Ever since the decision by the Attorney General Eric Holder to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and four others in New York, the right wing exploded into a rage of frenzy. It is the craziest thing in the world for me and I want to see Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and company hung.

For one, I am delighted with the move by Eric Holder to finally get this done. I think that we should get back to American justice as fast as possible, rather than the world of enhanced interrogation techniques, aka torture. However, we must have the death sentence for these terrorists. We cannot allow them to have life sentences as that would risk terrorists holding up hostages in return for their release. Ask any Israeli and they would tell you that this is true.

That being said, I stress that it must, it must take place. I think it is absolutely crazy not to let it happen. What are we going to do: keep them in Guantanamo Bay forever? Does the far right really want to make that our concentration camp? Come on!

What are they afraid of : an acquittal? This is from former George W Bush’s Attorney General Mick Mukasey “The question with him (Khalid Sheikh Muhammad) was not about getting a confession, it was about getting intelligence.” They already had a confession! There is ample amount of proof that these terrorist murdered 3000 people. The chances of these guys not kissing the noose or staying in jail is as much as Adolf Hitler’s if he were alive to face the tribunals.

Are they afraid of a media circus? You know what, I want the world to see that America is back! That we can hang this piece of crap. If Khalid Sheikh Muhammad and others want to spew their bull-crap, we can get throw them out of their courts. The Conservatives fear that these people would be able to change their defense and that would increase the length of the trial. My question to them back is : How many murderers do we send to prison even though they have the very same rights? It does not make sense.

There are also many Conservatives who fear that this would mean that the President Bush’s policies would be put on trial. I am a person that clearly thinks that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques are an excuse for torture. However, the legal system would not be so stupid to confuse torture with this. The case is about the evidence, not some external issue.

They know these facts! They are just acting so scared. They are just being crazy and paranoid. There is absolutely nothing to be worried about! Nothing! I think that they know it and they are doing this just to gain attention. Just like how the liberals do to get our troops out of Afghanistan.

Lets be the bloodhounds that smell blood. Lets be equally interested in justice. Lets make sure that more than 3000 people not die in vain. Lets hang those basta**s.

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Attorney General Eric Holder is reported to consider appointing a prosecutor to look into the “enhanced interrogation techniques” carried out during the President Bush’s administration. Though I think that the practices then were wrong and illegal, I do not think that opening a case against the previous administration would do much good.

Let me first state that I am very much against torture. It is illegal in the laws of United States and in international law. I define torture as the per the international agreement written in 1984 states. I think that water-boarding, liquid diets and sleep deprivation are forms of torture and should not have been carried out at all.

I completely do not buy the argument that these techniques should be used to prevent a ticking time bomb scenario. If there is such a scenario, you would not waste time to water-board the inmate. You would shoot that inmates’ big toes off, step on the inmate’s foot and demand answers. That can only happen if you know that the prisoner has intelligence of a bomb that is about to go off somewhere. That would be understandable and nobody can fault America for that.

But in the case of President Bush’s administration, they tortured to get intelligence.. That was very sloppy work. The very fact that this pointed the direction to Iraq having Weapons of Mass Destruction and mushroom clouds highlights the failure of these “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

However, it would be a huge mistake for the President Obama’s administration to go after the President Bush’s administration for this. This would open a can of worms that nobody can swallow. It can set a trend that the future administration would start investigating and purging people from the previous administration.

The conservatives could have done it in 2000. They could have gone after President Bill Clinton for lying about the Monica Lewinski affair or they could have gone after the pardon of Marc Rich. But they chose not to. They chose to stand back and let things in the past be in the past.

At best, the President or the Attorney General in this case should give Vice President Cheney and company a pardon should the verdict be guilty. It would be a sad day in America should one administration go about jailing the members from previous ones. That would mean the utter and total collapse of democracy in America, when a person put in by the people is deemed to have been a criminal during his or her term. That is the reason that President Nixon never went to jail, even though he virtually confessed to his crimes.

I think that the decision to carry on with enhanced interrogation techniques was a wrong decision for democracy in America, but I think that going after past leaders in such manner is worse. I really hope that Eric Holder backs off this investigation.

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