Obama's AG Would 'Immediately Review' Bush Crimes »
Posted By Neophile 1 year, 2 months ago in NewsObama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted.
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Will13131 year, 2 months ago
that's why Cheney will head to Dubai... and Bush to South America..
still not out of reach of a Predator and a Hellfire..
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ETproductions1 year, 2 months ago
Maybe Obama should leave their brainchild, extraordinary rendition, on the books till the whole lot are rounded up and brought to justice.
Reason enough for me to vite for Obama. My only concern is will the DOJ have any time left to do anything else?
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injest1 year, 2 months ago
Wow, pandering to the lunatic fringe, I wonder what his internal polling is telling him?
Guess labeling millions of small town Americans as Gun-toting Bible thumping Racist is taking a toll.
Perhaps he's just desperate to change the subject?
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Lincoln851 year, 2 months ago
Obama has to be the biggest fool ever if he thinks he will get Bush on war crimes. I am still laughing about this. He is as likely to get Bush on war crimes as we are to get his pastor on racial hate crimes! I thought he was all about "CHANGE". Does not every new administration accuse or go after the previous...and that is very presumptious thinking he will be the next president. It will probably be the wife of the former boyfriend of Monica Lewinsky. Can't wait for that trainwreck again. By the way, did we ever resolve Clinton's warcrimes in regard to bombing an Iraq aspirin factory?...I know its not fair...just using the same bogus reasoning you are.
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quackpot1 year, 2 months ago
Obama was also careful to say that he would not want such an investigation to become a witch-hunt.
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grungeplunge1 year, 2 months ago
The Spanish Inquisition's witch-hunts were never officially declared as such, either...
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
(((((Obama was also careful to say that he would not want such an investigation to become a witch-hunt.)))
He says to the onlooking witches and warlocks. What do you think it will turn out to be? Look at all the witch hunting that's gone on over the last two years since the Dems won the House.
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simonsez1 year, 2 months ago
As usual, the title hardly fits the story, but it's enough to draw out the avengers.
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crespi1 year, 2 months ago
You mean those of us that believe in JUSTICE?
If Bush preemptively nukes anyone and causes mass death, America can try him and hang him...
(You mean like that?)
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
Well, maybe this will put an end to the moronic misconstruing of what Senator Obama said at the fundraiser in San Francisco.
What other politician is willing to speak truth to power better than Senator Barack Obama? The only other one that comes to mind is Senator James Webb.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS1 year, 2 months ago
I agree but one must read carefully the words spoken. He said he would have his Ag (who will that be?) look and investigate only. Was this the usual double speak, and if the investigation found cause, would he pursue it, or turn it over to some committee that will take years to bring justice to the American people, or bury it? I guess we'll just just to see whether, or not anything gets done.
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Charlson1 year, 2 months ago
Whoever becomes president should bring those in government guilty of committing crimes to the light of day and prosecute them and reenforce the ideals of our Constitution that no man or party is above our laws and all men are equal in the eyes of justice. But of course the wing nuts want a bye. If they committed crimes, it was to protect us while making a few bucks for themselves and their friends. They only politicized the judiciary so they could weed out the democrats while protecting republicans. Isn't that the wing nut way? But hey, executive privilege trumps Congress and is all powerful even if the Constitution ensures a check and balance on the three branches of government. So remember, wing nuts, the next president can also be KING if he or she isn't kept in check.
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doggammit1 year, 2 months ago
I'll pos that comment Charlie, only because the corridor to unchecked power - now already opened by the Bush regime - may be just as tantalizing to the next president - whether McClown, Hillary or Obama. Certainly the former two prospects are salivating over an entitlement Obama has apparently rejected. Does reality match this appearance? In Obama's case, we may yet have the good or ill fortune of seeing for ourselves. With the other two, the idea of dynastic continuity implcit in both their campaign rhetoric and character profiles suggest that continued rule by presidential fiat is all but confirmed. So the choices, nil on one hand and tenuous on the other - are becoming more clear with each passing announcement from the Obama camp. What is significant in all of this is that Obama has already tred where the others fear to go. So the dichotomy widens even as Obama continues to crack open sacred eggs and roast sacred cows to make his political buffet.
