Four Years And The Suspects Are Still At Large? Bob Cesca

[Demeter]

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Four Years And The Suspects Are Still At Large?

There ought to be some kind of American federal criminal statute for fabricating the reasons for war, as well as completely mismanaging the same war -- a war which has produced nearly 30,000 American casualties -- then brazenly resisting honorable and proven exit strategies while lying about the progress of the war when it's clear that the cause is lost....It seems to me as if an activity in which human beings can be killed on a large scale ought to bear criminal consequences if the process is handled ineptly.

If an American citizen is caught cheating on their taxes, they're fined and imprisoned; if an American citizen races up to a yellow light and it turns red just as they're passing under it, they're photographed without their permission and fined; if an American citizen talks about farting or nipples on the radio, they can be fined $325,000 by your federal government. Holy hell, it's a federal offense to make a copy of a DVD or CD, whether you plan to sell it or not!....If there can exist a civil authority which is charged with the duty of tapping our phones, reading our mail, tracking the content of our internet activity and then disappearing us based on "evidence" found in these illegal searches and seizures -- AND a large percentage of Americans support this -- then why can't their be an American legal penalty against war crimes? We have the will to endorse criminal penalties of all sorts including a crime against showing a partially obscured human nipple on television, but the political and social will to treat the extreme mismanagement of a war and the resulting loss of 28,000 American casualties isn't within our law enforcement priorities?

It's time for Congress to step up. If Senator Clinton, for example, wants to prove her quality then she ought to drop the ridiculous video game violence crusade and introduce a law making it illegal to engage in certain forms of real life violence... Congress should be tasked with the duty of making this and similar wars illegal by passing a bill forming a wholly non-partisan branch of law enforcement responsible for arresting leaders who commit war crimes like the ones listed at the top of this article. We could call it the War Crimes Commission or WCC for short.

How about we start with a fine equal to the FCC fine for broadcast indecency? Every elected or politically appointed official found partly or mostly responsible for botching the war must pay $325,000 for each and every time they lied about the reasons for- or progress of the war. That might not seem like a lot to rich guys with rich guy pinkish-hued skin like Vice President Cheney, but it adds up, and, all idealism aside, it's a start. Plus, with the WCC in place, the Democrats in Congress aren't faced with the scary political notion of putting together impeachment proceedings (however effective and justified impeachment might be). For the really brutal offenders, I think a stay in the gen-pop at Guantanamo might be appropriate, no?... it's been four years in Iraq and not a one of the wackaloons responsible for Iraq have faced the legal consequences of their actions, simply because for some insanely unjustifiable reason, their actions continue to remain perfectly legal, while you and I can be arrested -- maybe even disappeared for life -- for far less serious offenses.