Miss-enlightened!

By now almost everyone has heard something about the Bush Administration torture memos .

President Obama has said that no one will be prosecuted if they were acting legally and in "good faith," but many people (including some congress members) are not satisfied with that. The biggest controversy is over a method of torture called "waterboarding."

After World War II some Japanese interrogators who "waterboarded" United States troops were severely punished. It is a double standard to say that it wasn't okay for enemy soldiers to do that to our troops during a time of world war, but it is entirely okay for our interrogators to do it to people (some of whom were innocent bystanders picked up off the street). It is easy to see why this issue has the country in uproar, and only time will tell whether the rights of the individual were sufficiently weighed verses the greater good.

I don't think that the question is whether or not the Bush Administration will have to answer for what happened during their 8 years in office, it's going to happen! President Obama obviously knows that if he doesn't demand "justice" someone else will. By not taking up the cause and heading the parade- Obama is able to focus on the issues that he promised to, and he does not villainize himself in the eyes of the voters. That kind of "cool" thinking is exactly why I voted for him.