What do you think should happen?

On another thread we were discussing who should be held accountable for the crimes committed by the current administration.

Some suggested the GOP be disbanded, others would like to see all of them jailed--not just the neocons--even the people who voted for them!

I suggested a "truth" commission similar to what was done in Rwanda after the genocide (see links at the bottom). During my quick jaunt through Wikip*dia, I discovered that http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/006992.php">Talking Points Memo had already suggested it:

Now I ask the great minds of DU: what should be done to the following groups of people for their involvement in the great disaster that was the Reagan Revolution?

1. The elected officials
2. appointed (non-elected) government officials
3. the GOP
4. officers in the party
5. people who self-identify or who voted GOP

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LINKS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_Rwanda">International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rettig_Report">The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Report (Chile)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials">The Nuremberg Trials.

I believe they should remain in the US -- but, I would accept a trial in Iraq too... then, we could see which penalty fits best.

and money laundering, among other things I think we can all come up with. That means the leaders of state parties as well as the vipers in the RNC who changed a political party into an interstate racketeering organization to install an illegal president and grab enough power to prop him up.

So to that extent, the party needs to be prosecuted.

However, diehard Reaganites in the general population can be handled by laughter and shaming.

Sentenced to 15 years of laughter, shaming and daily pantsing!

that voted them into office the first time, and then again four years later. Without those votes from those voters, those people would have never administered the U.S. Government.

The could read the difference between Carter and Reagan on the ballot. They chose Reagan, twice.

then for the most part every thing else will take care of themselves

Congressional hearings?

time for war. that one for starters but my greatest wish is to see him and Cheney in the perp box at the Hague.

Would they be convicted for voting the first time, but not the second? What if they didn't the first time, but did the second and reget their vote? What if they voted both times, like a few of my family members, and regret it.

The German people weren't tried for voting Hitler in so why should those folks who voted bush into office be tried?

Very good point.

until after the 2004 election. The Schaivo fiasco and Katrina botch were both in 2005, the latter being the real tipping point that sent people fleeing from the GOP camp. Since then, he hasn't done a damned thing right and we're stuck in 2 unwinnable wars with collapsing economy and infrastructure and no revenue to repair either.

He fooled a lot of people, just like Reagan did. Since he wasn't nearly as likeable as the polished pitchman Reagan, it's caught up with him and his rotten party.

It just didn't catch up to them soon enough.

impeachment proceedings the day that bastard Bush admitted there were no WMD's in Iran!