I'm with Dana, sort of, on the need for investigation of Bush administration abuses regarding torture, rendition, etc. etc. The principle is pretty basic: if we don't know what happened, and who did it (whether we prosecute or not), and we don't exercise a formal judgment on how bad it was, then all we do is enable those who would do it again, and destroy our image throughout the world. Americans want this to happen. But there are some significant problems here. 1) Too many people in both parties knew exactly what was going on and stood by. Raul Hillberg, one of the most famous Holocaust historians, created the dichotomy of perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers , to which another historian (I honestly can't remember who ) added witnesses to separate those who watched and did nothing from those who risked watching to testify later about what happened. We had far too many bystanders (enablers) among our Congressmen, in our military, in our law enforcement organizati...