what will THE LAW do about cheney/rice/rumsfeld/ashcroft TORTURE PROGRAM?

[spanone]

i fear they may get away with it.....

congress must do it's duty

otherwise, law as we've known it, is deceased imho

[mcctatas]

1. Oh I'm sure they will act immediately with moral outrage to

hold the war criminals accountable and...........oh fuck it, they'll do the same nothing they always do!

[spanone]

2. and why isn't this story frontpage on nytimes, wapo, latimes, etc ?????

we're talking FUCKING WAR CRIMES HERE

[gateley]

4. We need to (sigh, again)

contact our reps AND Obama and Clinton and dangle the words "support, vote" in front of them.

I always threaten them with my vote. I'm sure Libby Dole is going -- "let me guess, I've lost gateley's vote AGAIN".

I honestly don't know of any other power we wield -- open to suggestions, though!

[bdamomma]

23. we need to yell this out, these are criminals they are war criminals

they are letting these thugs get away with murder, literally, I wish those fools on the hill would wake the eff up, this is our country going down the drain cause of these neo cons.

[Stuart G]

19. Hard to know.........today is the first day that this is getting full national coverage. It ..

took at least 2 days to get this out. It is everywhere now. Torture is the issue. Hard to know what the entire nation will think. I am not sure that many people care much. We do, but many care about 4 dollar gas more.

[Echo In Light]

20. If M$M pimps it, it'll be replete with apologist spin to the nth degree

[EFerrari]

22. We have four dollar (nearly five here) because the torture president

was more interested in bombing a country that had never hurt us and in torturing goat herders and journalists than in our economy.

[Syrinx]

3. I think an Obama admin might prosecute

Otherwise, they walk.

[spanone]

5. where is the international outrage? is there none in the whole world??? Pope? anyfuckingone?

[bdamomma]

24. the international community is letting us stew in our own juices.

we are the only ones who could and can control this situation.

[info being]

35. Nobody is surprised

[Warpy]

6. Bury it and pretend it never happened

Don't believe it? Just watch.

Unfortunately, much of the damage has been done. Throwing these bastards into prison over it would help to start getting our reputation back, but that reputation was built over a century. It's always easier and quicker to destroy a reputation than it is to build one, or build it back.

We can cry out for justice but we are not likely to see it.

[spanone]

8. i hope we're a better nation than that......i hope

[BOHICA06]

7. They are just glad ...

..they didn't have to make the call. They'll sound furious, but secretly know they would have made the same decision.

[Golden Raisin]

9. Law? LAW? We no longer have laws.

We have signing statements informing us which "laws" or parts of laws these thugs will deign to adhere to (or not). And don't look to Congress to do anything. Oh, they might hold a few more toothless hearings which accomplish exactly nothing.

[KatyMan]

10. Why do you hate 'merca?

Jeez, these things had to be done so that we could fight them over there instead of over here. Wake up, lieberal!

:sarcasm:

[madokie]

11. When all the dust settles these traitors will be in chains

sometimes the wheels of justice turns slowly, but turn they do.

[Echo In Light]

13. In Bushco's case, corruption is so vast, so many complicit on varying levels...

I wouldn't hold my breath on that one ... brushed aside in the name of National $ecurity.

[madokie]

14. In their dreams only do they walk free

I'm not the only person who is fed up with all this lying.

[Echo In Light]

16. Scores have been fed up since the 2000 coup, yet what's come of it? ZERO

[madokie]

17. I plead to not give up

My spending 15 months in a hell hole is where I get my strength to hang in there, so to say. I don't get out much but when I do I am hearing a lot of talk about how illegal all this is, about impeachment and the likes. By giving up we give in, something I won't be doing.

[Echo In Light]

18. Depends on which action one takes as a vehicle for "not giving up."

At heart I agree with you 110% ... however, pessimism of the intellect, and optimism of the will.

[madokie]

21. I understand :-)

[bdamomma]

25. me either, I will not give up either.

I find these thugs so insulting to the American people not all of us are ignorant to the true facts of what's been happening. This situation we find ourselves in can be controlled if we as a people come to terms with the idea of them against us, this is a class/ideological war, I really believe that. They will not get away with it, even those nazis who committed war crimes got theirs in the end, I can see that happening with these thugs.

[madokie]

26. I think so

I more or less cut my political teeth during the late 60s early 70s, protesting our illegal war and nuclear energy and watching watergate hearings on tv so I know, because I have seen it happen, as to what can be. I'm in a lot of ways like Charlton Heston in that they'll have to pry this constitution from my cold dead hands if they want mine. It frustrates me that so many are ready to throw their hands in the air and run screaming. I just wasn't wired that way. America is beautiful and will one day soon be rightous again, metaphorically speaking that is. And when she is I will be smiling that big assed okie smile I have been known to do because I'll feel good about not doubting her to start with, yes, when she was down and needed all the help she could get we were there and always will be. :-)
After all America is my true love, not my one and only mind you but true love nevertheless
Yes we will be walking together to a better tomorrow for our children, maybe not hand in hand but where it counts most, in spirit.
America will be Great once again and I promise that.

[bdamomma]

28. brings me too, if America was our child and needed help

would we walk away???

[Perry Logan]

12. If the law don't get 'em, the karma will.

[Tesha]

15. Nothing.

American law will do nothing about any of this
(except maybe punish a few handy peons).

Tesha

[leftofthedial]

27. there still is law

it just doesn't apply to the powerful

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

29. ACLU is calling for Special Counsel

My donations at work.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/34845prs20080410.html

This was reported on NPR this morning - another organization I support financially

[bbgrunt]

32. thank heavens for the ACLU. It is OUR shadow gov't.

[yodermon]

30. Will Obama's justice department prosecute? n/t

[spanone]

31. i'd like to know why hearings aren't being held TODAY.

[Wizard777]

34. It's Business as usual in the United States of Atrocity.

Wait until you see the new ovens in the death camps. 'Cause it's only evil when Hitler does it.

[guitar man]

33. Oh, they're all in trouble allright

I'm sure they are all going to get a strongly worded letter over this, that will teach them....:(

[Flying Dream Blues]

36. And Bush signed the memo authorizing it, don't forget him...(or Poland!) nt

[Crabby Appleton]

37. Absolutely nothing. nt

[Disturbed]

38. The Busholini Gang will be praised for protecting America

against Terrorists.

[concerned canadian]

39. there will be a Changing of the Guard

Heads will roll when the American people at long last wake up to the truth of what this present gov has been up to.

Teason is no longer punishable by death in America, is it?

George Bush says he believes in the God of the Bible. If that's true, he must be feeling really scared right now.