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Impunity is the inherent right of the political class, no matter their crimes.
Security, militarism and post-Constitutional "justice" for the rest of us.
Watching the Democratic Faithful do somersaults to justify this deeply entrenched tradition is sickening.
But at least we know what Obama's priority is: Doing whatever it takes, or doing nothing at all, to assure Republicans (including no small number of his Wall Street pals) do not view his actions as partisan. Hardly a surprise. Democrats have been in this mode since before Iran-Contra. The consequences grow worse every day it continues.
"Truth and Reconciliation" is a fig leaf for mitigating their own complicity in triggering and exacerbating the nightmare that has become our omnipresent, unaccountable, lawless, war-junkie government. Obama and the Democratic establishment he epitomizes know nothing of truth and justice except that they represent threats to the sorry status quo.
Oh well.
As long as their bread gets buttered. And it will.
Everyone else can starve to death on a steady diet of hope and pragmatism.
