"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.
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.
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.
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...
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?