Put on your seat belts. It will be a bumpy ride as the next president covers up Bush's crimes

[Stinky The Clown]

Maybe its just me.

Maybe not.

The next president, no matter which of the three still in the race, will sweep under the rug all the crimes of the Bush administration. They will whistle past the graveyard. They will ignore.

Bush will get away with everything.

He will be able to claim the most criminal-free administration in history.

Because the next president will cover for him. The day they are elected, they are members of the club.

You, on the other hand, don't fucking matter.

[laylah]

1. Please oh please

tell me you haven't had your coffee yet this morning:P All joking aside, I am afraid you are right, as you often are. None of the bastards that have helped to run this country into the ground, will be held accountable. However, one can hope the International community will get them sooner rather than later.

[HereSince1628]

2. Is this ANOTHER bitterness thread??????????

:rofl:

[tekisui]

3. Then we look to the International Community.

These War Criminals should not sleep one night in comfort. If they have to be dragged in on their 80th or 90th birthday--they must be held accountable.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. True.

:argh:

[Echo In Light]

5. "America has ONE political party with TWO right wings." - Gore Vidal

[MichiganVote]

6. True. So very, very, true.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. Ford covered for Nixon with his pardon and Clinton never held Papa Bush accountable for his

crimes, and I don't expect anything different from the new President.

I look to the Hague, but that will probably never happen either....

[Jackpine Radical]

8. I have difficulty seeing any of the three candidates doing anything

to hold the Bush people to account. I do hope that new leadership can steer us onto a very different path. These are times much worse overall than 1929, the last time a combination of factors forced a dramatic leftward shift in our direction. We have simultaneous and interconnected problems with energy, the environment, the economy, our infrastructure, our place in the world, the war, etc. and, as much as I would like to see Bushco go to the Hague, I don't want us to be all distracted about court-martialling the last captain while the ship stays on course into the icebergs.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. I'm sorry but I can't agree with you and turn a blind eye to move forward. Why can't both be done at

the same time? Are we that incapable?

As long as all these crimes committed are allowed to go unpunished, it will continue and in turn continue to permeate, with its insidious energy, every part of our culture and personal lives.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. "For the good of the Nation"

That will be the reasoning. Guaranteed.
Besides, it's an easy cop out.

[hootinholler]

10. Dang, I really wanted to hear shrub claim well we had an election

That was the accountability moment.

AFAIK, there was only one candidate who seriously would have prosecuted the crimes.

-Hoot

[lonestarnot]

11. I hope that you are wrong.

[B Calm]

12. Someone has to make a tough decision on how we are going to pay for the Iraq War.

Of course it won't be popular, but it needs to be done! Every time a republican gets in office, they screw up everything. Then when people have enough, they elect a grown-up and put a democrat in office because they are the only ones with balls to do what's necessary to clean up the republican mess. Then the republicans sit on their big fat pimply hemorrhoid asses and point their bony shit faced fingers at the totally innocent Democrats.

[ThomWV]

13. The question must be asked of each candidate - what will you do about past illegality?

[Echo In Light]

14. No way, no how that question will be raised, directly or otherwise. If so, spin & dodge nth degree

[earth mom]

16. They will protect *. All 3 senators-Obama, Clinton & McCain have ALREADY been doing so in Congress.

That's why it just blows my mind that there are so many on DU that refuse to see the difference in ALL THREE OF EM! :wtf:

HOPE = HYPE = LIE.

[pleah]

17. I think you are right on this one.

I thought so when the other candidates were told to get the hell out of the race. I also think the election was decided a long time ago. We have no proof the elections are legit any more.