Some American Catholics Upset Bush Will Not Be Tried For War Crimes

I really don't get people sometimes that have college educations. American Catholic has a response to these folks at No War Crimes Trials

Also let me add one. That is if water boarding is even torture. I am not sure there has been a consensus on that at all. I sort of lean to it is but then you have the question in Catholic Moral thought if in the situations used if it is still permissible. I know people wish to ignore that or pretend it doesn't exist but it is still being asked.

Of course the reason that is cited in the post above should be apparent to all

We have never yet reached a point where a presidential administration has turned around and prosecuted key members of its predescessor. To move in that direction would, I think, signal a very bad turn for our country. Looking at other historical examples, the Roman Republic especially, once the machinery of justice starts being used to take revenge on one’s political opponents (and I think given the relative severity of the Bush administration’s actions, as discussed above, one could not think of it as anything other than political revenge to ship people off to the Hague) the country comes apart very quickly. (One of the key reasons Julius Caesar marched his armies on Rome was because his political opponents refused to grant him the traditional immunity from prosecution for his actions while consul, and planned instead to try him as soon as his legal term in office was over.)

I am sometimes shocked that when people advocate such silliness as this that it never occurs them that this political gulag they are advocating can be so easily turned against them.