History will never absolve Bush and Cheney

Cheney's book is crap and that Bush interview last night was atrocious

to B&N tomorrow to cash in on gift certs. I will do my duty if time and circumstances allow...

Can't wait to see the rearranged shelves with that revisionist bullshit!
The Dick is a despicable human being. :puke:

So I have supreme confidence that history will rehabilitate them, just as it rehabilitated Hoover, Nixon, and Reagan.

no ifs, mo buts

no more. no less. sickening.

petition (or something) earlier today, and I was glad to see it. Any continued action is good to draw attention to the fact they should be tried for crimes against humanity.

"absolution" than they deserved. nt

They were never prosecuted for their crimes. All the history books will show, if anything, will be that some people called waterboarding torture and some people disagreed....In America, torture has been reduced to little more than a matter of opinion.

German officials being hanged at Nuremberg. And he has done so loudly and repeatedly. There doesn't even need to be a trial. String 'im up now.

Still...they aren't being prosecuted...and as long as they don't get prosecuted, "history" will be a matter of opinion..thanks to people promoting the warped thinking that torture is just a case of "policy differences"...and those that pretend that it is a matter of opinion on whether or not waterboarding is torture....and, not to forget, the lack of prosecutions.


All that combined has reduced war crimes to a matter of opinion (in America, anyway). US Newspapers still call torture "enhanced interrogation techniques" or "harsh" interrogation techniques..yet they call the exact same actions torture, when committed by other countries or individuals who are not American.

"History" (books used in K-12 will say) - "Critics called it torture" or "Some called it torture" or "Viewed by other nations as torture".

Now, some books written will call it torture (rightfully) and some books won't....again, making it seem like it was nothing more than a matter of opinion.


Yes, Cheney is a war criminal. So is Bush. So are many in the CIA, the DoD, the Bush cabinet, the Bush DOJ.....yet without America telling the truth...that YES - the US government did commit war crimes... that YES, the US government did torture people...and without prosecuting those war crimes.... the "history" of those war crimes will be seen as they said/we said.

One side will say it's only the opinion of people who hate Bush...the other side will point to the fact that Bush/Cheney admitted to torturing people. Then one side will say waterboarding isn't torture...the other side will (rightly) claim it is...then we'll hear how the DOJ said torture was now "legal" and done in "good faith"...and on and on...just as it was during the Bush years....the same shit will be repeated over and over again...all because the US lacks the courage to prosecute its own war criminals, because the US lies about its war crimes...because all too many people are despicable enough to just let the issue go.