The Balanced Hand of Justice–or the Power of Rich War Criminals–Which Shall Judge War Criminals George Bush and Richard Cheney?
By Michael O’McCarthy
The question is: which of the Presidential candidates, Obama or McCain, will use the hand of balanced justice to send George Bush, Dick Cheney et al to the War Crimes’ bar of justice? Or will they use the same slippery-handed maneuver as employed by Gerald Ford in pardoning war criminal # 1 Richard Milhouse Nixon? And as impeachment becomes more and more the conversation and passion of the day the next question is: when will the press begin to ask both the candidates this question?
Will Obama lend himself to conventional law and order and support their prosecution should they be indicted in the US or before an international war crimes tribunal?
That depends on what he means by “change.” Change means change and allowing that kind of corrupt, illegal and unethical politics as inaugural message to our citizens is not change. It is the age-old politics of the super rich “good ole buddies” club.
But then, how badly will Obama need the members of the new elitist, predatory, managerial class in-dept to=2 0the Bush-Cheney cabal? And what message of the “new” America would this send to a world racked by “terror” when it is clear that the US government under Bush-Cheney committed war crimes – terror, throughout the world and at home?
Then of course what of McCain? He runs as an All-American War Hero for his participation in the US’s war against South East Asia. He certainly asserts his heroic resistance to and systematic victim of torture at the hands of North Vietnamese officials. That he was at times tortured has been documented; that he participated in proscribed behavior for POW’s is also documented.
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