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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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  • Tuesday, August 5, 2008 03:15 PM

    PROSECUTING PRESIDENTS--GO FOR IT!

    Sure, prosecute the Bushies for(possibly) "torturing" enemy combatants who were trying to kill our troops and/or plotting another 9/11!

    After all, didn't we prosecute the FDR administration for neglect of duty in allowing 12/7/1941?

    Didn't we prosecute Truman for dropping THE BOMB and thereby winning WWII?

    Didn't we prosecute Eisenhower for allowing Fidel to seize Cuba?

    Didn't we prosecute JFK for bumbling the Bay of Pigs?

    Didn't we prosecute LBJ for My Lie?

    Didn't we prosecute Nixon for Cambodia incursions?

    Didn't we prosecute Ford for beaning a guy on a golf course?

    Didn't we prosecute Carter for permitting the seizure of Americans in Tehran?

    Didn't we prosecute Reagan for trading arms for hostages?

    Didn't we prosecute Bush I for lying about not raising taxes?

    Didn't we prosecute Clinton for allowing bin Laden to escape, for bombing an aspirin factory, for desecrating the Oral Orifice, for lying under oath?

    Will we prosecute Obama when he loses the Iraq War, for hiding his Islamic ties, for exacting reparations from White Americans for slavery, for having buddies such as Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, and Rev. Wright, for causing the price of gas to soar to $10 a gallon, for losing WWIII to Islam, etc. etc.?

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