Sound Analysis Came Too Late For Bush & Co.

[Gman]

Sound Analysis Came Too Late For Bush & Co.

By EUGENE ROBINSON | Posted Monday, December 22, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Understanding isn't the same as forgiving. The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand why they acted with such contempt for our Constitution and our values — but also reinforce my confident belief, and my fervent hope, that history will throw the book at them.

The basic argument that they're making deserves to be taken seriously. I don't think either man would object to my summing it up in one sentence: We did what we did to keep America safe.

That terse formulation of the Bush-Cheney apologia leaves out important details. Cheney came into office with preconceived ideas about restoring executive branch powers and prerogatives that he believed had been lost after Vietnam and Watergate; Bush either shared Cheney's views or was willing to go along.
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In an interview with Martha Raddatz of ABC News earlier this month, Bush claimed credit for vanquishing al-Qaida's forces in Iraq. When Raddatz pointed out that there were no al-Qaida forces in Iraq until after the U.S. invasion, the president answered, "Yeah, that's right. So what?"

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They all need to be prosecuted. If they get pardoned or if the new DOJ elects not to prosecute, then they should be tried in the ICC.

[supernova]

1. I hope they're hunted down like the dogs they are

in the coming years and brought before Judges and juries.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Justice sometimes find strange ways to get her Jollies.....OJ found this out 2 weeks ago

Perhaps in due time...bush and cheney will get theirs too

[Miss Authoritiva]

3. No... No... No

Absolutely not. The basic argument that Bush and Cheney are making does not deserve to be taken seriously. It's one thing to understand what they're saying, but it's quite another to give their basic argument any credence.

By temperament and intellect, neither Bush nor Cheney should have ever been allowed near the White House (unless wearing visitor passes).