Bush official announces, "We have innocent blood on our hands"

In April, while we in America were all agog about tea baggers, Tiger and Palin-tology(the study of stupid), the rest of the world reported on a statement from a former aide of Colin Powell, that alleges that the Bush administration covered up that they knew that hundreds of innocent men were imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Not only were Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld aware of these innocent men; they would not release them because they were afraid that releasing these innocent men and children would damage their push for broadening their “war on terror” and invasion of Iraq.

The statement was submitted in the British court by Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, a topaide to Colin Powell (when secretary of state. Colonel Wilkerson stated that Cheney and Rumsfeld knew that the majority of the first round of detainees (742) sent to Guantanamo in 2002 were innocent and had only been turned in for the money our government was offering. Colonel Wilkerson retired after serving 31 years in the Army.

General Powell, who left the Bush Administration in 2005, angry about the misinformation that he unwittingly gave the world when he made the case for the invasion of Iraq at the UN, is understood to have backed Colonel Wilkerson’s declaration.

The story broke in the UKTimes online:

He added that he had was his view with Secretary Powell and learned that is was not just Cheney and Rumsfeld who refused to let the innocent men return to their country, but also then-president Bush who was “involved in all of the Guantanamo decision making”

So, what happened to the other men, ranging in age from 12(yes, 12 year old) to 93 years old? Tortured, placed in solitary confinement, humiliated. Many, after being tortured by the US “military”(read Blackwater) have possibly, now become freedom fighters—the one we call terrorists…think about it. Canada invades the United States, says they don’t have to follow the Geneva Convention and kidnap your pre teen and your grandfather…what would you do?

And although it is very important, as a country, to investigate these war crimes so, we can once again become the land of the free and show the world, that we not only talk the talk, but walk the walk, there is a more urgent reason to bring these war criminals of the last administration to trial:

If we do not investigate, then we, also have blood on our hands.

Under Bush, we were warned how dangerous those “enemy combatants were that were imprisoned in Gitmo, but now, we know that was a lie. Our legal system, our culture is built on innocent until proven guilty and was something we strived to insure except for the last 30 years. Now, it seems we have forgotten those highest words of our justice system. Now the words first uttered are “they were probably guilty of something” and living in a country that thinks these words are something to treasure is shameful.