Air America Poll: 90% Want Bush Crimes Investigation

[zonmoy]

Air America conducted a poll that asked a question raised by Time Magazine's Joe Klein: "Should Obama pardon George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Dick Cheney?" The idea: a pardon would brand them for crimes without the agony of a trial.

Air American's aren't buying the Klein solution. They want the whole lot thrown in jail. No trial necessary! A whopping 90% of our 9000 respondents want to see Bush and Company pay for their crimes with either hard time in the pokey or hard time in the pokey after enhanced interrogation techniques. (Shocking!)

In an interview last year with Philadelphia Daily News reporter Will Bunch, Barack Obama said something that seemed to signal the presidential hopeful might prosecute George W. Bush and his staff for crimes committed during the eight-year death march also known as the 43rd presidency of the United States of America.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/beau-friedlander/air-america-poll-90-want_b_169047.html

[FriendlyReminder]

1. What the heck's the matter with the other 10%

I would expect no less than 100% from us Air America listeners.

[YOY]

2. Perhaps they never leave their basements or change the channel from Rush?

That's beyond the usual 27% of backwash.

[meeloo]

3. As much as I hated the Bush adminitration....,

blankedly prosecuting an entire former administration for whatever crime is a terrible precedent

[KansDem]

4. Well, if the entire former administration is culpable for said crimes...

Why not prosecute?

[tama]

6. Well

Beginning from the fact that every member of US congress that voted for the War resolution and then for funding of the illegal war of aggression (plus torture laws, spy laws, all the unconstitutional shit that Congress fully participated in) is a war criminal, usurper and a general scumbag, who should not be prosecuted? And not ending with the fact that "I was just following orders" is no excuse for illegal and unethical behaviour... who should not be prosecuted?

Perhaps you begin to see where the real problem is - the establishment as whole (and Obama administration certainly not outside the establishment but very much part of it) is collectively quilty as hell, with only few exceptions like Dennis etc. who have been consistent in their opposition to the crime against humanity and nature that has been going on and can honestly plead not guilty.

The real problem is that it is not only the other party that are scumbags and criminals, but the whole establishment as whole, Dems included. There is no honest way out of the vortex but to get rid of all of them and each and everybody amending their own ways. Nothing changed in Latin America before people decided to "get rid of all of them".

Problem not so different from what post-apartheid South-Africa faced. Instead of putting all the guilty ones in jail, they realized that prison system could not handle the amount of collective guilt, they chose process called "Truth commission".

[zonmoy]

7. Just the problem I am seeing.

our nation has become so rotten that I fear that if there is such a thing as a good god then we will suffer a fate that will make sodom and Gomorrah's fate seem like a slap on the wrist. And not over homosexuality but our treatment of outsiders and anybody that isnt a servant of our corporate and other evil masters.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

5. So, who do you think should be prosecuted?

Or should everyone in Bush's administration get a pass because a few too many might be charged with wrongdoing? The principle, "'Tis better to let a guilty man go than to convict an innocent man," seems a little weak when the guilt of the man -- Cheney, Bush and Rumsfeld -- has been publicly admitted by the parties involved. Should we not prosecute them because some of their lieutenants may also be charged? If I recall, "I was just following orders" didn't fly at the Nuremberg trials.

"What we permit, we commit." I think that best sums up the current situation. Obama can stand for the rule of law or he can accept responsibility for the host of illegalities committed by Bush, et. al. I don't see how there's another viable choice. A "Truth Commission" would be a joke, a whitewash job which would exceed he 9-11 report, which wasn't really an investigation into the events surrounding 9-l1 but how to blame someone (the amorphous "intelligence community") other than the Bush Administration for the tragedy. We still haven't had a full investigation into that event.

Do laws no longer matter? If not, it's time I learn to shoot a gun and stockpile some ammo.

[Stinger2]

8. Rove ignores House Judiciary Committee subpoena.

 
Pursuant to a subpoena issued earlier this month, Karl Rove
was due to appear for a hearing before the House Judiciary
Committee today. But as CongressMatters reports, despite being
“expected” to appear this time, Rove was a no show. Contacted
by ThinkProgress, the House Judiciary Committee confirmed the
report of Rove’s absence. Days before leaving office, “Bush’s
White House counsel, Fred Fielding, sent letters to Rove,
Miers, and Bolten, instructing them to continue to ignore
congressional demands for information about anything they did
while at the While House.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/23/rove-hjc/

I think Rove should be water boarded to fess up!

[bobthedrummer]

9. Nope. The terrible precedent of not prosecuting is responsible for the criminal Bush/Cheney epoch.

Welcome to DU, meeloo.
Look at what the unprosecuted Iran-Contra gang accomplished with the PNAC crew...