The big o is right. As Glenn has pointed out, everybody and his dog is suggesting that there is no use crying over spilled milk, and no use prosecuting Bush and his cronies for their crimes. We all know this is the height of hypocracy. If you can have three strikes and you are in jail for possession of small quantities of Marijauna, shouldn't there be three strikes for breaking the Geneva Covention on Torture, the supreme crime of starting a war of aggression against an enemy that was not a threat, and lying to your own people about spying on them with no justification?

How can we tell our kids to obey the law when they can point to the Preseident and say 'If he can break the law, why can't I?' There are either laws for all, or laws for none. If Bush is not held to account, prepare for the descent into anarchy.

Many of the democrats are complicit in the Bush legacy of deceit, human rights abuses, and spying on American citizens without cause. They have their backs up against the wall, because if they implicate Bush, they implicate themselves. Clinton was Reagan-lite. Although Obama seems to be different, his handlers will want to make him just Bush-lite. If Obama opens Pandora's Box, the lid might not be able to be put back on again. It might even lead to a real democracy, and an elimination of the elite oligarchs who are now in control. Unless Obama has a streak of Ghandi in him, that is not going to happen.

I'm looking for the boot on the neck, with slighly softer souls.

One could also mention that he is simply a bald faced liar. His most recent whopper, the economic meltdown is not an indictment of unregulated free market enterprise. And the way towards equality for all is more of the same. How can he say all of this with such a straight face? Amazing!

Comments from Shooter certainly make you think, if not just to reassure you of your own position. He/She does use a broad brush, and to suggest that 'the Left' supported the Afghan invasion is a bit of a stretch. There are certainly those in 'the Left' who are continuing to propound the myth that Alqueda and Osama were linked to 9/11, though. I refer to the 'Left Gatekeepers'. People who claim to be on the Left, but will not actually look at the facts available about 9/11, and claim that the Official Story, itself a conspiracy theory, is correct. The Official Story is the formal explanation of why we invaded Afghanistan. It does not stand up to a logical analysis however.

Those people who insist that we were right to go in there because Osama attacked us on 9/11 are still ignorant of the facts. The question is, is this ignorance deliberate.

The recent NIST report on why builing 7 collapsed was based on the presuppostion that fire caused the building to collapse. It did not address the possibility that explosives were used. This is not a study based on evidence gathering. It is a report designed to come up with a specific conclusion. The modern day magic bullet.

The facts are there for any who have eyes. All you need to do is open them.

What omooex says about why other countries have not attacked the US hits the nail on the head.

The only way to stop a powerful enemy is to be able to retaliate sufficiently. Think about North Korea. It used to be part of the axis-of-evil, and it was in the news that we were threatening them all the time. They acquire nuclear capacity, and the threats disappear.The only reason Israel is so worried about Iran getting nuclear weapons is that the power balance would no longer be weighted in its favour, and this equality would not be beneficial to Israel. Peace will only come when an aggressor can not push the weaker guy around. The justification for the US to be in Iraq and Afghamistan is that it could. If those countries had been able to defend themselves, we would still be at home, or attacking some other defenseless country that had oil. This is a perfect explanation of why it is that for peace to occur in the middle east, Iran needs to acquire nuclear weapons. We might think twice before threatening them, or attacking them.

Wake up people. We are committing crimes against humanity in order to fill our tanks with cheap gas, and to control the international heroin trade. And because we can. Your sons, sisters, husbands, wives and lovers are dying to make some other people rich. Is that a good reason to die?