For the Sake of History: It Was Torture

The International Red Cross has confirmed in a secret report that the Bush administration was engaged in interrogation methods known as torture. Given the remarks by Prez. Obama that he wanted to go forward and not finger-point about the previous administration's activities with the two wars in Asia, but that's a real problem for history. Here's why? The word history means to see the truth or report the truth. For years nations have sugar coated their past or have found a way to keep the nasty truth from ever seeing the light day. For example this nation in it's nascent days went hog wild naming cities after Christopher Columbus, but had we known the truth about his murderous ways in the so called New World we wouldn't have named a prison after him. As a nation we fell for the lie about the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution until the press did a truth revealing expose on the non-incident of the U.S.S. Maddox. The truth helped to end our engagement in the war in Vietnam. Now comes the issue of torture of "enemy combatants" in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The report is disgusting, but it is the truth. The truth is not necessarily for us but for our posterity and I don't want my children honoring a lie, a myth, or immoral behavior. I am sure you don't either.