Give your best reason/argument for investigating Bush Administration "activities."

[ColbertWatcher]

For me, I'd like to have all the details be known.

I'd like to see the Federalist Society be marginalized like the KKK.

Why do you think investigations into the machinations of the Bush Administration should begin?

[backscatter712]

1. To set a precedent to ensure that those who order torture, even from the White House, go to prison.

If we let it slide, there's a serious danger that the next time the White House is occupied by an assclown, they'll look at the legal precedents, believe nothing will happen to them, and they'll torture again. Next time, it will probably be even worse - maybe torturing American citizens, extending torture to thousands or millions of people, not just a few terrorists on TV.

It is VITALLY important that we set a precedent that says "If you order torture, you will go to prison!"

[BlooInBloo]

2. Future deterrent value.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. To stop it from happening again ....... and to tell the world ........

....... we have learned from this and are again ready to rejoin the world community.

[vixengrl]

13. Amen--

The biggest problem with putting it behind us is that people get lax, people forget. We can't have some disaster 25, 50, 100 years from now that incites another group of short-sighted and morally-challenged people to do the same. There has to be a lesson, and it has to be powerful enough that people do remember. For years, we've heard "freedom isn't free."

The answer has always been "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." It's not about always fighting enemies, but fighting homegrown tyrants.

[BeFree]

4. Kids

They need to know that even if you make it to the top and you do bad things, you will suffer the consequences. If Bushco skates, they will get the wrong impression.

[Xipe Totec]

5. Rule of Law n/t

[Fuzz]

12. Winner

[ProgressIn2008]

6. Either we believe in the rule or law or we don't. INDEPENDENT investigation is needed to prove it

Time or put up or shut up. Are we nation of laws? Or are we not?

No one, no matter how rich and powerful, should be above the law.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Kick for more opinions. n/t

[DCKit]

8. Restoration and validation of the Constitution.

Then wail them with it.

[csziggy]

9. To keep it from happening again - we let Noxin, Raygun, & GHWB off the hook

As well as their flunkies. And each time the crimes just kept escalating to the point I barely recognize the country I knew as a child. I want my country and my freedoms back.

[deminks]

10. You can't know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

And I think we have been in some very dark places.

[ddeclue]

11. How about: "THEY BROKE THE LAW!"

:shrug:

Just askin'

[gratuitous]

14. Because if we don't, someone else will

Now, it might be a nice, orderly tribunal that respects the rule of law and observes identifiable rules of evidence and procedure. But more likely, it will be a self-appointed ad hoc group that isn't going to be too concerned about separating the guilty from the innocent, and they'll just exact revenge and blanket reprisals against all of America. Now, if you don't mind you or your loved ones (or even people you despise who had nothing to do with the Bush administration crimes) being the victims of a terrorist attack launched in retaliation for the torture or for some other crime we may not even know about, then let 'em off the hook. But if you value our society, we need to show the world that it can clean up after itself.

[omega minimo]

15. Because Impeachment was OFF THE TABLE.

[dysfunctional press]

16. because it's not like they have anything better to do with their time...

or anything else on their plates that directly affects the future & immediate financial/medical well-being of each and every citizen, as well as the planet itself.

when the ship is sinking, you don't stop to discipline the crew that caused it.
that comes later.
hopefully.