Pacifica Riptide: I'll Never Forget Whatsisname: Last Day 1/20/09

I don't suggest picking on the ex-president or making him feel bad. I suggest that if this country wants to ever return to the rule of law we need to either try and prosecute our own war criminals or send them to The Hague and let the World Court do so. Our failure to prosecute Kissinger and Reagan is what got us the excesses of the Cheney Administration. Failure to hold powerful and connected people as accountable as you or I would be even for considerably lesser crimes, will buy us worse and worse leaders. Obama needs to know that it isn't his issue to be conciliatory about. He should appoint a special prosecutor and then get out of the way. He needn't be more involved in the process than that. If we want a government of laws and not of cronies it is the only way.

Posted by: Dan Underhill | January 14, 2009 at 08:33 AM

It's easy to pick on an ex-president --- quite another thing to go forward and get out of this mess!

Posted by: Summer Rhodes | January 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM

GW reminds me of this dude I went to Oceana with- I see him wandering around town, with his characteristic up and down loping walk - I can't decide if he has done too many drugs or is a little slow. Well, maybe more than a little. But Georgie is "privileged" unlike my old school chum, whom I tutored (for extra units) in the portable buildings in the back.
I am pretty sure does not remember me despite 4 years even when I address him by name in greeting) - both of these fellows are just not all there, as if they went though the Star Trek transporter and didn't quite come back all the way. However, one of them is not responsible for entangling us in a never-ending assault on another nation.
I learned early in life most wars were bad news and even could be evil, having attended GG park Vietnam protests as a child, having one of their friends (who lived with us for a couple years) come back with a steel plate in his head, battling alcoholism and many emotional problems. Dubya spectacularly added something else to what I feel about war in general , and this war in particular : Stupidity.

Posted by: Natural State | March 21, 2008 at 06:58 PM

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