WASHINGTON, District of Columbia – It’s a funny thing to me that the so-called ‘window of opportunity’ seems to be closing on the prosecution of the George W. Bush Administration for War Crimes, by the day.
In last night’s State of the Union Address there was barely but a mention, a near after thought, out of the mouth of President Obama for such, especially at the mention of the word torture.
(Mr. Abu Zubaydah and Anwar Al-Awlaki were not available for comment…)
And NOW, today, barely a full twenty-four hours removed from all things S O T U we have this report from The Huffington Post.
As the new GOP-controlled Congress breaks ground on all things Legislative Branch of Government we learned between last night’s SOTU and today that the newly minted Senate Intelligence Committee, Chaired by GOP Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina will turn back in, kind of like homework for a school kid, the so-called ‘Panetta Review’.
This is, for the most part, the milk, butter and eggs of a case to be made against George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors against, not only, the American people, but the Citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan. Where illegal and costly wars were fought for nearly half a century, longer than the War in Vietnam and most certainly longer than the Korean War and World War II combined!
And as the lips of Barack Obama dripped the word, more or less, “No!” via interposition and nullification and as Richard Burr, the now Chairman of the Select Committee for Intelligence in the United States Senate prepared to turn in the Committee’s homework on CIA, Bush-era torture and ‘rendition’ programs post 9/11. I began to think about my old granddad and that last so-called ‘Greatest Generation’ and all that they fought, bled, and died for to liberate a world from tyranny. Is that what they fought for? What he fought for?
Fixed it so that Richard Burr could turn in the homework not to the American people and the world but turn the homework back in to the school marm?!
Surely not!
Surely. They risked life and limbs for a cause greater than themselves. The cause(s) of freedom. Liberty. Peace. Information. Finally, TRUTH! Because it is the TRUTH that is most important. The telling of the tale. The ‘tale of the tape’ that was the Greatest War. The War, to END All Wars!
Men, women, and children of age, then said, in one resounding voice, “Never again!” They vowed a vow to themselves, their God and their posterity, “We will never ever do this again! Enough! No more! War is to great and to costly a sacrifice, far to much of a burden to bear. We would much prefer that the World, as we now know it, live in peace, be in peace…”
Until the next war or the next ‘police action’-The Korean Conflict. A conflict which divided a nation in two! North and South, with a demilitarized zone in its middle.
And again the World said, “Never again!” Until the next police action-The War in Vietnam.
“Never again, most certainly, NEVER AGAIN!” they all said. Until the next conflict and the next police action; again, and again, and again, over and over, repeating the same mistakes, worse than the previous ones before, until the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(When comes the end?)
Where and when and thereafter the so-called ‘9-11 Generation’ has stood up, and proclaimed in one loud and resounding voice just like their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers before, “NEVER! Again!” Only this time they added, “We were lied to, have been lied to, just like our war making ancestry before us. Prosecute the liars, crooks and thieves to the fullest extent of the law. Get them all where they live, bring them to justice Congress and President Obama!”
Then candidate for President in 2008 United States Senator Barack H. Obama, II. said that he would, he even said that he would when he was running to become a United States Senator for Northern Illinois and the Chicago Land District in 2004.
Upon taking the office of President, he again, said and was open to in fact prosecuting George Bush and ‘certain members of his administration for war crimes’.
In his book, “With Liberty and Justice for Some” author Glenn Greenwald goes into painstakingly obvious detail to point this all out, yet Obama, not true to his word, reneged on his promise from both near and far while at the lectern of civil discourse.
Time and memorial Barack Obama and his Administration have continued to provide duck and cover for a part and partial of the Rothschild-Rockefeller-Illuminati-Zionist-Police-State because he, to, like so many of his colleagues in Washington, is beholden to such.
Anything and everything for a buck and that next big re-election cycle. ‘Keep me in power and I will do this’. And the this is laid out, laid bare really, before the American people at the behest of such a regime as the one in which I just mentioned.
We have not attempted to prosecute a current or former President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors until Richard Nixon, sure honorable mention can be made for William Jefferson, “Bill” Clinton, but then Republican-controlled Congresses in the 1990’s could not agree, could not come to a consensus on the way in which he needed to be prosecuted and what EXACTLY he should be prosecuted for!
It is, a vicious cycle folks.
One that cannot be denied. Knowing my late grandfather as I do, he would, I am sure, be in agreement with the 911 generation, George Bush and Richard Cheney should be prosecuted for war crimes!
Watch this space closely folks…
–Rhett.
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