Obama Leaves Door Open (a Bit) On Prosecuting Bush Officials

If the Dems want to lose in 2010 and 2012- by all means start the witch hunts. That will do so much to unite the Republicans and conservatives of the party and kill any bipartisanship that is left in Congress.And I’m sure Pelosi and Reid have more important things to do like protecting their Democratic corript Rangel, Dodd and Frank who have a ethics cloud over them but are still committee chairs. So as someone once said’ Bring it on’.

My how we throw out words like “torture” without even knowing what the word means. Good thing that Islamic extremists don’t use torture…
Let’s just prosecute our military. Yup, that’s the ticket!

I think that JSchmidt is right. Attempting to prosecute Bush or any members of the intelligence community would only galvanize the opposition.
We will eventually get the truth, but it does not need to be a priority to the Obama Administration in his first term.

Hello Good morning America my favorite show,why Torry Johnson doesn’t have email? or we i click email from her site , it is not going thorough ? how can i contact her for Job or Job at home? I love you all & i like to know were is Same ?

I wonder if any of the families of killed service men or women would allow some type of torture if it would bring their family member back? If it takes cutting the b**ls off one of those ba*t*rds to get info on where IED’s are placed then start cutting. Bleeding heart liberals will the end of this country.
If any type of prosecution takes place it should be pointed towards wallstreet.

Prosecute Bush & Cheney, FIRST!!!!

There will be one, unlikeable fall guy that will suffer a token prosecution by the Obama administration. Bush, like Reagan, will have “memory lapses” and survive special prosecution with ease.

Look? our country is divided 50/50 on many things, especialy on religion, the for fathers had it right when keeping it out of our goverment, unfortunutly not all its in our courts, swear on the bible so help you god. what ngod whos god should not be there. on our money should not be there! whos god what god.supposed gods and suposed rules of gods and lunitics right and left are the main causes of all the wars and conflicts of all time. if you took gos and especially religon out of the sinaryo, we would all be so much more concerned and caring to all those around us. we should not be citisens of the our countries but citisins of the world first, if a god as you all say created every thing in our world and the universe than why should we follow like lemings and kill those we disagree with just to satisfy a certain rule of a certain god, our forfathers came to america, with the suposed reson of religous freedom, what freedom ? you simpiltons argue that barroks hussain barrama, must be muslim and so can possibly be our president and yet you numbskulls, spout religious fredom, but if its a religion you dont like the hell with them , well sirs and madem idgits if you are a citizen of the supposed great country , you can be anything you want or strive too be. those are the rules my, but of course people like you pick and choose what rules to follow /// as did pres. bush , chaney rumsfeld, rice and the rest of the administration, but those that had the sense to say hell no!!! and got out. So us the other half you say, but not half on these war crimes, more like 70%, believe in the rule of law , thats what this country is governed by so we believe everyone has to follow the laws or suffer the conciquinces, but you all go back to the pick and chose . well we all believe the rules are for us all! even the, no most of all our elected officils, wake up get your collective heds out of your collected arses?

Obama’s general direction seems to be to wipe the slate clean. Bush officials were operating by an extremely misguided principle and Obama knows that. Perhaps that principle was even unconstitutional, but Obama makes it clear that it is not part of his active agenda to go after crimes of the previous administration. I believe there would have to be a much larger public movement to prosecute. Otherwise Obama is afraid of distracting from his larger mission of building a bipartisan coalition government.

It will not be Obama that pushes it. But Pelosi and Reid. If they don’t have a turnaround of the economy in 6 months, look for them to start hearings on the Bush Administration to take the focus away from their incompetence. Then they’ll spend months on the hearing, not proving anything but since media is left leaning the headlines will be big and the lefty commentators will be condemn the Republicans in the press and continue to do it until 2010. In the end, nothing will be proven, but the Dems will have their headlines and the appearance like they did something. And through it all Pelosi and Reid will protect their corrupt politicians, Rangel, Frank and Dodd.

i think the best thing is for the UN to hand up indictments and the cases can be tried in the International UN Court in The Hague. that we do not follow our own laws (and the political considerations in the US inhibit prosecution here) makes an international court the ideal path to persue torture and extraordinary rendition. waterboarding is considered torture in international law and so is extraordinary rendition. we do not better ourselves as a nation by torturing. and as has already been pointed out torture does not yield meaningful information just false confessions and whatever the torturer wants the prisoner to say.