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automan9091 year, 2 months ago
What crimes?? I see no crimes.
Now Bill Clinton committed many crimes.
Like giving nuke info to China.
Stealing from the White House when he left office.
Lying under oath about having sex with Monica.
Rape.
How much more do you want to hear?
Typical for Dems not to look in the mirror though.
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
Well, you're not looking hard enough.
President Clinton did not "give nuke info to China" anymore than President Bush gave nuke technology to Taiwan. Someone did so under his watch, but the President didn't have anything to do with it.
The second one is a bald-faced lie and has been thoroughly debunked.
Number three he was charged, impeached and tried for. He was acquitted. Can President Bush say the same? I think not.
And I don't even know where you're getting the last one. If he could have been charged for it, he would have been. Certainly the hate was (and is, based on your comments) there to make it happen.
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djn3nunez31 year, 2 months ago
Want some cheese with that whine?
After 7 wastefull year investigating President Clinton all the Pseudo-Cons could come up with was he lied about an getting a hummer? If they had any inkling of the garbage you just spewd they would have investigated it further.
Get over it, President Clinton was a far better President than the (War Criminal) President Bush.
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Will13131 year, 2 months ago
What crimes?? I see no crimes.
--- VERY HARD TO SEE WITH YOUR HEAD UP YOUR ASS ----
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/...
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hamy1 year, 2 months ago
Really? You don't find anything wrong with the illegal activities of Bush?
In the wiretapping scandal, his own attorney told him that he was breaking the law and resigned because of it.
One lie about a sexual encounter that didn't affect his job in any tangible way versus repeated lies that caused the deaths and injuring of over 300,000 people including the reported deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers.
Which would you choose?
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automan9091 year, 2 months ago
Wonder who his AG would be.
Farakhan?
Sharpton?
Jesse Jackson?
Rev. Wright?
Probably some racist black guy just like him.
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Bkumm1 year, 2 months ago
Are you automan because you automatically get downloads from Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity? Think for yourself.
A likely AG candidate is John Edwards. None of people you mentioned are qualified. It's a transparent attempt to divert attention from the fact that the Bush Administration should be investigated for several crimes.
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PapaWolf1 year, 2 months ago
automan909,
I know you're trying to be facetious, but even tho none of them are qualified for the job, ANY AND ALL would be better than the Regent College Rejects Bush has saddled us with for the past 8 years.
And just because they promote policies that are advantageous to the Black community, and decry & denounce the evils that have been perpetrated on the Black community for centuries - and, contrary to the pronouncements of W & others, still persist - does not make them racist. Just like citizens promoting policies to assist the White, Latino, Asian, &/or other communities doesn't make those citizens racist.
Don't be scared. Most Blacks really couldn't care any less about doing something bad to you simply because you're White. There's no need to be scared simply because they're Black.
And, btw, Obama is half White. Which half scares you more?
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lum-chate1 year, 2 months ago
I was hoping he would give the post to Oprah. Obama the Democratic version of an albatross!
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jordan111 year, 2 months ago
I do hate that expression that democrats banter about; "The country needs to move on." That's BS. There are enough people in this country who are more than capable of recognizing the need to get on with putting our nation back in order, and at the same time understanding that letting wrong doing go unpunished will merely set the stage for future wrong doing, just as happened with those who brought forward their criminal agenda's from the Reagan/Nixon administrations.
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
"I do hate that expression that democrats banter about; "The country needs to move on."
