Question of the week(end)
If prosecuting Bush administration officials who engaged in or authorized torture is “looking backwards,” should we therefore release all prison inmates serving time for murder, or any other crime for that matter?
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Charlie Fugate Says :
April 24, 2009 at 8:06 pm
You and I share very little in common politically, and I’d like to approach this and comment with every bit of respect I can muster. The flaw(I believe) in your reasoning there is that (for the most part) everyone in prison has already been convicted rightly. President Bush, whatever his faults, has only been convicted in the court of public opinion. What if charges were brought and a US court agreed to hear a trial of President Bush?There would not be enough of his “peers” to hold a jury trial. I mean peers in the literal sense that there are only two former living presidents and one of them is his father, instant conflict of interest there.
My point is that unless a foreign country were to go the Hague and bring war crimes charges, the case would be moot. In my very humble opinion, if one were looking to charge anyone, it would have to be Don Rumsfeld.
Terry Carter Says :
April 24, 2009 at 8:15 pm
So from now on we should not prosecute any crimes whatsoever because that would be looking backwards. I’m sure the families of murder victims and the victims of rape will totally see the logic in that.
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