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Obama-Ignoring Bush War Crimes

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By NOT investigating and prosecuting Bush's war crimes, Obama becomes implicated by his own failure to act, covering up the crimes and shielding the perpetuators, even having full jurisdiction and the responsibility to act, and with full knowledge of the crimes.

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By ignoring Bush administration war crimes, Obama is reinforcing the two-tiered justice system that already is too apparent in this country. And, although Obama is attempting to remove the moral stain of the Bush administration, his unwillingness to make a clean break with Bush policies or to support investigation of war crimes undermines his own efforts. America cannot reassume the moral high ground when it refuses to investigate its own war crimes. Obama is thus inadvertently reinforcing the justified perception of other nations that, once again, America is acting as though it is the Exceptional nation, and is, therefore, above the law. In so doing, he is providing the kind of "advertisement for anti-American sentiment" that made him so critical of Cheney, Link http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4527.shtml      

 

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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps [ USMC ] Vietnam Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that George W. Bush had attacked (more...)
 

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