tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post53757955413438321..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Cheney Admits to Being War CriminalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-41793156259884422572010-05-04T17:58:12.410-07:002010-05-04T17:58:12.410-07:00Why is every American afraid of Cheney?Why is every American afraid of Cheney?Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-50253502560179309032010-05-04T15:05:47.691-07:002010-05-04T15:05:47.691-07:00Americans are brain washed and have lost their com...Americans are brain washed and have lost their common sense about health care,out of control capitalism and looking after their poor. Unless they change they will self destruct as a nation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-4083175253876191062010-02-22T09:16:26.026-08:002010-02-22T09:16:26.026-08:00The attitude of "moving on" or "mov...The attitude of "moving on" or "moving forward" without any consequences is just plain wrong. When citizens commit crimes, there's no moving forward until they've done time. But for those in D.C., they get away with whatever crimes they commit. So no on moving forward until justice is served. I'm thinking 20 to life for Cheney! Time to start building for profit prisons to house all those breaking the laws of this land for their lust and greed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-9404087199503058012010-02-17T16:43:39.758-08:002010-02-17T16:43:39.758-08:00http://jonathanturley.org/
For a review of this t...http://jonathanturley.org/<br /><br />For a review of this topic that is not histrionic, check this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-39643483500217951732010-02-17T16:35:59.399-08:002010-02-17T16:35:59.399-08:00Your blog isn't interesting or unique enough t...Your blog isn't interesting or unique enough to read, make a comment as a favor to you, so you'll make a few pennies, and then have the comment censored. <br /><br />How many readers and comments would you guess you lose with this policy? As I won't read the response, leave the commentary and your response for others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-17874603768173765992010-02-17T16:30:52.587-08:002010-02-17T16:30:52.587-08:00Cheney will converse with you about approval. Oba...Cheney will converse with you about approval. Obama, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-24874045131115237102010-02-17T16:29:10.905-08:002010-02-17T16:29:10.905-08:00Isn't the real issue with Cheney's having ...Isn't the real issue with Cheney's having the audacity to tout torture, without fear of repercussion, that Obama has stated he is not going to pursue the use of torture by the US, for national security reasons?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-52739288432286479852010-02-17T13:24:26.422-08:002010-02-17T13:24:26.422-08:00Et tu, Washington?
Aren't there enough fake h...Et tu, Washington?<br /><br />Aren't there enough fake headlines around in the MSM, already? Wishful thinking will not get Cheney before the ICC, hard work and determination will.<br /><br />I also note the commenter above giving himself away with the 'time to move on' schtick - that's such a blunt tool, 2010-wise...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-59421263286939208432010-02-17T13:16:28.989-08:002010-02-17T13:16:28.989-08:00The legal defense as I understand it is that any l...The legal defense as I understand it is that any law that would prevent the President or his administration from performing the duty of ensuring national security simply does not apply. Ensuring national security is a constitutionally derived power and no other law may contradict that. The assumption is that because the President is the Commander in Chief he is vested with the ultimate responsibility for the safety of the country. We will call that the Yoo defense.<br /><br />The interesting thing about the Yoo defense is that it flies in the face of the presidential responsibilities in Article 2, section 3, clause 4, which call for the President to "take care that laws are faithfully executed."<br /><br />This interpretation of the constitutional powers of the President was adopted by the Bush administration, but no effort has been made by the Obama administration to change that interpretation.<br /><br />No proceedings against the Bush administration will go forward. There is a decent chance of a pardon if they ever did. Any non-impeachment offenses against the US can be pardoned by a sitting Prez. Nobody wants to get grilled by their successor, and they've probably all done something they could get grilled for. Nixon got pardoned.Stephen of Texasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-28449915294902787832010-02-17T09:35:01.204-08:002010-02-17T09:35:01.204-08:00"People care about where they are going to ge..."People care about where they are going to get thier mortgage payment. Not this. It is time to move on."<br /><br />And precisely how are these matters mutually exclusive, how is it that one should not be as concerned about the unconscionable physical torture of human being by these fascists as by their creation and conduct of the continuing financial crisis. Move on? Please. One suspects that you'd encourage Jews to forget about Auschwitz. <br /><br />Andrei VyshinskyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-78235234358783363182010-02-17T07:41:03.516-08:002010-02-17T07:41:03.516-08:00ho hum, we are still beating the Cheney Bush drum ...ho hum, we are still beating the Cheney Bush drum over torture. The world is ready to collapse, the financial industry is a shambles, Congress and the Adminstration are jumbled mess that can't even tie their own shoe, or in some cases change thier own diaper.<br /><br />Unemployment is, realistically at 20 plus percent and going to get a lot worse under our present leadership. People care about where they are going to get thier mortgage payment. Not this. It is time to move on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-60997731724102114892010-02-16T23:37:42.054-08:002010-02-16T23:37:42.054-08:00so who's going to make a citizen's arrest ...so who's going to make a citizen's arrest here? somebody please!Taradharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17665801586196931603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-43970114903188432702010-02-16T18:14:21.459-08:002010-02-16T18:14:21.459-08:00"The type of torture used by the U.S. in the ..."The type of torture used by the U.S. in the last 10 years is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the U.S. used torture techniques aimed at extracting false confessions."<br /><br />Torture with the purpose of producing false confessions can have only a political end. The great masters of this evil practice were the state security operatives in Stalin's Soviet Union in the period 1936-1953. Once the politics were defined, the operation of the juridical system had mostly a pedagogical aim. In great show trials, persons otherwise considered above suspicion on such things routinely confessed to spying, sabotage and were just as routinely executed. <br /><br />Today, given the determined unwillingness of the ruling class to hold itself accountable for what in any other day would have been considered war crimes - the unconscionable act of aggression brought against the people of Iraq in 2003, a case in point - any difference in moral content between the torture inflicted by the Soviet NKVD in, say, 1938 and that by CIA operatives in this decade is perfectly negligible. What does it have to say about the moral filth running our country that they behave exactly as did Stalin's Politboro? <br /><br />Andrei VyshinskyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-44498408361183429372010-02-16T14:14:48.611-08:002010-02-16T14:14:48.611-08:00Washinton's blog confesses to willful violatio...Washinton's blog confesses to willful violation of Godwin's law and flees country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com