On May 8, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote: > On May 8, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote: > >> from Greenwald: >> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/08-16 >> >> But what's the point of all of this? Secretly telling Nancy Pelosi >> that you're committing crimes doesn't mean that you have the right >> to do so. And the profound failures of the other institutions that >> are supposed to check executive lawbreaking during the Bush era -- >> principally Congress and the "opposition party" -- is a vital issue >> that demands serious examination. This dispute over what Pelosi >> (and Jay Rockefeller and others) knew highlights, rather than >> negates, the need for a meaningful investigation into what took >> place. > > > > This is exactly right. Most people on 'the left' seem to be as eager > to investigate dems as repubs. The truth is that Pelosi had a pretty > good idea by 2004 about what was going on because everyone in America > did by then. I don't think the details about what she did or didn't > know in 2002 matter very much. She didn't personally vote for the > Military commissions act but she didn't expend any political capital > trying to stop it either. And the fact is that she is *still* not > trying to stop it. She isn't doing anything about Bagram although that > place is at least as bad as Gitmo.
yes ! and, if it's going on at Bagram, I think Obama should be held accountable K > > - > God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much > like their own image of him. > -Kenneth Patchen > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
