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Who are you kidding and how dumb do you think we are?
Looking forward to 2009, when both Congress and the White House may well be controlled by Democrats, the idea is to have Congress appoint an investigative body to discover the full extent of what the Bush White House did in the war on terror to undermine the Constitution and U.S. and international laws. The goal would be to implement government reforms aimed at preventing future abuses -- and perhaps to bring accountability for wrongdoing by Bush officials.
In other words, the idea is to allow the real criminal, President Bush, to escape unscathed and unimpeached, then put on some pathetic dog and pony show with the possibility of throwing a few scapegoats to the wolves in order to provide the masses with bread and circus. Nancy Pelosi has already made it clear that Bush will go unpunished for his high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment is off the table, remember? Why should we put any trust in any reform enacted by a Congress that has laid supine for eight years while Bush has trashed and dismantled the Constitution?
