It goes against the grain of the holiday season, but the President and the whole neocon cabal sprinkled throughout his administration should be tried as war criminals. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody makes this abundantly clear.

The only good news of this report is that, as Andrew Sullivan in The Architect of Abu Ghraib, “there is no statute of limitations for war crimes.” Minimally, George Bush should have been impeached long ago, and this report details some of the reasons why.