Once again the US Media has gotten the story wrong and missed the point.  It isn't about the 9/11 terrorists -- it is about Abu Ghraib!  I still remember the day I found out about Abu Ghraib, I was in the US Air Force and I wore my uniform with a great deal of shame on that day, and for weeks afterward.  I was surprised by how many of my fellow service members felt pride and joy at the news, it was deeply disturbing.

Think back to how you felt on September 12, 2001.  Anyone in US custody that was involved in planning or carrying out that attack deserves what they got.  These people are not protected by the Geneva Conventions.  Torture is not an effective way to get information from these people, but who really cares if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was tortured?

The big story here is that this torture was allowed to creep into the US military and undermine respect for the Geneva Conventions.  It led to illegal treatment of innocent civilians in an illegal war.  US Soldiers willingly and enthusiastically promoted a reign of terror and torture over the detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison.  It is a fundamental failing in the US military command structure, yet only a few enlisted people actually served jail time.  The whole story of Abu Ghraib has never been widely told and it was probably much worse than we were led to believe, especially if you believe Seymour Hersh.

The big story here is that Bush and Cheney are directly responsible for the horrific treatment of innocent people in the name of every US Citizen.  I may have missed it, but I have yet to see a single report linking these two concepts.