It must be excruciating for people who were involved with the Bush/Cheney criminal cabal to realize that they are no longer protected but are subject to possible prosecution. They deserve to worry. I have to assume that they believed Karl Rove when he said that the Republicans would be dominant for years, and hence saw no threat to roguish behavior or lawbreaking. I hope congress will see to it that these people are brought to trial, but I’m not about to start second-guessing President Obama. He deserves our trust while he cleans up the worst mess ever left by a former administration. We are on the ropes morally, economically, politically and militarily. We do need to husband our resources and energy, but let the chips fall where they may.

I'm afraid this is just the tip of the garbage truck. One thing will lead to another. A Deep Throat will appear and shed more light. On and on. We will one day find out how immoral and corrupt the Bush Administration was, and how compliant were the Republicans in congress. Somebody in The Hague should start sweeping out the cell block. Dick Cheney should shut his mouth. I'd love to see him in the dock, under oath. Not that it would stop his lying ways.

This is delicious. This hardnosed, rightwing Dem gets her fingers slammed in the car door and you can hear her screech for miles! My question is this. How does she propose to protect *Innocent Americans* and how does she expect to decide who they are? When we were a country of laws, it was always *innocent until proven guilty*. Now we know for sure that BushCo abused power and cheated the nation. I find it hilarious in an ironic way that this enabler was caught in wiretaps. If it wasn’t her, but somebody next door would she be so hysterical? I don’t think so. It’s all about her.

Based on what we already know, we can state unequivocally that George Bush and his administration condoned horrors that diminish the whole country, including torture and deceit that launched us into a terrible, unjust war. Forget everything else that this man did and concentrate on these two items, and in the spirit of what President Obama has suggested lets look forward and not back.

Therefore I suggest that we deny Mr. Bush the right to build anything like a presidential library and take the money to Washington DC and use it to build the George W. Bush Museum of Abuses and Intolerance. It could easily be a multifaceted display of everything that went wrong: interactive torture rooms, the horrors of Iraq, a rogue’s gallery of all of the players. Leave plenty of room for anything else that is uncovered about this bleak eight year rampage.

This should be George Bush’s legacy and should include all of the people that made it possible from members of the Supreme Court to the voters who kept him in office against all reason. Bush and Cheney, et al should be enshrined forever in shame.

A fine article, but I don’t think the author goes far enough. It isn’t just torture that we need to investigate in this dark night, but a host of other crimes committed in the name of the American people.

I was appalled to read in today’s Washington Post that Charles Krauthammer made a case that it is sometimes necessary to torture. Apologists like Krauthammer who have apparently lost their moral compass are trying to take the rest of us to the nether world with them. Making excuses for the moral decay we’ve lived through is tantamount to surrendering to it.

Why wasn’t there a huge protest when the Supreme Court handed Bush a stolen election. What else was bogus about that ordeal? What about the second *election*?

We need to find out how much planning there was for the Iraq war before 9/11, and then why Bush was shuffled off to Florida the day of the attacks for a ridiculous photo-op and then flown halfway across the country when it all came down. Was it to keep him out of the way? Why was Cheney directing traffic? Did we already have enough information to stop the attacks beforehand? Condi Rice testified that we’d been warned.

One thing leads to another and torture is only a part of the picture. Who was at Cheney’s secret energy meeting? Why were no bid contracts given to Halliburton and Blackwater and so on.

Our black night may be deeper and darker than ever imagined, but we do have to sort it all out no matter how long it takes. We haven’t an alternative if we are to survive as a nation. It may be possible that George W. Bush’s library may end up looking more like a Museum of Crime and Murder. That seems to be the direction of his so-called legacy.

What is really pathetic is that both Bristol and Levi can make a career of this *mistake* because they’re members of dysfunctional, high-profile families with an egocentric beauty queen stirring the pot. We are going to have to watch them on television and read about them in the news for years as they go through mates and children and get highly visible interviews, and then *write* ghosted books that get million dollar advances, and eventually end up with their own talk shows. This is the circus part. Where’s the bread? And what is Nero doing?