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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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  • Monday, August 4, 2008 07:41 AM

    Who really thinks justice will be done to the Bushian criminals?

    That's easy: NO ONE. Already, excuses, political calulations and sheer, crawling fearfulness on the part of professional Democrats are making it obvious that nothing will be done. The media are complicit, the Congress is complicit and about half the population are supportingly complicit. Exactly nothing will be done.

    That's the USA now. To the writer who told of his escape from the Nazis and his worship of freedom-bestowing, chocolate-gifting, benevolent and idealistic Americans: I'm sorry. We are no longer what we were. I'm truly, deeply sorry.

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