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When the first evidence of Americans doing torture came to the surface was where the rule of law and the morality and ethics should have rained down hard on all whether G.W.Bush,Dick Cheney,Rumsfeld,Tenet and principal American Congress oversight people. For this not to have taken place in the same spirit a parking ticket is issued,a speeding ticket given or an arrest warrant made out for someone passing worthless checks is where the first rot,the first falldown,the first creep away from absolutes appeared opening onto the pragmatic slippery slope WashingtonDC is now on.
Both parties equally sharing the dereliction of duty to uphold the rule of law and go with spineless or worst still willful secret condoning of this.
Barack Obama will have a small window to fully denounce,renounce and bring full consequence of legal,moral and ethical hard lines redrawn to bear. Should he hesitate or fail in doing so he will then be as guilty as Bush,Cheney and the rest of this soon to be out of power regime's cabal.
The DC DEMs have had it easy these past eight years with the Bush/Cheney regime to pass off acute issues on and then claim they were "powerless" to do otherwise. The past two years we have seen in plain ways that the DC DEMs in Congress are not innocent,are not without taint in much of what has taken place since G.W.Bush and Dick Cheney moved into the WH in Jan.2001.
The DC DEMs have now lost the last of the cloaking device they have cowered behind.
Oh---in recent days it came about WashingtonDC is for using cluster bombs--does Israeli desires for this weapon have anything to do with this being so?
The rot reaches deep. Very deep.
