeda/Saddam connection that would justify an invasion of Iraq, an obsession of the Cheney circle that predated 9/11. But Joe Conason has written an especially compelling essay laying out the evidence piece by piece.

There simply is no good reason why the leading members of the Bush administration who ordered, justified, and implemented torture should not stand trial. And many good reasons why they should.

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