Given that “torture” occurred before 2005, why is nobody mentioning that Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, and George Tenet need to be impeached also?
You stupid, stupid people!

My apologies to Fred for jumping in…

Stan, the article is about prosecution for illegal wire tapping and torture. Some think that Bush was listening in on Grandma when she was discussing her fruit cake recipe. Of course these same people are ecstatic about the fact that dozens of would be terrorist acts were thwarted by “illegal” wire tapping.
It’s my opinion that those who object to our operations directed at catching terrorists are probably cooking meth in their garage.

Stan—just so you know torture is something that happens outside a controlled situation. you don’t get sedation or anesthesia, pumpkin. but what would you know. obviously you’ve been waterboarded to imply it’s no big deal. if you have been waterboarded i apologize for my comment.

onlineslobant…it goes both ways..
Yes, absolutely. Go after Clinton and Gore for 1. Lying to the American people for the purposes of engaging in sex and collecting illegal funds from China 2. lying under oath 3. granting pardons to criminals in exchange for favors and money. Anything less than investigation and prosecution will be an embarrassment to this country, and a major act of perfidy by the Obama Administration.

For those questioning torture- let’s say there is a nuke set to go off in 24 hours in a major city in the US. There is 1 terrorist that knows the location you have captured him. What do you do? Call any family you have to get out of town? Get out of town yourself? Or torture? Which one is the appropriate response? Just a little idea to think on.

sensealot-that doesn’t seem to apply to Frank, Dodd and Rangel.

Paul doesn’t quite grasp reality. Leave him alone, Stan.

Stan—through torture i experienced incomprehensible pain and i have plenty to show for those experiences. you and Exmo get off on humiliating and denigrating people you disagree with. your making fun of people as if you were some kind of ill-behaved second-grader makes it all the more apparent that you say what you say and have no desire to engage in meaningful debate. like you are a magna-cum-laude from the Rush Limbaugh Institutre for Advanced Conservative Studies. you very well could have reasd my original post and made an honest effort at disagreement. but you and Exmo are always right and everyone else is wrong. that’s not engaging.

Stan—”I’m sure you finished, Paul. Please retire while you’re…ummmm, well behind.” way too young to retire. not all victims of torture are tortured in the military. and not all people who serve their country and pay a price for that are soldiers.
“Let’s hear it, sugar cakes.”—honestly what do you mean. i don’t agree with you so i’m gay. instead of caling me cutsie second-grade-school-girl names why not just call me a f*g like you want to.

The liberal left would rather have thousands of Americans die a horrific death rather than pour a little water in some terrorists face. I look at the nominees to Obama’s cabinet & all I can say is God help us. I can still say God for now can’t I?

Paul Wall – A major attack of LA Airport was thwarted due to water boarding. You are clueless and uninformed.

For those that think water boarding doesn’t work:
According to a CNN interview with intelligence expert Rohan Gunaratna, “Daniel Pearl was going in search of the al Qaeda network that was operational in Karachi, and it was at the instruction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that Daniel Pearl was killed.”[33] On October 12, 2006, Time magazine reported that “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed under CIA interrogation that he personally committed the murder.” On March 15, 2007, the Pentagon released a statement that Mohammed had confessed to the murder. The statement quoted Mohammed as saying, “I decapitated with my blessed right hand the head of the American Jew, Daniel Pearl, in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. For those who would like to confirm, there are pictures of me on the Internet holding his head.”

