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Would Obama prosecute the Bush administration for torture?

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  • Monday, August 4, 2008 12:48 PM

    Political will?

    First let me say I have only voted for a Republican once in my life as 19 year old Petty Officer Third Class while in the US Navy. That was in 1972. I have been fired from my job as an Air Traffic Controller in 1981 by Ronald Wilson Reagan. My ex wife says that I cannot blame everything on old Ronnie but I tend to do so.

    Several years ago I was against impeachment of W beacuse I saw what happened during the Clinton proceedings and thought the disruption was too great and there were too many things that needed to addressed. W has the attention span of a 6 year old and heaven knows he didn't need to be distracted further. I have since changed my mind on impeachment primarily because I want a message sent. I want whomever is waiting in the wings, who evers considers dividing the country for their own gain, whomever wants to subvert the Constituion, whomever chooses to make the administration of Justice a political exercise, I want them to know that this kind of stuff will not be tolerated. I want them to know that when the people get to the bottom of this, there will be jail time, disgrace of the highest order and to know that this happened before, (remember Bush, Cheney and Rove) and to know that the full power of American legal system will fall upon their evil heads and that there is a price to pay for such disrespect for their own country and countrymen. I want them to know. Lack of political will, please

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