OH THEY’LL LOVE HIM IN EUROPE. Barack Obama: Bush officials could be prosecuted.
on 04/22/2009 at 09:09 AM
Я ненавижу Obama так много! Он должен ПОЙТИ! Unless, of course, our children must learn it like this: 我非常恨Obama! 他必须去!
All hail the messiah, destroyer of nations.
This is a non starter, just where can this clown find someone on his side of the fence with any sort of moral compass as a comparison?
Posted by Chris Edwards
04/22/2009 at 07:37 PM
I like Ed Morrissey’s take on it:
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/21/obama-flip-flops-on-potential-torture-prosecutions/
“Obama can open the door to prosecutions, but who will he prosecute? He’ll find it difficult to go after the interrogators, who relied on some strange opinions from the normally-binding Office of Legal Counsel. The prosecution can try undermining that by claiming it as a Nuremberg defense, but this wasn’t Nazi Germany and the OLC exists to give this kind of legal direction. Interrogators relied on those interpretations in good faith.
That leaves George Tenet and the OLC attorneys, but they didn’t conduct the torture, and the OLC didn’t order the interrogations, either. They responded to a request from the CIA to opine on the legality of the procedures. Holder can prosecute Tenet, but then he’d also have to file charges against several members of Congress who were briefed on the procedures and never objected — including current Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If Tenet would get prosecuted for ordering the interrogation techniques, then Pelosi and others would have to get prosecuted for being accessories in not taking action to stop them.”
You go, Barack… prosecute. Please. The attempts to spin this the way you want it will be the most amusing thing I’ve seen on TV since Monty Python.
Yes, dictators go after and either prosecute (i.e. jail) or kill previous Leaders - such a wonderful, uplifting, uniting and inclusive precedent to set right now. Second, as posted (since we read it - for those of us who read beyond the eye catching headline and first sentence) that Congress indeed has been briefed and knew and approved of all - including the Iraq War from the beginning.
The One (tm) is just such a walking contradiction - I can’t wait until he hits the tipping point because it isn’t going to be pretty.
Gee how does that go - paybacks are a b****. Or is it what goes around comes around. Or is it those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Or better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt. Yea, that’s The One (tm).
04/22/2009 at 02:26 PM
