Anyone who claims Obama called the torturers "patriots"...

[LiberalLovinLug]

198. Oh come on

You don't think you can be taken seriously do you HappyMe?

So Lindsey Graham saw revelations of torture at abu ghraib, more extensive than the public has ever seen, way back in 2003 and was visibly shaken. And 11 years later, the President of the United States just now, along with the rest of us, has seen the torture report?

And you also have convinced yourself that he fully intends to prosecute the war crimes....its just that he with Eric Holder have just found out about what is revealed, or they have known about it, and kept it to themselves and are waiting for juuuuuuuuust the right time..or that they have actually been working on it but its just taking so damn long. Meanwhile he told the public that its better to "move on".


No, its pretty obvious Obama did not want to be "controversial" when he first entered office. He didn't want to become the President that would be portrayed in the MSM news as someone attacking our brave god fearing troops or putting the country at even greater terrorist threat, or in any way criticizing American the Beautiful (which is the way the MSM would define it). Hell he was already being accused of doing all those things, I think he had a choice then, either say what the hell, they are already attacking me I might as well just push ahead with prosecutions,...or....he could cower from the onslaught and try and appease the war criminal class into taking it easier on him, which is the direction he chose. Of course the MSM with the Republicans and probably a few Blue Dogs would have destroyed any chance of a second term. But historically, I think this one-term version of Obama would have been held in very high regard for starting the painful process that eventually got the USA back on track. But he made his choice early on.

The corporate class, including companies like Halliburton who made out like banshees in Iraq, want all methods, including torture, and lying to the public about the threat level to be continued to some future President to use. Obama has been very accommodating to them. And for that he will be justly rewarded. As Tony Blair was after he left office (more like shamed out) when he was appointed an executive of the Carlyle Group, an arms dealer that was awarded lucrative contracts in Iraq and heavily invested in by the Bush family.

If Obama does an about face at this point in time and declares he will go ahead with prosecution, with no limits on how high up the food chain, I will eat crow.