Negroponte's Confession Convicts the Bush Administration

"It (waterboarding) wasn't used when I was director of national intelligence, nor even a few years before that," he said. "I get concerned that we're too retrospective and tend to look in the rearview mirror too often at things that happened four or even six years ago." - John Negroponte, evil-doer.

Waterboarding is "an important tool." - Dick Cheney

"The things that I used to do, Lord I don't do them no more." - Elmore James, poet

In a court of law, how much weight do you think this statement by the accused would carry, "Your honor, I know I stole that car, and used it to sell heroin, but that was in 2003, your honor. I don't do that no more."

Congress has it wrong. There is a taste for justice in America. American is now the face of evil in the world. The Republicans have crushed every ounce of the humanity, compassion, justice and morality that Americans thought they stood for.

Obama nor anyone else on the Democratic side can bring us together as long as the Republicans carry on as though they've done nothing wrong. The day that a major figure rises in the Republican Party who is sincere about working out America's problems alongside Democrats, any attempt by the Democrats to be "bipartisan" is doomed.

For proof, check the record of the 110th Congress. The Mitch McConnell's and John Boehner's of the world have not moved an inch. What's Obama or anyone else going to do about them? Remember, JFK and his brother may have inspired a generation but they were murdered along with Martin Luther King by people of the same mentality who waterboard, or order waterboarding.

The depth of the evil the Republicans and those who comply with them is staggering and unabated. Let's be clear about that. No need to enumerate their sins here. We know what they are. Congress does too, yet they will not act.

Criminals. Criminal acts deserve criminal penalties. A man goes to jail for years for the crime of smoking crack in a pipe. The Republicans get rich from their crimes. And laugh at people like us.

Congress, where is your sense of justice? Or are you just as complicit, cozy in your little club in Washington.

Americans want justice. We think of ourselves as a just nation. Where is the justice for the criminals of the Bush administration...from the top down.

Yes, you've heard all this before. No, it can't be repeated enough.

Comments

[nlightenup]

Thank you. Well said, should be widely read.

[TXfemmom]

Obama says that he will unite with the Republicans. For the record, I don't think that the Republicans are going to turn into huggy-bear, kissy-faced individuals when Bush is gone. We need a leader, and let's face it...all of them have flaws, but someone who is willing to fight, claw, slam, hammer, bite, and STRUGGLE to disarm and declaw the Republicans. Someone who wants to be their buddy is not going to work. Everyone keeps speaking of vision, and Obama used vision and Reagan in the same sentence. For me, that cooked him, period. Anyone who considers Reagan to have been a visionary is either a fool or a tool of the Republicans AND LACKS THE VISION TO BE A PRESIDENT WHO CAN BEGIN to make America whole. Congress needs a President who will kick their asses, if they begin to act like the current one, and who will make their Attorney General investigate, unravel, and prosecute all that has been committed crimeswithin this administration and put them in jail. We must make the people who would do, and be what we have seen from Bush, Cheney and their thugs to AFRAID, VERY AFRAID, of ever trying this again.

Hillary and Edwards are both capable of the leadership and both have the grit, true grit, to take them on. I would prefer Edwards, but if not he, then MAKE HIM ATTORNEY GENERAL AND TURN HIM LOOSE ON THESE CRIMINALS. Hillary is not perfect, but Obama keeps talking vision, but his vision is an illusion, if he finds Reagan to be a visionary and wants to make buddies with the Republicans.

I want a fighter, a scrapper, a person who has the guts to stand up and FIGHT. Most of the ultra liberals flocking to Obama are doing so because they fear being called racists Obama is certainly playing the race card. I have voted for many African-Americans, but like MLK, I voted for them because they had the policies and the abilites to do the job, and not because of the color of their skin.

[syllepsis]

I couldn't agree with this more.
The Republican Party is a criminal organization in the guise of a political party.
And that word 'complicit.' Am I complicit, because I voted for New York's disgrace of a Democratic Senator, Chuck Schumer, who brought us Attorney General Mukasey, the waterboarder in chief?
Yes, I am.

[MacBruce]

If waterboarding is "an important tool," what do say we drag Cheney by the scruff of his neck and see how he likes it. It would be interesting to see what one could squeeze out of him regarding the energy conferences he hosted seven years ago.

It's funny that ever since then, fuel prices have DOUBLED, and yet, nobody at the White House seems to give a fat rats ass about it. Anybody care to ponder why that would be? These fascist bastards can't be gone soon enough...

[wiseapple]

I can't figure out why nothing is done about these kooks! They have broken the laws; they've been undermining the Constitution and... nothing! First off, representatives should be signing on to the Kucinich bill calling for Cheney's impeachment. People should be signing on at wexlerwantshearings.com to get movement in this direction. Witnesses need to be subpoenaed, and the executive privledge claims ought to be over-ruled. I still think they can do too much more damage over the next year to allow them to remain in office!

[DoninJoisey]

I do not believe all republicans are scum, nor that all democrats are noble.
Larry Craig had republicans abandon him, Clinton had dems defend him, even tho he clearly lied under oath.
We are way beyond such "trivial" infractions as Craig or Bill - illegal wiretapping, torture, an aggressive war based on lies, outing of Valerie Plame, war profiteering,... - should not go unpunished.
There are some, like Ron Paul, who I don't agree with on many things, who stands on ideals and has called Iraq a war for oil.

I cannot condone the Pelosi "impeachment is off the table" stance.
If this "axis of evil" doesn't deserve impeachment and justice, who does?

[westwind]

Amen. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid - are there two more pathetic losers in power today? Bush is too far gone to ever realize or admit the crimes he has enabled; Pelosi will probably come to realize her error eventually, but by then it will probably be too late to save the Constitution she was elected to defend. I thought they were on the side of justice, but they are really, as you rightly state "...complicit, cozy in [their] little club in Washington'.