--I hate it even more when the GOP uses it. How many times have we heard "now is not the time for pointing fingers...blah, blah, blah" but they don't have a problem blaming homeowners for getting sucked into the sub prime loan disaster.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 2 months ago
SWEET
was the word that immediately jumped into my head when I read the opening sentence in my messages
TY for the brief moment of happiness Neo
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unlike certain people who think its no longer a priority to make Bin Laden pay for what he did, in terms of justice, I think better late than never
I know the current crew are masters at covering their asses, but I have to think they must have missed a loophole or two
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unrelated, I recently read somewhere that someone documented that members of the Bush administration stated Saddam had links, associations, dealings, ties etc, with Al Qaeda[which Bush and Cheney of course later refuted] 953 times
The issue has always been the same since I first posted on here as Amp Lee 3-4 years ago:
Either they are bold-faced liars and scoundrels or utterly incompetent fools who killed and got killed thousands upon thousands of people
name your poison
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Dionys1 year, 2 months ago
"unrelated, I recently read somewhere that someone documented that members of the Bush administration stated Saddam had links, associations, dealings, ties etc, with Al Qaeda[which Bush and Cheney of course later refuted] 953 times "
Yes. This is a fascinating report documenting each and every lie told by BushCo in the lead up to the Iraq war. 953 seperate, known lies to justify a pre-emptive war (read invastion) of a country with no ties to 9/11 or Al-Quaeda. Disgusting at best.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 2 months ago
I guess I should expand on the 'liars' or 'fools' thing in case anyone doesn't know what I mean
When no WMD and no AQ came out, and Bush and Cheney began admitting it, some people on here were saying, 'hey, the whole world thought he had WMD's', and 'hey, they just used the intelligence they had, not their fault they got bad intel and believed lying informants'
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
"I know the current crew are masters at covering their asses, but I have to think they must have missed a loophole or two"
--I think those missing White House emails are going to come back to haunt this administration (probably in the same way that Martha Stewart's amateurish attempt to re-write electronic history came back to haunt her). Even if Rove, Bush, and Cheney manage to elude computer forensics experts, somebody out there somewhere has the goods and the informations will be uncovered. It's just a matter of time.
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
Actually it should also help consolidate conservatives who believe in the principles of american democracy.
The Case to Impeach the President
.. conservative constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who prepared articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and Nation Washington Correspondent John Nichols agreed that there is a substantial case for impeaching President Bush....
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070730/case_to_i...
Bush Must Go
Only Impeachment Can Stop Him
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01152007.html
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
and guess what jimd, more and more conservatives support Obama. Your tired old chants of liberal are way out of date.
March 24, 2008 Issue
The American Conservative
The conservative case for Barack Obama
Barack Obama is no conservative. Yet if he wins the Democratic nomination, come November principled conservatives may well find themselves voting for the senator from Illinois....
.. For conservatives to hope the election of yet another Republican will set things right is surely in vain. To believe that President John McCain will reduce the scope and intrusiveness of federal authority, cut the imperial presidency down to size, and put the government on a pay-as-you-go basis is to succumb to a great delusion. The Republican establishment may maintain the pretense of opposing Big Government, but pretense it is.
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slate1 year, 2 months ago
Of course, they will turn a blind eye to anything the left has done in the past or future,,,,
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mesodude1 year, 2 months ago
What's comical about your post is the fact that wingjobs apparently haven't bothered to consider the possibility that McCain (who has at least a couple of axes to grind with Dumbo'ya), should he be elected, just might do some "reviewing" of his own.
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jovial1 year, 2 months ago
Nothing would do my soul better than seeing those who perpetrated these crimes against America and it's constitution to answer and pay for their transgressions. I agree hdethn, the people that allowed this should also stand trial, but they won't. The next President will be handed such a mess, that they will have to work 24/7 just to try to fix the economy and the Iraq situation. I think that this administration knows this. That's why they're leaving it as f'ed up as possible. The best way for criminals to elude capture and prosecution is to keep their captors busy with other crimes.
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TonyByron1 year, 2 months ago
Come on now, since the dems won both houses they have been desperately fishing for evidence of any "crimes" to pin on the White House. So far...nothing. Alleging someone committed a crime does not make someone guilty. Much to the dismay of some on the left.
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PapaWolf1 year, 2 months ago
How can an investigation proceed when the WH doesn't allow sworn testimony, subpoenaed evidence, or even those subpoenaed to show up?
Keep believing that nothing's been "pinned" on the WH. By W's own admission, he was aware of, & approved, "aggressive" interrogation techniques, ie, torture.
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
Seriously, Tony.