Be Very Careful Mr President Elect!
Once the Genie is out of the bottle
you can’t put it back in!
The Republicans will be back in power
some day and payback is a Bitch!
If you want to prosecute someone start
with your Secretary of State designate,
Hillary Clinton, then go to your
VP-Elect, Joe Biden and the rest of
your Democrat colleagues in the
Congress who went along with the
decision to invade Iraq and kept yelling
about the WMD that Saddam had!
You’d better move forward and don’t
listen to the leftwing kooks in your
Party.

firstly “badboy”, I doubt that you could even give me the definition of “perfidy”.Secondly. When are you right-wing hacks going to get off the Clinton horse. You do realize that he has’nt been president for over eight years, and I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of the country would take the Clinton years over the unelected one’s any day.As a matter of fact, Clinton left office with a 69% approval rating. What is the un-elected one’s approval rating as he is leaving?

Paul, please be advised that the US has gained extremely valuable information through the use of waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other non-injurous techniques. This has resulted in saving US lives. Why you want us to lose is beyond me.

If he does go on a partisan witch hunt, we won’t be able to staff our military, the CIA, our intelligence agencies. Smart people will realize their leaders will use them for political fodder instead of protecting them so they can do their jobs so they will say no to government service. I pity the fools that will let the dems grind them up

“you would figure after 7 years we would have tons of information yielded”
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Obviously your a complete novice when it comes to this. What we learned, exactly how we learned it, and how many attacks/lives here and abroad were saved is NEVER going to be a part of the public record.
Certainly there will be some leaks, some people will try to make a buck off selling what little they know, but the real story will remain classified for a very long time. Then when documents are realeased under the freedom of information act, there will still be many pages painted in black.
I have stated this here many times, You cannot win if your playing by a set of rules, and your enemy is play with NO rules. I am constantly amazed at how many people are nieve or just plain stupid to think that when you fight an enemy that plays by NO rules, that you can somehow win by being the good guy and only playing by a set of “civilized” rules of engagement.
As far as so-called “torture” goes, I would ask each and every person to think this through before they decide just how high on the moral ladder they think we need to be.
If your child or spouse were taken, their life threatened & a deadline was approaching, would you “torture” a person who could help save your loved one? Or would you let your family member die rather than press a suspect who culd save them?
If you can truthfully say you would sacrifice your family for your moral standing on “torture”, you are thew only one who should be criticizing the current administration.
After 9/11, we were all, repeat ALL, asking our government to do whatever is necessary to keep us and our families safe.
If your unwilling to stomach that at time it is going get a bit nasty to perform that duty, then by all means feel free to volunteer to sacrifice yourself and your family in the next attack.
It would be wonderful if everyone in the world would fight their battles by a nice set of rules. That world does not exist!

ajax—i am sorry to hear about your brother. the only reason i mention torture here and my experience (which i wouldn’t release details about and likewise have no desire to talk about it) is the same reason many who have experience torture feel the need to talk about it. so that the country we love doesn’t practice it.
perhaps your brother doesn’t like to be reminded of his torture and experiences with waterboarding. and that should be indicative of what torture does to people. your brother was an innocent soldier in a war where he was tortured. the VA isn’t exactly a model for providing therapy for soldiers who are tortured, even now.
i would never mention my own experience except that it is important for people who mouth off about torture have some clue about what they are talking about. the details are mine and i wouldn’t share them with anyone outside my family, doctor or close friends.
that you don’t believe me or think i am not sincere is regrettable and sad. that you think i would make something like torture up to make a cheap point in a debate shows where we are as individual and as a society. but i cannoy worry about what you think of me. all i can tell you is i know what torture is and not only in an abstract way.
i hope that your brother is still with you. and it is never too late to get help from the psychological trauma and emotional sequelae of torture. as you know the physical consequences of torture exist too. and that is a source of shame for many as well.
and it isn’t easy to mention my experience. i’m certain that if your brother were to read on this blog that torture is nothing and let’s all suck it up he might be angry and feel betrayed. which is how i felt and compelled me to write in.
thanks for your service to our nation and your family’s service and endurance as well.
in a way i think your posting about your family’s experieence (a very private matter) is noble. you showed how torture can ruin people for life. that’s something few people who advocate the use of torture are completely unaware of.
peace and blessings.

