Israeli Ambassador To U.S., Michael Oren, Rejects International Investigation Of Flotilla Deaths

Israeli Ambassador To U.S., Michael Oren, Rejects International Investigation Of Flotilla Deaths:

"I don't think the United States would want an international inquiry into its military activities in Afghanistan, for example."

Or the Bush/Cheney gaggle of war criminals for that matter.

It's not rocket science!

Where are the DEMs?

It's just not rocket science!

Amazing! Once again the DEMs have allowed the GOP to redirect a critically important argument to the GOP’s advantage. The GOP has essentially changed the discussion of "enhanced interogation techniques" from “Is ‘water boarding’ torture?” to “ Was ‘water boarding’ effective?”

If ‘water boarding’ is torture then these horrible acts, over two hundred of them admitted to by government officials, were against both federal and international law. It does not matter if the “technique” was effective or not! It is especially egregious that these acts were committed in an attempt to prove a link between Sadam Hussein and the atrocity of “9/11”… a link that did not exist other than in the fear filled mind of our then Vice President.

Water boarding is torture. These acts were crimes. Those who committed them are war criminals. Those who directed them, those who conspired to legalize them, and those in positions of authority who were made aware of them and did nothing... are war criminals. We hanged several Japanese soldiers for water boarding following World War II. We established that water boarding was torture!

The list of such criminals apparently includes at least a past Vice President of the United States of America- Dick Cheney, a past Attorney General- John Ashcroft, a past Secretary of Defense- Donald Rumsfeld, and a past Secretary of State- Condoleezza Rice … National Security Advisor to our President at the time. And so many others including, quite possibly, the current Speaker of the House- Nancy Pelosi... who knew and did nothing.

It is incumbent on our current Attorney General to bring this matter to the courts... to indict and try these criminals. Else our current President’s rhetoric about the sanctity of the “rule of law” in our country is just more hot air. I don’t see “Change you can believe in” from our new Administration on this issue! I see "Circle the wagons and keep your heads down."

It does not appear that any real investigation of these crimes will be mounted, much less will any indictments be handed down. And this stain on American honor will never be erased... certainly not by our vaunted system of justice.

Hardly the new image of America we were all hoping for.

Andrew Card is still here... amazing

On Thursday former Bush White House chief of staff Andrew Card told conservative talker Michael Medved that he felt the new White House dress code showed a lack of “respect” for the Office of the Presidency.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/31/card-oval-office/

Amazing. I would find it hard to believe that the chief of staff of the most incompetent White House in the history of our country has the arrogance to comment on just about any operational policy the current White House chooses to implement, except.... that the Bush White House is also in the running for the most arrogant collection of incompetents in our history. The Senate may edge them out of that distinction, but they've had a big head start.

I should think that those trying to rebuild a meaningful Republican Party would encourage Bush White House staffers to disappear for the foreseeable future... maybe for ever. Silence should be golden. "Go away! Get out of Washington! Don't come back!" should be the message.

Alas, not so. The "old" party is apparently going to fight the "new" party tooth and nail to keep the same old culprits in power in the House and the Senate. A principle tenant of their argument will apparently be that republicans have nothing to be ashamed of... that the Bush legacy is one of accomplishment and success... that the free exercise of republican thinking by the Bush administration and his captive Congress did not destroy our beloved country. Well, they have destroyed our country. We will never get back all that they destroyed... ever.

Amazing. Even the village idiot himself clearly knows his legacy is one of unmitigated disaster. He is incapable of admitting failure of course... but his public body language is pretty clear. Even Nixon departed Washington with a less abject face than did the dubya. Well, Nixon did much less damage. Republicans should be ashamed.

It's just not rocket science!