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Demands for war crimes prosecutions are now growing in the mainstream

The emerging evidence of culpability among top leaders, combined with their increasingly brazen admissions, is rendering real investigations an unavoidable option

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  • Thursday, December 18, 2008 09:25 AM

    NYT editorial - Criminal charges against 'Top Pentagon Officials" but

    notably, not bush or cheney.

    Nice of the NYT to lend its heft behind "a strong case' for bringing charges against former officials.

    Of course, no one in charge now has anything to do with torture.

    Of course the NYT will never, in-no-way ever, admit that there is "a string case" for bringing charges against bush or cheney or anyone else in charge.

    After decades, the way the NYT and the rest of the media toadies up to the admitted violators of our most cherished rights still turns my stomach.

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