stan stan ,jschmidt, and your new leader phogh, whom ill call pooh cause his head up his jar, now that I’ve got your attention, boys & girls and others , oh yeah i forgot i need to apologize for my spelling, I’m dyslexic and on top of that was emotional and forgot to spell check, and this is mark w again, ill try to do better.
listen ! the point seems to just be passed over, or ignored but it cannot if we wish to be the people we profess to be!!! rules are rules and this land our country is based on the rule of law, you seem to want to pick and chose the rules and laws as did the members of gw’s admin. have chosen to do. We hold for instance 25% of all the prisoners in the world in our prisons, you want to give a 5 year sentence to a guy for smoking a joint, but our elected officials you want to let follow only the laws they wish to based on any excuse. I and the 70% like me only want equal justice for all, they need to follow all the rules / ideas/ laws and pledges that we as a country make or decree, we want all the heretic’s, criminals, and lunatics held to the same standards, rules ,,etc. that you all, as well as ourselves must follow, or suffer the consequences of our actions.John Mccain is an American like all of us, and he withstood unbelievable torture way above water boarding and a person that i admire and respect, and he, you all, is against any torture. So if we pledge, pass laws and make rules, then we follow them, all not by choice of those you wish to follow, than call bin la-din he’s waiting, we as Americans do not cut off heads either even though we could.
Rule of law is this country, we must follow it no matter what, gw and his clan have chosen as you all, to be the decider, along with the real pres. Chaney and his cohorts rumsfeld rice and rowe,and therefore have to come to terms with those decisions! With these choices to do as they wanted, have brought up new recruits to bin la din and his clan, with every bad choice they made more of our enemies an who have grown stronger, this is why intelligent people like ourselves around the world have cringed at each of the horrible choices gw and his clan have made, with no regard to what we the people want.when regular people around the world see that we are choosing to follow only the rules we havetochosin follow, what do you think that lunatics like bin la-din and his followers both old and new think?
you can use the excuse that gw got bad Intel but the truth is he was warned it was bad and still destroyed Iraq and all of the infrastructure,it is still today 5 years later a hell hole for humans to live in. if it were done to you, and your family, and 5 years later you were still unemployed, no electric , (you’d complain after a couple days) and no water and sewage, and no food and bombs going off daily, i understand their dismay and anger.
any one and i mean anyone no matter their position should be judged by the Hague,if they are found innocent than so be it but if there is enough evidence to bring them to trial it has to be done or our credibility as a great nation of the world will count for nothing and i for one enjoyed the way that the majority of the world held us up to, as the example to rise too, we need to get that back an soon, or we will plumb-it to obscurity, I know that all of you want to think we are ignorant or unpatriotic, but as you we love our country and feel the death of our children, in battle, dieing daily in these death traps, and feel for every family caught up in this mess that gw and his clan caused,,,, as did i feel for my friends (children) who in the 60s as i grew up, were hauled of to another mistake of a war, and just as now i fight, and argue to bring our children home, i did then because my friends were being killed and maimed and mentally changed for life due to that unjust war. and hopefully we can end this before we loose the numbers of deaths in Nam, but with the care they get now the deaths are less but the physical maimed and mental anguish is making up the numbers. Hope be it that pres elect ob can bring our old friends back , by showing that we are back on track.
phogh and his friends are like a lot and-our for fathers, they came to this land for supposed religious freedom, but soon used the original true people of America, and greed took over and so they set out to slaughter them or cheat them out of their lands and finally when that did not work they pressed the genocide further with the introduction of biological warfare with giving them in supposed help (poison blankets),then that was not enough so they out of sport and greed said, lets starve them to genocide by killing their, main way of sustaining life by also committing genocide on our cousins the buffalo and for not a man saving 15 we would not have them to enjoy. our real Americans the native amer. have more numbers but have mostly been stripped of their heritage, again by stripping them of their beliefs and culture. we have never really come to terms with our own disgraceful history, let alone apologized, or taught it in our schools, but we chastise Hitler and every other person we deem of questionable character, and crimes but never of our own , also the treatment of our citizens the japanese during the war, fear brings stupidity, to all types of men. slow down and read, understand all that you can, before you talk or at least before you judge us. thanks mark w

