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In reply to the discussion: Forgive me if I roll my eyes at your precious outrage about torture. [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)How many times do I have to tell you people that political interference in the Justice Department by the White House is an impeachable offense? Pursuing impeachable offenses by the last occupants of the Oval Office is not an excuse for committing them now.
Eric Holder could indeed have pursued prosecution in 2009, but you know damn well not "easily." The entire GOP and a goodly portion of Democratic leaders would have fought tooth-and-nail, withholding funds, launching counter-investigations into the DOJ, and the entire media would have spewed 24/7 violent fascist propaganda calling for civil war and acts of terrorism, which undoubtedly would have happened. Whatever you wanted, most Obama voters didn't sign up for that kind of chaos and confrontation.
Not one single piece of legislation passed by this administration 2009-2010 would have passed in that kind of political climate. And you make abundantly clear that you would have probably blamed Obama for that too. If Holder were prosecuting at the time, and the result was political deadlock two years early, you would have ignored that he was doing what you wanted and just focused on some other irritant.
The only way to manage war crimes prosecutions is to politically isolate the targets first, and your - frankly - lies trying to mindfuck people into seeing the Obama administration as complicit in Bush's crimes isn't helping.