If Obama Doesn't Prosecute Bush's Torture Team, We'll Pay a Big Price Down the Road

 ? are you a real person ?

I find it very troubling when people who have never fought in a war presume to set parameters for what is appropriate conduct during war.  Its ok to kill the enemy and also mame, blind and dismember the enemy during incomplete or inaccurate attempts to kill.  But torture, which may be more humiliating than painful is somehow unacceptable.  We, like every other country have done horrific things to advance the cause of war, but now the liberal media has made torture offensive and distasteful to our honorable American sensibilities.  This is actually quite funny since we have killed, pillaged, and raped more countries than any other country in history, I think we may have finally beaten England since they went soft in the last 50 years or so while we have blazed forward as economic imperialists.  What if the people being tortured do in fact have critical information  that could save hundreds and thousands of lives?  So if they talk they get to live and if they don't talk the worst that can happen is they die, so we're back to door number 1, which is undisputedly acceptable at war.   I think there should be some protocol, and responsible chain of command that  determines what is appropriate and when, and some limitation on the level of cruelty, nothing like midieval England torture toys, but it should be up to the military to set those parameters, not couch potatoes who want to call the shots from the security and comfort of their living rooms while our soldiers are out fighting to protect the American right to express foolish opinions.  There are some issues that are too complex to be left to public opinion and I think the media needs to back off on this issue.