WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION? WHILE WE'RE UP TO OUR ASSES IN ALLIGATORS?
So many good people on the far left, with the purest of hearts and intentions, many my good friends, are crying out for war crimes and civil liberties inquiries (read: Cheney's head on a stick). Please, folks, give it up. We had an election. That zeitgeist, all wrapped up in the "Bush Doctrine" (Yes, Sarah, there was one) was repudiated. Let it be.
Talented but new people are working very hard on saving our country (and, not incidentally, the world) from several pandemic diseases, possibly dangerous global climate change, global economic meltdown,restoring mutual sovereignty of the organized countries of the world, ending two wars, effectively restoring habeas corpus and, right or wrong, saving the American Auto Industry. Do we really want to take the time to do a retrospective of a foolish and squandered time? Does anybody really need affirmation that we need a new direction? Do we really want to run the risk of making public the secret things upon which we based our decisions. Do we really want to show what methods and techniques we used to obtain sometimes useful intelligence.
Yes, I'd like to see Wolfy and Perle further publicly embarassed. Maybe even Cheney and that slam-dunker but the price is too high and the outcome won't be justice. The outcome will be squandered opportunity.
Give it a rest, pure-hearted people. 1968 called. It wants its themes back.
posted by UMRBlog @ 10:39
6 comments
6 Comments:
In '01 when GWB was first elected and the GOP controlled congress, the GOPers wanted to go after Clinton's people for various high crimes, etc.
But since Bush had sworn to "change the tone" in DC after the divisive Clinton years, he was able to put the cabosh on this, plus he issued an executive order placing presidential papers, including Clinton's, out of reach, which Obama has now overturned.
But my question to you UMR, is whether you believe the GOPers who wanted to go after Clinton's people were "good people . . . with the purest of hearts and intentions" or do you believe they were being petty and vindictive?
Or were you just being sarcastic about the "purest of hearts" bit because the Bush "war crimes" stuff has been investigated to death and nothing ever turned up?
I'd have to go individual by individual. In general, I think the Amnesty International types who really, really believe that the only way to deter human rights violations in the name of anti-terrorism is hold inquiries are probably a little purer of heart than Tom DeLay.
I disagree with the AI types but I feel I can ascribe honorable motives to them beyond mere political opportunism.
Maybe it's like the Death Penalty Defense bar says "Death is Different."
"War is Different" (type of inquiry).
I still say let's look through the windshield and spend less time in the rear view mirror. OTOH, I appreciate and understand your question.
TYFCB
Strange as it may be , but I am willing to give Obama a few years to either screw up or become the true WONDERKIND . Rome wasn't built or sacked in a day
Not strange at all. How'd Lincoln look his first year?
TYFCB
Some would say Lincoln looked like a disaster all the way through.
I know some constitutional scholars who still have trouble reconciling some of the brutalities he inflicted on that worthy document with all the good things he accomplished.
I suspect Lincoln himself would be appalled at how we have made him into some kind of quaqsi-Greek demi-god.
He'd probably tell an earthy and self-deprecating frontier joke at this point and then go have another "rum sweat", leaving the rest of us to our silliness.
As an American I always give our POTUS a ton of leeway , until they either screw up major or in four years someone else can do it better.
Too bad congress is the real mess. I would love to see term limits in congress .
5 terms in the House
3 Terms in the Senate
I would bet things would be far different in DC
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