| megaman79 said: The next question is if he has said " The United States will not use torture from now on" then he is also implicating the Bush administration in the decision to have allowed it over the last few years. Will they now consider respecting international humanitarian rules too, such as Geneva, and prosecute the people who approved these techniques? From my point of view, my gov. just approved pay hikes for their staff, they don't even mention mining and energy lobbyists influencing policy but atleast we have withdrawn all combat troops from iraq. Kevin Rudd made it clear in parliament, the war was based on bullshit, so we did something right. |
Thta would be a great way to cause a firestorm. Obama would embroil himself in a losing battle if he tried to do that. He is better off just leaving the whole thing alone. He could cripple his entire presidency and essentially hand power back to Republicans. I would be way more upset if he tried to do that than failed to prosecute these people.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