Reagan fan. you say be careful because the repugs will be back in power some day. spoken like a true republican. dont do the right thing due to quid-pro-quo. This is the exact type of thinking that has us where we are today. protection of the powerful by the powerful. sorry, doesnt wash.

i’m sure the CIA has gained actionable intelligence. how much of that was obtained by torture i do not know. i doubt much. the CIA could certainly let us know statistically if their torture regime is working without divulging secret information. just staitistics: how many tortured—out of those tortured what percent led to actionable information. i’m sure there are a couple which have.
please remember the US is a signatory to the Geneva conventions and the International Court (UN) has ruled that 1) waterboarding is torture 2) extraordinary rendition is illegal on its face.
if you think torture is a good thing then by all means let’s ccange our US laws and remove ourselves as signatories from the Geneva Convention/ Accords. that way we will legally be able to practice torture. it will always be an international crime, so torturers will likely have to stay in the country but none appear wanting to travel abroad anyway.
and of course we should be understanding when US soldiers and citizens are tortured because other nations need “actionable intelligence too.”
i suggest that part of the US remaining the greatest nation on earth is that we do not succome to Khmer Rouge-type torture tactics. we are a better nation than that and that is why Obama is not going to use these practices.
i don’t think any US officials should be prosecuted in the US, but i think the UN should hand up indictments. international jurisprudence is important and should be respected. and if we can’t obey our own laws maybe we can obey international law. the UK has not used waterboarding or extraordinary rendition and have foiled many terrorist plots.
“beware of those in whom the wish to punish is strong.”—Nietzsche

We cannot tolerate the rape of the people’s government and injustice that the Bush Admin has incurred. The people demand accountibility and a sign to others that greed and criminality WILL NOT be allowed to shape America or the world!
Investigations and prosecutions MUST be part of OUR MOVING FORWARD!

The democrats only one thing and that is hate – I am sick of these rats like reid or palosi – go ahead do your worst why change now. Obama would be well served if doesn’t let these washington bums have their way. Tell them to spend their time on working for a living and do what they were sent to washington to do. God knows they have plenty to work on.
We need to vote out everyone and start over – they have ruined our way of life – yet not one had the guts to step up and take responsibility. Franks, palosi, reid, etc. no guts – Bush will be good to beat up for 4 years than what losers than what????

Paul Wall, you lost me at 5 year sentences for people smoking joints. Such a crime is an infraction to which no jail time is attached. All the nonsense you are spewing is just the typical Kool Aid from the far left play book. You want the rule of law? No where does it say we give terrorists any mercy at the expense of our citizens. Paul Wall, you and your leftist pals are pussies.

McBain—the person talking about weed was “mark young.” i found it difficult to understand his post at all. no worries i’ve made the same mistake.
i know we have to get critical information from people who wish us ill. but there are other ways than using torture. scaring them isn’t torture, making false promises of release aren’t war crimes. all i have read is that torture yields very poor results. i just feel the best thing to do is follow our (US) laws and international law.
and waterboarding is only the surface. extraordinary rendition is really bad and is a serious war crime: when you capture a person and have them transported to a third country where they will be tortured without any decent limits.

If it’s authorized by congress or the president, it’s not a war crime. That is todays clue. No one is going to be tried. Move on, nothing to see here.

What all the bloodthirsty pro-torture posters here are forgetting is WHY torture is a bad idea, even if you don’t get it that it’s just plain morally wrong. The reason that you don’t torture is to create an international standard of human rights wherein torture is illegal and criminal automatically. Then, when your soldiers are captured, they have at least moral and hopefully practical claim to not be tortured. Many more of our enemies will use torture on us in the future if we lead an international consensus that says it’s ok and won’t be prosecuted. That’s why we don’t bomb the enemy’s hospitals in a war. There can be no peace and now freedom until the war criminals Bush and Cheney are in prison.

