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"A common view among those involved with the talks is that any early effort to prosecute Bush administration officials would likely devolve quickly into ugly and fruitless partisan warfare."
Good-golly, we sure wouldn't want to pile "Ugly and fruitless partisan warfare" atop all of the "ugly and fruitless" torture that we seem to insist on engaging in around the globe!
My favorite none sense-myth (along side the one that claims that the media has a"liberal bias") is that our government is overly "partisan", by nature. Anyone who has paid any attention at all to the events of the past eight years can't deny that the Democrats were utterly and completely complicit every step of the way. Joe Biden, for example, was hot for "regime change" in Iraq, an opinion he proudly shared with the first incarnation of Al Gore (the Al Gore who had Lieberman as his running mate, not the new improved edition) long before Bush stole the election of 2000.
We surely could have used some real hard-nosed partisan warfare back when it might have actually done some good!
