Posted by Beau Friedlander, Air America Media at 12:10 PM on February 23, 2009.
Sign a petition to show Obama that an investigation of possible crimes committed by the Bush administration is the will of the nation.
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. It was one of the many moments that whipped up my own private Obama fervor. But did he say what I thought he said? Not really.
"I would want to find out directly from my attorney general--having pursued, having looked at what's out there right now--are there possibilities of genuine crimes as opposed to really bad policies."
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Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has a petition to show Obama that an investigation of possible crimes committed by the Bush administration is the will of the nation. You can sign it here.
http://ga3.org/campaign/btcpetition?qp_source=btc_hp~~~continued
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/128423/incredible_new_poll%3A_90%25_want_bush_crimes_investigation_/