Do you remember how many investigations there were of Bill Clinton by the Republican-controlled Congress? How many people and documents were subpoenaed, how the investigations wound their way through a variety of different subjects before they could find ONE crime?
That crime was lying about a personal action that in no way affected the operations of the nation or the welfare of its citizens. And that crime was PRODUCED by the series of unrelated investigations--it had NOTHING to do with anything Congress might have been investigating to begin with.
THAT was a world-class fishing expedition. What Bush has avoided dealing with for all this time is answering honest questions and producing documents about activities in which the public has a real and urgent interest.
There is a difference between legitimate investigation and fishing.
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bill29361 year, 2 months ago
So essentially team Obama will waste taxpayer's money to investigate nothing, so they can have an excuse to do nothing about the economy? Sounds like the present Congress. Look at the economy today vice the economy in 12/06. Since coming to power the Democratic Congress has investigated 'Steroids in Major League Baseball' and the 'NE Patroit Videogate'. They have fiddled while Rome burns.
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dunkirk1 year, 2 months ago
ROFLMAO, you make it sound like under Bush we had a robust economy instead we've had a phantom economy supported by as housing market that just imploded. THAT implosion was the result of the lending schemes the REPUBLICANS kept defending as the poor mans way of buying a house. When it imploded, as usual, the right wing starts pointing fingers all over to place the blame for their greed,
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doppich1 year, 2 months ago
Ken Starr and the GOP wasted $60M of taxpayer money on their "investigation" of the Clintons, so a little turnabout is OK with me. But you needn't worry. Nothing will come of this. Soon we'll hear What Obama Really Meant. Bush doesn't need to move to Paraguay yet.
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PapaWolf1 year, 2 months ago
>>investigated 'Steroids in Major League Baseball' and the 'NE Patroit Videogate'. They have fiddled while Rome burns.
Weren't those initiated by a REPUBLICAN congressman?
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JGPrimeNews1 year, 2 months ago
What does congress has to do with the economy? and the economy has been ******ty since Bill gave it to bush. If this your new marching order bill2936. You are the 6 or 7 GOPer today that has blamed the state of the economy on the congress. An economy doesn't go bad overnight smart guy it does so over time. Would you stop opening your mouth if you don't we wouldn't know yo are stupid!
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doppich1 year, 2 months ago
He may order the review "immediately," but that will be the end of it. His next "immediate" action would be to take his Unity Pony for a ride, and punishing the Bush criminals would make for a bumpy ride.
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newbie04201 year, 2 months ago
More "lip service" from Obama to the ultra-left.
How much you wanna bet that IF Obama becomes President, NOTHING will happen to Bush?
Why do peple keep buying into his garbage....
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PapaWolf1 year, 2 months ago
Or the Republicans filibustered & W vetoed while the economy crashed.
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Obama_4_Ever1 year, 2 months ago
Nice promise but will be pointless once Shrub pardons everyone who ever served in his goverment
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Will13131 year, 2 months ago
he can't issue BLANKET PARDONS... a what if...
it's actually BRILLIANT.. if Obama holds true.. Bush can't pardon if no charges are brought BEFORE he leaves office.. and he can't once he leaves... might just be why Pelosi took impeachment OFF THE TABLE....try them on CRIMINAL CHARGES after leaving office...
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walden31 year, 2 months ago
More sweet nothings whispered in the electorate's ear by the very eloquent and dashing candidate Obama. Since he's been a senator what has he done to push investigations? Nothing.
This is nothing more then a sweet carrot dangled before the donkeys.
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 2 months ago
eloquent
hopefully not true
good to be skeptical about anything a presidential candidate says
you know what they say tho
hope springs eternal
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wasn't that cute little spitfire Kuccinich the only guy to actively push for impeachment?
I was looking at the voting record on authorization of force
maybe besides the practical reasons for not attempting impeachment, so many of them know they are complicit
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DeadXXXManXXXTalkin1 year, 2 months ago
not for nothing, but I wish there was a 5th button on here
besides 'good' 'bad' 'block' 'report'
I'd like to see a 'neutral'
Lots of times I don't want to hit good or bad, but I'd like to let the person know I bothered to read what they wrote
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