- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Iran-Contra prosecutions could have prevented Iraq war crimes by letting those involved know there will be consequences.
What happened...did they threaten the Oabam girl's lives?
How can Obama, just out of the blue, start turning into a Bush/Pelosi clone. Prosecuting Bush will interfere with "policy making"?
We vote for one person and another shows up for work. It's like listening to Bush being forced by congress to justify his Iran policies. From all sources there is no evidence of Iran seeking a nuclear weapon...nor would a nuclear Iran be anymore threatening than a nuclear Israel or Pakistan or India is.
Who has Obama been talking to...or listening to? Has he just got his "marching" orders from the 'shadow' government or what?
In '06 dems were overwhelmingly elected with a mandate to accomplish 2 things...1)end the Iraq war; 2)end the government corruption of the Bush administration. They did neither...didn't even try. They did just the opposite...legalizing Bush's corruption while giving him everything he demanded from them. They boast of an increase of a (non-livable) minimum wage as their biggest accomplishment.
After our elected officials take office they disconnect with the people who elected them. It is no Democracy when the people are unable to control the actions of their elected government...a government supposedly of, by and for the people.
Obama had no good explanation for voting for telecom immunity. He has no good explanation for saying he may not be able to close Gitmo...and certainly no good reason to let the Bush administration get away with breaking the law.
Bush comes from the position of being a self serving selfish, egotistical spoiled brat asshole...Obama is none of those things so there is every reason to believe he will be more open ans sensitive to the will of the people with intentions of doing the right and Just thing. Perhaps (like FDR) he wants our voices to be loud and clear("...now make me do it").
Iran once offered its help and total cooperation, even offering to end it's nuclear program without complete oversight...but it was ignored and hidden by Condi Rice. If we treat them differently they will respond. They have condemned the building and the use of WMD unlike all their neighbors for which they have little protection. Remember the "We are the change we've been looking for". Stop acting like Bush is good advice. How can you change something you refuse to re evaluate? I did not vote for kings or dictators but for someone to "represent" me as he 'indicated' he did. So I still expect he will.
