If the Bush Regime isn't held accountable - What will...

[Solly Mack]

What will that say about us as a nation? As a people?

Will we just wait until enough years have gone by and claim how all that is part of the past and we can't change it now?

Will we wait until years go by and then issue an apology and feel good about ourselves because we did?

Without justice, can there ever really be true healing?

[BootinUp]

1. This is different than '92

Back then we had 6 years of Iran Contra investigations, the country was tired of that shit. This is a whole new day and investigations are warranted and will be supported by the people.

[Solly Mack]

3. I'm still not over Iran-Contra

and I wasn't too tired to convict a President and his VP...but that's me

I think people will say we are too tired now to do what we must do.

Some will claim America has been through enough and it's time to heal...only their healing will not involve justice.

I think Bush 2 is a direct result from not getting Reagan and Bush 1 (and all the rest of that crowd)for Iran-Contra.

[madokie]

12. You bet it is and if we don't stop them in their tracks we loose

and what we'll have lost is everything.

[rubberducky]

2. IMO Justice is MUST happen to this admin.

This country must demand this, not only for this country, but for Iraq, and the rest of the world. America MUST bring these criminals to justice, or we stand for nothing. If ever were imeachment was called for this is it, or we risk something like this happening again.

[Solly Mack]

4. I agree. It must happen - otherwise, there will never be any healing

[Jack Rabbit]

5. It will be the greatest thing we can say about ourselves as a nation

EDITED to fix link

No one is about the law. George W. Bush, even more than did Richard Nixon, has pushed against democratic principle until the Constitution has almost ripped under the stress.

He has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, he has spied indiscriminately on American citizens, he has asserted for himself the right to be judge, jury and executioner in criminal cases that he says a matters of national security. His police state measures, the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act, are nothing short of a modern day version the lettre de cachet, a hallmark of the tyranny of European absolute monarchy against which our forefathers rose and founded this nation.

It is for us to hold Mr. Bush and his lieutenants responsible for their foul misdeeds. If the United States justice system is unable or unwilling to prosecute, then an international tribunal should be establish as soon as possible for that purpose. We owe it to ourselves and the world to see to it that the war criminals of the Bush regime are punished.

[Solly Mack]

6. Beautifully said!!!!!!

Bravo!!!!

[Jack Rabbit]

7. Thank you

K/R

[Solly Mack]

8. kick. More people should read your post

[radfringe]

9. congressional investigations

a week or so ago - someone posted the number of congressional investigations during Clinton's administration versus the bush mis-administration

if I remember correctly - the number for Clinton was very high, while there have been 0 investigations for bush...

is there a site/link which has these statistics? Comparing investigations of past/present administrations?

[Solly Mack]

10. I remember seeing that

And it's very telling that there have been no real investigations into the actions of the Bush Regime.

How do we move forward as a nation if we are unwilling to hold government accountable?

And if government refuses to hold itself accountable with checks and balance, just what kind of government do we have?

I'm feeling very defrauded. I was handed a line about "consent of the governed"

Seems to me government wants me to be an active participant in a lie.

I don't consent to that.

[Toots]

11. Just having Bush* as our "Unitary Executive" says all that needs saying about

the USA as a nation. The world has an opinion about the USA and it is not flattering..