Monday, August 10, 2009

Q & A

Should the Obama administration launch a criminal investigation of CIA treatment of detainees?

Yes, but that’s not enough.
The entire Iraq war should be under investigation.
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz etc. all should be placed under a microscope, preferably the Scanning Tunneling kind.
Before the extent of torture came to light, here's what I wrote on page one in my book WHY ARE WE IN IRAQ:

Saddam Hussein is dead and gone.
His fate was sealed soon after he climbed out of his spider hole.
Bush’s War will continue, and Saddam Hussein can now hang out with virgins in paradise.
How much better do we feel now that a brutal dictator has been put to death?
The United States of America is itself hanging in the balance of truth and justice.
Will the Bush administration be prosecuted for any Crimes or Misdemeanors?
Will President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney escape investigation for a war that was dictated and prosecuted with fabrication and obfuscation?
We may feel good about the hanging of Saddam Hussein, but we should not feel satisfied until our own leaders are brought to justice for an unjust and unnecessary war.



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer call the town hall protests against health care reform “Un-American.” Are they?

They’re not Un-American, but they are ugly and disruptive.
At least these protesters can do their protesting.
Didn’t George W. Bush only hand-pick his audiences?
The Republicans are dishing out what they didn’t want done to them and their own “mob rules.”
One thing for sure, if this unruliness escalates into behavior more extreme, then it won’t just be Un-American, it will be Un-Civilized.



Should the House cancel its order for $550 million worth of new jets?

Is that $550 million Monopoly money?
Isn’t it the (un)funny money that’s been used for a long time now in the good old U.S.A.?
Maybe Congress should do less jetting and more reading, you know, like reading what they vote for before they vote.



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