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Dear Glenn,
All is not as it seems. True we have horribly abused whole nations but look what it has done for us in Iraq. It doesn't get a lot of press but those nice Iraqi puppets that we put in power are opening a museum of U.S. Occupation at Abu Grahib prison with full depictions of human torture. This will be a continuously maintained public venue. Now you simply cannot by that kind of press. Talk about winning hearts and minds.
Your article concerned me a little because under the brilliant legal interpretation here won't the depiction of the torture in the museum at the prison be a crime whereas the original act of the torture is considered legal? Boy oh boy, that one is enough to start a person to thinking.
And finally, when all these proud torturing "warriors" come home and they are asked what did you do in the war, what are they going to say. And when these same proud few sit in their darkened room with the whiskey bottle and the revolver on the table and it is now years after they have realized that their own government deceived them into voiding their humanity, what answer will they have for themselves. Will Yoo's legal opinion be enough?
Thank you for your good work.
Conrad C. Elledge
