Letters to the Editor
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@rupert_c
It's a crazy game, when parties are one and the same!
Personally, I much prefer the Clinton sameness to the Bush sameness that both preceded and followed it.
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Obama has no intention that his AG would fully investigate....
Obama's words are (once again) based in conditional rhetoric. If one reads his words closely, his only "promise" is to review what is "already out there."
What a crock o-crapola! His words are campaign rhetoric and nothing more.
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"but as a basic legal principle -- "nobody is above the law" -- Obama's sentiment seems like the right one."
Well, duh.
Obama taught Constitutional Law so I should hope to kiss a duck that he has the right sentiment that nobody is above the law.
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Bush to the Hague
I imagine that no one is going to promise at this point to send Bush to the Hague, but it can be hoped that Obama has at least left the door open. There is no doubt that the bush clique has commited crimes, and we are probably only aware of a relatively small percentage. They cannot have eliminated all the evidence, and some of their crimes, like the on-going domestic spying programs, will still be around for closer inspection after they leave office.
If they leave office. I suppose that it has occurred to the dems that if bush et al feel especially threatened they will have even more incentive to do something that could provide an excuse to "postpone" elections for the duration of an emergency. Like bombing Iran, inviting their retaliation.
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Restoring the independence of the DOJ will do.
Presidents and their administrations should not give instructions to prosecute so-and-so from the opposite party. That's one of the impermissible things the Bush administration did that should not be repeated.
Obama should simply restore the traditional independence of the Department of Justice and let the justice system take it from there.
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No, it won't be done, but it SHOULD
It needs to be investigated and prosecuted. All the talk about needing to "move on" or "put it behind us" is total crap and ignores OUR responsibilty to our form of government. WE the people run the show, but for far too long we have let the elected folks do our work for us. Read the Constitution, The very first line is; "We the people of the United States,...."
NOT the politicians who are OUR elected representatives.
We have already lost every ounce of respect around the world, if we let the war crimes go unpunished, why in hell would any other country ever have any respect for America again?
As has been brought up by other posters above, we need to do this else we run the risk of it being done again at some future time.How can we pass that mess on to future generations? Will they not look back at us and say, why in hell didn't you punishe the crimes then?
War crimes and crimes against humanity HAVE been comitted and MUST be investigated completely. The gulity MUST be punished or we are no longer a country that believes in the rule of law.
For the record, I am a former US Marine and I served a tour in Vietnam, 1970-71. The act of going to war in Iraq was a crime in and of itself. It violated many international laws and treaties that were ratifed by our congress. That makes those laws and treaties OUR law also. Read OUR Constitution if you think I am wrong.
semper fi,
charlie
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@wysiwyg
Clinton was one of the better Republican presidents of late. At least Bush didn't burn out those polygamist Mormons Sect, did he? Who dropped more bombs on Iraq? Who repealed so many of the Nixon Era's "liberal" legislation? Oh yes, the economy was great, until the artificially created bubble burst and they raked in the loot from all the suckers.
Who didn't investigate and prosecute the high crimes and misdemeanors of the Reagan and Bush administrations?
I guess you can't expect a coconspirator and fellow Republican to investigate another one, can you?
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NOTHING will be done
The closest that any of these PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS will come to an investigation is scripting the bullshit to con the public into "thinking" there is/will be an investigation.
NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING will happen.
It is gangsters of the government against all of us.
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ANSWER IS "NO"
Since Obama won't give you an answer, I'll give it to you: No, he won't prosecute Bush even if all the evidence needed was staring him in the face the day he walked into the White House!
Obama has conveniently. for himself, and less so for the American people, boxed his "uniter" self into a bad corner and now will not be able to spend time delving into the corrupt Bush administraton or else his political enemies will use it against him. (Oh, yeah, and somebody tell Obama he has political enemies because he's under the wrong assumption that only "hope haters" are out to get him - or the Clintons).
Barack Obama would make a sorry President: One who will not bring the past Adminisration to justice for wrongs against the American people because he's so fixated with "turning the page" that he's willing to turn a blind eye - and a failed Democrat who will cost us seats by the mid-term congressional elections and set the party back 40 years.
"All that glitters is not gold." Especially today.
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VENGEANCE IS MINE.....
Obama should step up to the FORE
And NAIL BushCo's ASS to the DOOR!
The MYRIAD CRIMES of this CRIMINAL GROUP
And the MANY ILLEGALITIES to which they did STOOP
Will be PUNISHED with THEIR BLOOD & GORE!!!!!