The Torture Election-Bush Has 2 Choices-'Cut A Deal With Candidate-OR- Eliminate Them' (Chris Floyd)

[kpete]

The Torture Election
Chris Floyd , Empire Burlesque


April 28, 2008

As the presidential horse race grows more frenzied and absurd -- Flag pins! Bowling! Obliteration!-- it is important to keep in mind what the election is really about: torture.

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Bush and his minions know that if the rule of law is ever restored -- even partially and imperfectly -- they will be rightly be subject to prosecution, imprisonment and possibly even execution.

And this is why torture is the core issue -- perhaps the only real issue -- in the presidential campaign. Iraq is not really an issue; whoever wins, the war will go on, in one form or another. Even under the so-called withdrawal plans of the "progressive" candidates, Americans will be killing and dying in Iraq for years to come. As for the economy, by their own admission none of the presidential aspirants will do anything more than tinker around the edges of the present rapacious system -- an unholy marriage of crony capitalism and corporate socialism that has devastated America's communities, left millions with harsher, diminished lives, corrupted civic society and degraded and homogenized American culture. For the elite factions that thrive on war profits and the brutal economic structure, none of the candidates represents a serious enough threat for any action -- beyond the usual lying, sabotage, vote-rigging and media manipulation to get their favorite into power, of course.

But torture is a different matter. Consider how many very powerful people -- and hundreds of their minions -- face very serious charges if the next president decides to apply the law. Will they really allow this to happen? Or even risk allowing this to happen?

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It would seem then that the Bush Administration has only two choices: cut a deal with the candidates on torture -- or eliminate them from the race, one way or another. It goes without saying that John McCain will do nothing but revel in the authoritarian powers brought into the open by Bush; certainly it is inconceivable that he would ever prosecute the instigators of the Bush torture regime. Thus the focus here falls on the winner of the Democratic nomination.

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[lonestarnot]

1. And I hope they are prosecuted!

[Disturbed]

2. Sen Clinton would do nothing about it.

She would say that America must move forward & not be distracted by the past.

[malaise]

3. Bill might demand some payback

That impeachment was bullshit. This one is about war crimes.

[dysfunctional press]

6. bill let the iran-contra perps walk scott-free...

and his wife would do exactly the same thing, for pretty much the same crewe.

[malaise]

9. That was pre-impeachment n/t

[dysfunctional press]

10. but it was also pretty much the same group of players that are behind things in iraq-istan today...

the impeachment was the work of interloping congressional zealots who have mostly faded away.

[Mojambo]

4. That is certainly the precedent set by previous presidents, including her husband.

I was quite happy to see Obama indicate he would break with it.

[99th_Monkey]

5. Obama has said he'll direct his new AG to investigate BushCo's high crimes

I'm sure it's just another one of those odd coincidences that the M$M turned against Obama about the
time he made that statement. :sarcasm:

GObama!!!

[Disturbed]

7. Bill, the adopted son of Poppa Bush & Babs would try to

get dubya indicted for War Crimes?

[99th_Monkey]

8. Personally, I wish the whole lot of them (Bushs & Clintons) would run off to Paraquay

and take Blackwater with them.

works for me, although I'd rather see Bush & Cheney indicted and charged with war crimes, at least
we'd be rid of the lot of them.