Stan Switek—”If it’s authorized by congress or the president, it’s not a war crime.” international law has universal jurisdiction. war crimes were authorized by Hitler, Goering, Frank. there were laws passed in the NAZI state making their actions legal. the fact is that torture is a crime under international law. has congress passed a law making waterboarding legal? if you would be so kind to share that law. i am unaware. if the president and congress decide to practice war crimes its legal? and you are quite seriously? please provide some legal presedence. the NAZIs used this same defense (unsuccessfully). torture is never ok in international law. it is without exception a crime against humanity.

well sorry mcBain it was i mark w that mentioned the joint to the joint for 5 and yes that was done , my friends did the time. but, that’s not worth talking about i was trying to say that law is law and the law says torture is illegal and there is no clause saying that our president is above our laws so he is guilty,as well as the rest of his clan and as someone said then bill Clinton should be charged to as i said before i believe that it is time that anyone from anywhere or any party has to be prosecuted for crimes committed or we are living a fake dream( that dream being the wonderful USA) this country is based on the rule of law so lets make everyone follow it.

Jimt:
Just about all of the Dems in the
Senate voted to give Bush the
authority to go to war in Iraq!
In fact the biggest hue and cry about
WMD came from Hillary Clinton and Joe
Biden!
I didn’t hear too many protests from
them about torture either!
Like it or not President Bush has kept
us safe since the 9/11 attacks!
Attempting to criminalize foreign policy
decisions will make us the laughing
stock of the world and further
encourage the terrorists to attack us
again!

Stan Switek—of course no one is going to be tried. there was never any doubt about that. we (the US) are signatories to international law and are obliged to obey it.
waterboarding and extraordinary rendition are illegal under international law.
i think individuals responsible should be indicted in international criminal courts.
but you are correct. nothing will ever be done to them. no charges in the US.

Your program will not work. It ignores the elephant in the room, the Federal Reserve. Also, feeding One Trillion Dollars to a bunch of fat tick construction and remodeling companies is insane! It’s nothing more than trickledown job creation. What guarantee do WeThePeople have those new jobs will be created, instead of raises being given to “favored” emlpoyees INCLUDING THE OWNER. At least start with One Half Trillion to WeThePeople, and the other half for infrastructure! Unless a radical change is made, Mr. President, beginning with the re-organization of the Federal Reserve, you will become the first American President to preside over the Greatest of All Depressions. I hope this helps.
Further, Mr. President, our economic system is based on two main principals. The first is that consumer spending is two-thirds of the economy. The second is that every dollar spent at retail is spent seven times in a year. The current plan is to send 90% of the money to non-consumers. Any plan that does not target consumers is doomed to failure.
It makes no sense to offer help to fat tick construction companies when consumers are not spending and banks are not lending. Is it too much to ask that the American Family get something directly to help their “crumbling economic structure” when consumers are not spending, and banks are not lending? You are not FDR despite the Time Magazine Article. Quit listening to FDR experts. We’re at a New Gate! I AM OPPOSED TO TRICKLE DOWN JOB ECONOMICS, MR. PRESIDENT, THEY DO NOT WORK!!!
http://vimeo.com/2783535

jennifertexan—i hope you can find a way to express your feelings without “hitting the first democrat you see in the face.” just because you disagree with someone does not mean they hate their country. whether you like it or not all faiths are practiced in our free nation. christian, white people do not own the united states. i disagree with you but don’t think that entitles me to tell you to get out of the country. this is a free country for us all.

RICHARD ALAN HASKELL PETER—”WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEMAND”. please don’t speak for “the people” just yourself. maybe some friends can sign it, but don’t act as though you speak for the people. this is just a blog. it reads like you want to start a petition or a political action committee. this isn’t the right venue. people are just expressing opinions here.

As mentioned above, the place to prosecute Bush and minions is the Hague.

It’s real simple: No prosecution, no peace, and certainly no two-term presidency.
For torture: the Hague or I.C.C.
For subversion: the U.S. Justice Department.
There is no gray area.
http://www.light-to-dark.com/Stephen_Pitt_Cartoons.html

There is going to be no trial in the Hague or any other place. All those European countries would be speaking German or Russian if not for the USA.
People bitch that the Bush administration didn’t connect the dots before 9/11. Now, because the administration acted to connect the dots, a few leftist liberal kooks want to prosecute? Give me a break. IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! Get over it cry babies. Stomp your feet, wring your wrists & shout all you want. No one will be prosecuted and that is exactly the way it should be.
You look at the complaints of the leftist kooks. They would rather see innocent Americans die that have our intel people listen in on terrorist phone calls or pour some water in some terrorists face.

