Petition to investigate Bush and Cheney for war crimes

[proud2BlibKansan]

To: President Obama

We must go after Bush and Cheney for 1. Lying to the American people for the purposes of engaging this country in an act of illegaly invading a sovereign nation. 2.Being wholly complict in outing a CIA agent. 3. Authorizing warrantless wiretapes. And 4. Authorizing torture. Anything less than investigation and prosecution will be an embarrassment to this country... The reason that you don't torture is to create an international standard of human rights wherein torture is illegal. Many more of our enemies will use torture on us in the future if we lead an international consensus that says it's ok and won't be prosecuted. There is no question that the people who committed torture -- people who killed detainees, for example, as well as those who physically assaulted them -- need to be prosecuted and punished. Period. There is no alternative. I hate to be absolutist, but if we want torture to take place in the future, we should ignore the past. If we want to prevent torture, we should deal with the past so we don't repeat it... We can not tolerate the rape of the people's government and injustice that the Bush Admin has incurred. The people demand accountibility and a sign to others that greed and criminality WILL NOT be allowed to shape America or the world! Investigations and prosecutions MUST be part of OUR MOVING FORWARD! There can be no peace and now freedom until the war criminals Bush and Cheney are in prison.

Sincerely,


http://www.petitiononline.com/856798/petition.html

[Mira]

1. You said it, and you said it well, and I kick and recommend

[EFerrari]

2. Last time I listened to Horton, he made it sound as if it was US law

that, should there be evidence of torture, a prosecution must be mounted. He said that not prosecuting in that case is a violation of the torture convention.

[Bonobo]

3. Done. k/r

[bobthedrummer]

4. K&R

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I was just getting ready to PM you with this link

:hi:

[stillcool]

5. Done!

[Octafish]

7. Gitmo is too good for them.

Same for hell.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. I was hoping for Leavenworth

It's close by and I can easily go visit. Plus the terrorists will probably be there :)

[Senator]

9. K&R

[woodwrite]

10. You're absolutely right, however......

The problem of accountability, where much-deserved indictments, investigations, prosecutions and sentencing of Bush administration criminals are concerned, in fact becomes a totally different problem when it gets ignored and tossed aside. Who's doing the ignoring and tossing? Is it the same problem after it gets pushed aside? If you call the cops to report a bank robbery/murder and the cops say, "Hey, chill out. We're busy down here, ok? Let bygones be bygones." .... well, doesn't the issue become somewhat greater than a "mere" bank robbery/murder? And what do you do then, hmm?

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. You sign the petition and hope for the best

That's what you do.

[madokie]

12. I agree wholeheartedly

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Knew you would!

:hi:

[Gregorian]

14. Crap! It posted my phone number and address.

But I will sign every one of these I find.

[snot]

15. If you want to investigate or prosecute, PLS HELP with this initial hurdle:

Just got the following from The Pen. Unfortunately, critical links on their "Action Page" -- to Conyers' rec. and Cheney's gloat -- seem to have been taken down. Nonetheless, I've seen other info about this before, and I think it's critical. Please DO take action at the page link below; and if anyone can supply alternative sources for the dead-end links, pls do!

"One of the most important recommendations by John Conyers in his 487
page recent report "Reining In The Imperial Presidency" was to extend
the statute of limitations on the crimes of Bush and Cheney, to allow
a fair opportunity for them to be actually investigated by a real
prosecutor. Of course the Justice Department was entirely derelict in
enforcing the law as to them while they were still in office. To
fully preserve and protect the rule of law, the statute of
limitations must be extended now.

"And sure enough, just the other day Cheney was out there gloating
about how the statute of limitations was expiring on some of their
most egregious offenses. For example, the midnight putsch to
institute a regime of illegal wiretapping occurred in early March of
2004, not quite 5 years ago."

Extend Statute of Limitations Action Page:

http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum933.php

And pls K&R this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5010158&mesg_id=5010158

[BunkerHill24]

16. Signed, Sealed and Sent

"123 Signatures Total" so far.

Please sign the petition.

[keepthemhonest]

17. signed thanks

[keepthemhonest]

18. I can't believe there are so few

so far.I hope it is because peopel jst did not seen this yet.