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1. MA_Matriarch January 31st, 2007 9:05 pm

   It might take another country to start handing indictments on the war crimes committed since no one in US is going to do anything about it. More power to them!

2. MichaelPDA February 1st, 2007 6:11 am

   The Bush Administration planned ahead for situations like this when in the early months of its coming to power it unsigned the U.S. as a supporter for the International Criminal Court. This administration has undermined the rule of law at home and abroad and have irreparably harmed the welfare and standing of our nation. Our elected leaders who rubber stamped the desires of this administration are complicit in allowing this to happen.

   We have become a pariah in the eyes of the world due to Bush’s two botched wars,his thumbing his nose at international law and the Geneva Conventions, his chipping away at the principles upon which this nation was founded, and now he is pushing for another war with Iran. The corporate media is already pounding the drums of war to spur the public’s support.

   Deja vu all over again.

   Until millions of Americans join the hundreds of thousands that were in Washington last weekend and demand change, we will continue to be a “democracy” that has no democracy, a nation betoken to the desires of the corporate and monied powers and interests.

   Already our military serves at the behest of the corporate powers, not to protect our nation, and the DOD is moving into new territory by expanding its powers in areas once kept in check. The military industrial complex surges. Over three thousand dead, for what? For Exxon, for Mobil.

   Sadly, in many ways the fault is not in those who have without much opposition grabbed power and taken our nation on its perilous path. The fault is found in the citizens of this nation for being content with all that distracts us from being a nation bent on expanding the meaning of democracy, for being a people who do not realize that securing democracy demands our constant participation and oversight. The fault is in the citizens for ignoring what is demanded of them as citizens.

   If the rule of law is good enough for a dictator to be hanged for his crimes, then we too must uphold the rule of law wherever it leads within our own nation. There cannot be one “law” for others and another law for ourselves if we are to be a nation among nations.

   Whose side, whose side are you on?

3. paschn February 1st, 2007 8:43 am

   God I love the free internet. Through it I’ve come to doubt; The holocaust, The U.S.’s “benevolent” reputation, The “Evil” Third Reich, The un-accounting for the allied massacre of Dresden, what a doughy swine McCain is by his blocking the deportation of a Russian under indictment from Putin’s Russia for possible connections to Israel and 9/11 and his father’s role in hiding the USS liberty’s massacre at the hands of Israel from the UN Sheeple, And the courage of today’s Germany in arresting the terrorist drones of Bush’s government involved in renditioning one of their citizens. Oh, blatantly different from Canada’s side-stepping the same issue.

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