I hope all you leftist morons calling for prosecution of Bush & Cheney realize that Clinton & Gore would also have to be prosecuted. Rendition & enhanced interrogation started on their watch. You guys have really short or should I say selective memories.

and i have no delusions that it therre will ever be any trials, my only contention was that US officials violated international law (many are boldly proud of it like Cheney) and are eligible for prosecution under international law.
there are certainly bigger fish to fry, like the leaders of Sudan. the people who live in Darfur have terrorist events every single day. sad you aren’t concerned about them speaking Russian, Mr. Wolfcastle. but i forget, terrorism only happens to Americans. africans deserve nothing. pathetic.
torture is an ugly business. people who support it have no idea of what it is. read up!

Bush and Cheney for 8 more years.
In Gitmo!

Have no delusions they will walk away and make millions for appearances.
Obama and holder will ignore there duty.
Anybody who thinks the oath these guys take means a damn thing is blind to the fact that the law only applies to the poor.

911 Was An Inside Job. Watch the movie on Google called FABLED ENEMIES. Arrest all the criminals.

In reading some of rightwing comments
I am truly convinced that they are
either educated or uneducated FOOLS.

I have no doubt that upon reading the comments of the leftists here, the vast majority of Americans would think “what a bunch of fracking retards.”

We can not allow one administration to cover for the previous corrupt and treasonous administration before it. This cycle of moving forward and ignoring crimes and genocide has to stop. The line should be in the sand since the people demand it.
Each President takes more power than allowed under our Constitution. We are a democracy under attack by the oligarcy who act in their own self interest. It is destroying us and many in our world since we are powerful and many don’t dare challenge our leader’s policies.
Obama to obtain any credibility at all has to by Executive Order negate all of the Bush signing statements and removal of rights acts (Patriot Act, FEMA powers, etc.) on his first day of office.(much like Jefferson a
nd the Sedition Act).

Biff Tannen—i’m just curious why anyone who has an opinion other than yours is a traitor or supports terrorists. torture is a crime in the U.S. (see the Charles Taylor, Jr. case for successful prosecution in U.S. Federal Court) and is a crime in international law. there are many ways to gain intelligence from a person other than torture.
if the U.S. were to leave the Middle East and let Israel handle its own business we will have no more terrorist attacks. constant intervening and interfering in other nations will make the U.S. a target. just think if we never supported Saddam Hussein or the Shah of Iran.

This one you get the underwear of the radical left in a bunch for sure.
Court Affirms Wiretapping Without Warrants
Choke on it!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/washington/16fisa.html?_r=1&hp

Mr Destroyer—”choke on it.” that’s some irony.

So many people have suffered and died because of this administrations war efforts which have now been proven to be based on false information. If President Bush sought his presidency soley to complete what his father started in the Middle East using the power of our military as his tool, then he has abused us all. He was elected to lead and to take care of the people he represented. This did not happen. Instead, we have been oppressed by his personal mission based on his familys’ oil interests. I hope someone somewhere finds a way to hold him and his associates responsible for the damage he has caused snd the thousands of lives that have been taken due to his decisions. I lost my grandmother, my aunt, and my sister during the last four years of his presidency. All before their time. All due to the lack of accountability now present in the health care industry. They were good hard working people who just couldn’t take anymore. I will miss them, and I hope our next President will make the changes needed to keep this from continuing.

I say we have Bush killed & then all of you idiots can shut up and hug a soldier!

So when do we get to go after women who have abortions and the doctors that commit them. Hey, an abortions takes a life. That is a medical fact that the medical community is aware of and that had been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt. So…you want to go after Bush, et al who wnet after the scum that were hurting and killing hundreds of thousands in Iran as well as our own sholdiers? So be it. But us “righties” will make sure the abortion supporters as well as the “Pro Choicers” are prosecuted in a court of law as well.

If Obama wants to start a witch hunt, why doesn’t he start with himself and his birth certificate and be honest about it.