Et tu Obama?
April 16, 2009 by Dusty
Well, I couldn’t stay away from Countdown. Nope, and lemme tell ya..today was one helluva doozy. I learned all about the newly released torture memo’s (courtesy of TPM Muckraker) and how Obama has no interest what so evah in prosecuting those who tortured. I will look at the redacted memo’s shortly, but let me say this…
President Obama is going down the same road President Ford did, only Obama refuses to go after those who tortured. At least the underlings were prosecuted in the Nixon administration. No such luck with the Obama administration. So no one will be held accountable for torturing..no one.
KO’s Special Comment follows, as does his interview with John Dean on the subject. I am horrified that Obama wants to take this route.
But I am not surprised. President Obama has signaled he would lean this way, you just had to pay attention to hear it.
There are people out there that will be able to justify this newest fresh hell brought to us by President Obama..but I am not one of them. I find Obama’s decision unconscionable and wrong on many levels. I salute him for releasing the memo’s, and allowing us to see into the black hearts of the Bush Administration.
But I damn him and curse him for wanting to walk away from doing the right thing.
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Sorry, I’m with Obama on this issue and I trust his judgment.
And you think it’s ok to just let it all go as water under the bridge? Could you expound on why you agree with him on this? I am curious Robb..really, I want to know what and why people agree with him on this. Not being a smartass here.
From McClatchy:
Obama’s exemption also appears to contradict a prime tenet of the Nuremberg prosecutions of former top Nazis after World War II. The Nuremberg Principle IV says: “The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/66339.html
I understand the outrage of those that want a full-blown and lengthy investigation that ultimately leads to Bush doing hard time. Hey, if it was up to me, Nixon would have been chained to a dungeon wall, upside-down until he choked on a cockroach. However, since I’m not in charge, I’ll have to trust Obama to make the tough decisions. If he thinks it’s bad for the country to drag us through Nuremberg II, and since he’s privy to the top secret juicy stuff, he gets to make the call. My gut feeling, along with my extreme Bush fatigue, tell me he’s doing the right thing.
Once again, I apologize to those that aren’t going to get their way this time, even if their cause is just.
But I never get my way damn it!!!!!
Thanks Robb..I get the Bush Fatigue syndrome..I really do. I just feel that no prosecution means it could all happen again down the road.
Now, go over to my blog and slap Steve, my resident rightwing nutter around for me will ya?
OK, I went over there, but now I remember why I don’t. Something about that blog and your sports one just hammers the hell out of Internet Explorer. I know that gives you some small satisfaction, but my work requires that I live in a Bill Gates world.
Ta ta while I reboot and hopefully dislodge the kludge…