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"little people" already got charged and are in jail. It's the big honcho torturer "deciders" like himself and a handful of others who will be his only concern. And I believe that that matter was settled just prior to Nancy Pelosi's "impeachment is off the table." (Nobody asked, WHAT "table," Nancy? And who was sitting at it?). The bargain was: 'Give us our country back, don't nuke Iran and go peacefully when the time comes--and get rid of Rumsfeld--and we won't hold you accountable.'
To figure out who got their country back (who was sitting at the table) will probably take us the rest of the century. It certainly wasn't "we, the people," but some consortium of global corporate predator interests--including politicos, military, the Bilderburg Group, who knows?--who felt that the Bushwhacks had gone too far. Notice how--at least so far--everything is the same. Even Obama sat back for the Financial 9/11 that the Bushwhacks just pulled off. And his plan? To put the Clintonite "free trader" neoliberals back in charge, with no money whatsoever left in the treasury for the poor and middle class, and move the Forever War to Afghanistan (and quite possibly to South America, for the oil).
Accountability is "off the table" for the big honchos. We might have some fun hearings about it all--but we won't see anybody who was in charge inflicted with any consequences for their mind-boggling crimes (not just torture).
You know, I think Obama is a good guy, I really do. But I think he is extremely hedged round, on peril of his career and possibly his life. He might be able to ease some of the pain of Great Depression II (--although things are set up for him to take the blame, and for the righwing dragons who run the 'TRADE SECRET' code voting machines, to come back in 2012, for the final end of our democracy. Beware! Get rid of these machines!) But he won't--and probably can't--achieve the structural changes needed to right this sinking ship. Our democracy was built by the middle class (after many a brave and magnificent movement by the poor--the labor movement, the civil rights movement, etc.) The American middle class is gone--deliberately destroyed, in my opinion, for its progressive values, and for its potential as the one force in the world capable of curtailing the global corporate predators who rule us all. We are back to square one, pre-New Deal, or square zero, pre-Revolution. (The first King George/British East India Co. = our President-King/Corporate Rulers.) But Obama is no FDR. At least, as far as I can see. (A friend points out that FDR was not a radical until after he became president.) The way it looks now, we're in for one helluva rough ride, and the analogies to Germany early 1930s are haunting, indeed.
It's also possible that some of the people at the "table" aren't such bad folk. Maybe they were looking at Armageddon and did the best they could, under the circumstances. They wanted to restore order, if not democracy. And their main bargaining chip was the personal liability of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzo, Addington, Cambone, Tenet, some generals, some private contractor CEOs, and the other junta players. It will be greatly unfair to prosecute anyone under that level. Investigate? Oh well. Yeah, sure. We do need to know. But I would be equally interested in Congressional Medals of Honor for whose resisted illegal orders, including the deserters who are in jail and/or sought refuge in Canada. (Canada is extraditing them, one after another--to face jail here for NOT committing the crimes that Bush ordered them to commit). Bush couldn't care less who suffers from orders he gave--except for him and his string-pullers. But we should care about fairness, and, in that respect, rewarding the brave is more important than prosecuting the moral cowards who went along with torture and the heinous slaughter of "shock and awe," some of them (esp. military) under threat of severe penalty.
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