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Would Obama prosecute the Bush administration for torture?

Obama's brain trust wants to form a commission on torture and call Bush officials as witnesses, but put off prosecutions -- if any -- till a second term.

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  • Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:46 PM

    Nope. He would dare not do it.

    One thing barrack would NEVER do is to prosecute Bush, Rove, Cheney or even Rumsfeld.

    That goes against his innermost thought.

    Obama is a Republican in disguise. Watch the signs:

    1. Obama never attacks McCain. Recall his attacks against Hillary and now recall his attacks against McCain. 10:1

    2. Obama supported telecom immunity even when a majority of people wanted telecoms to be prosecuted. He ignored the majority when he claims to represent them. Isn't that ironic?

    3. Obama never supported impeachment. He always says a president can be impeached for high crimes, but refuses to rally congressmen to impeach Bush even though 67% of voters want it.

    4. Obama refuses to support any investigation into war crimes in Iraq.

    5. Obama has ruled out withdrawing troops from Iraq immediately even though that's what he promised when he took dollars from you.

    6. Obama has refused to commit himself to capturing Bin laden, stating he will look into it. AFter all if Laden is captured then the war-on-terror loses its steam.

    7. Obama has refused to investigate corporates like Halliburton for war profiteering.

    8. Even in this article, he keeps saying "Things will be investigated and if violations of law did occur he will consider prosecuting." This is pretty vague when proofs have been produced many times. Much like how Reagan's advisors stated: "We neither confirm nor deny."

    9. Obama's refusal to bring criminal charges against Countrywide for defrauding millions.

    Obama is a charlatan who has tapped into citizens' innermost fears and wishes, promised to bring them to fruition, and milked them dry for campaining.

    Now that the common man is tapped out, he has started borrowing from corporates which means he will bow down to their wishes rather than your wishes.

    After all you donated $10. Corporations plunked down $100,000. Who will he listen to?

    For republican party this is a delicious irony: Two republicans fighting for the throne.

    Whoever wins this would not matter: The Republican party will continue, shovelling millions into corporate and richmen's coffers while you will continue to bleed to death.

    Wake up and smell the reality guys: Obama does NOT represent the common man. Defeat him this November.

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