Monday, November 17, 2008

No Plans to Investigate Bush Administration War Crimes?


Image from source, Raw Story

When the Clinton Administration gave way to George W. Bush's, the ditto-heads didn't know what to do with themselves for a while. They'd been trained by Rush Limbaugh and others to attack, attack, attack the Clintons over any perceived (and many invented) indescretion. In full attack mode, they just couldn't stop, spewing "but, but, but Clinton. . ." as an answer to any criticism of Bush.

"Give it up, he's not President anymore!" was the return salvo of long-defensive Democrats. Well, that pendulum has swung back to the other side now, and we can expect a reverse situation. All of the stored up wrongs committed by the Bush Administration have stuffed up our brains for a long time. We've begged and pleaded for Congress or the Justice Department to do something before time ran out. But impeachment was off the table. The DOJ wouldn't investigate anything. And predictibly, time is now running out.

We keyboard warriors are quite used to the treatment we get from right-wingers online, and we're going to have to guard ourselves for the coming "Give it up, he's not President anymore!" when we complain about Bush getting off scot free. When they start picking at every little nit, we're going to throw back war crimes, and they're going to say "Hey, if he did anything illegal, why isn't he in jail?" It's the downside to winning, but I guess it's worth it in the end.

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Obama advisers: Bush era war criminals will walk

Even as President-elect Obama vowed "to regain America's moral stature in the world" during Sunday's 60 Minutes appearance, two of his senior advisers confessed there is no intent to pursue those in the Bush administration who engaged in torture, a war crime. . .

Read more at: Raw Story


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