Letters to the Editor
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How long...
Before Her Imperial Majesty weighs in with a vow to investigate longer and harder?
Oh, and unbitterly.
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"Nobody is above the law"
Is absolutely the correct statement. The fact that a candidate should have to even mention that shows how far we've fallen.
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The Great Failure
The great failure of the Democrats, who took over Congress in 2006, is their refusal to hold the Bush Cabal accountable for their crimes. Thank you Nancy Pelosi. Thank you Harry Reid. Apparently, in 2007 it just wasn't convenient to defend the very foundations of what it means to be an American. After all, the Dems had lists and lists of other capitulations to make to their friends on the other side of the aisle. Which is all to say, through their inaction, Democrats hold the Constitution with the same disdain as Republicans do. It's nice to know there are some issues the parties can all agree on.
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He will part the waters
And drive their chariots into the divide where the walls crash down and drown paroh's army.
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What's wrong with this picture?
Yesterday's Der Speigel carried the news that the state prosecutor in Dortumund was planning to file charges against an 86 year old former member of the Waffen SS who shot and killed 3 civilians in Holland during WWII as part of an SS crackdown on those thought to have been sympathetic to the Dutch underground which was killing German soldiers (the specific prompt apparently was the killing of a pro-Nazi member of the Dutch collaborator government). Does this sound familiar? Substitute American for German and Iraqi for Dutch. Think Haditha. Nobody's been convicted of anything yet. Do you think something's going to happen 60 years from now? I don't think so.
Shrub and Co.? That bunch of war criminals deserves to spend the rest of their natural lives in some dark, dank dungeon populated by spiders and rats but they aren't going to. That would be justice and they all have too much money and influence to be on the receiving end of justice.
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He's right
"Nobody is above the law" and we certainly need to take a close look and investigate what has happened over these last seven years. He didn't sound alarmist or cuastic or fanatical. He sounde reasonable: wrong doing will be investigated. As it should be.
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Bush will Go Free
There's a problem of investigating Bush -- at least directly.
Each president imagines what would happen once they leave office, will the next president investigate them? When your president, you make certain decisions that could be viewed as "crimes". For example, Clinton bombed Serbia during their attack on Kosovo. Civilians were killed. Was it a war crime? Where would you draw the line? Nixon's bombing of Laos and Cambodia? Lincoln's siege of Vicksburg? When you're president, and you're involved in any sort of war, civilians will get hurt, and someone will always question your actions.
Second guessing the previous administration can be dangerous and I will assume that any president will tread carefully in investigating their predecessor.
However, I do believe that the first investigation will be Gitmo. From there, torture in Iraq will be brought up. Certain Generals will be questioned. That might go to Rumsfeld and to Cheney. Then not torture, but misappropriation of funding will be brought up. Haliburton will be questioned, and Cheney's role in Haliburton will be reviewed. By this time, I suspect that Cheney will resume his role in Haliburton as a top executive which will allow him to exit stage left to Dubai (Haliburton changed last year from an American company to a Dubai company). Where he'll be safe from any sort of prosecution.
If Cheney does move to Dubai to avoid questioning and possible prosecution, he'll be the first Vice President since Aaron Burr to live in exile. (And, by coincidence, Aaron Burr also shot someone in the face. However, Burr's exile was due to running away from creditors rather than prosecution.)
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Just Goes to Show
A consensus maker who still has a spine? Can you imagine such a thing? I thought only calculating partisans who nevertheless cash out their principles for cynical political positioning were qualified to answer that call at 3am.
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downwarddog
The Great Failure
The great failure of the Democrats, who took over Congress in 2006, is their refusal to hold the Bush Cabal accountable for their crimes. Thank you Nancy Pelosi. Thank you Harry Reid. Apparently, in 2007 it just wasn't convenient to defend the very foundations of what it means to be an American. After all, the Dems had lists and lists of other capitulations to make to their friends on the other side of the aisle. Which is all to say, through their inaction, Democrats hold the Constitution with the same disdain as Republicans do. It's nice to know there are some issues the parties can all agree on.
-- downwarddog
Absolutely!
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I hope he would
I doubt he'd investigate as vigorously as I would like him to, but there's so much dirt...I don't think America has any chance of regaining the white hat, even in its own eyes, unless some of these people get prosecuted.
I'd love to see the Administration punished the way it should. Mass murderers should get punished.
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Maybe not
Honestly, I don't think it would be good for this country to send Bush, Chaney and Rumsefeld to jail. A pardon would be acceptable, but unlike Ford's pardon of Nixon, there needs to be a trial and conviction before any pardon is issued.
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since Pelosi said impeachment is off the table,
what would be the point?
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A momentary shame.
I couldn't imagine a better image for peace, than Bush in chains.
Sure it would be a shame to US history, but no worse than the black eye and bloody lip this chump has already given us.
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This is why to vote for Obama.
What issue could be more important than some kind of investigation? It is not like it will be hard. Play the recent ABC interview, Bush says "Yes I sanctioned those meetings, I ordered them to happen, and signed off on their results." There results were torture. It was a crime. They had it much harder at Nuremberg.
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A tenuous stance
But if there were anything investigated it would at least hint at some restoration on the Executive's recently broadened scope of power. Can anyone imagine a return to relative normalcy in the Federal Government where the President isn't a king surrounded by an incompetent and lawless cabinet and favoritism appointees? I'll believe it when I see it of course..
Obama 08!