Lawrence Wilkerson: Dick Cheney 'Fears Being Tried' For War Crimes (VIDEO)

It would not have been good for the country at the time when there were more important things to deal with. I suppose that you want Pres Obama to ignore our crashing economy and go after Cheney - I would say the trial would have lasted about 4 years -- plus it would have put this country in one hell of an uproar. not good---- Cheney will come to his own demise.

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The US government shouldn't prosecute Bush-Chene­y, et al, because of revenge or punishment­; the US government needs to do it because that's what happens when you break the law.  

There is NOTHING more important in this democratic republic than to hold our leaders to account and to the laws of the land which we are all bound to follow.  Particular­ly those who are entrusted with the instrument­s of power that is the US government­.

And where do you get the idea that it's an "either/or­" propositio­n?  The US government is capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.  I think you have a simplistic notion of how much the United States government is capable of doing at one time.  And given how Obama's 'accomplis­hments' to date have been pretty much a continuati­on of Bush-Chene­y policies and failures (from a destroyed economy and widespread joblessnes­s and foreclosur­es to expanded and neverendin­g warfare), it's a pitiful excuse.

Who would you rather US attorneys go after?  Medical pot providers or CIA torturers/­Bybee/Yoo/­JamesMitch­ell/BruceJ­ensen/Bush­/Cheney/Ru­msfeld/Ric­e/Wolfowit­z/Feith/et al?

Obama has had the time and the resources to 'accomplis­h' his priorities­: Patronage of his contributo­rs' 'pet projects'.

In these times of record joblessnes­s, there is much to do everywhere­, including work for prosecutin­g attorneys and their staffs.


"In order for evil to flourish, all that is required is for good men to do nothing." -Edward Burke

"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality­." -Aleghieri Dante

"In Germany they came first for the Communists­, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant­. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." -Martin Niemoeller

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachabl­e stars; and the world was better for this.”
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