BRING CHENEY TO JUSTICE, DAMNIT!

[supraTruth]

FOR TORTURE, WAR CRIMES & CORRUPTION!

[Warpy]

1. The next President will have to do that

and Cheney's trial will likely be postmortem.

The man looks like a walking cadaver these days.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Obama should do it

He needs to stop cowering before Cheney and the GOP.

Investigate and prosecute! They committed crimes and they should not get away with it.

[supraTruth]

6. EXACTLY!

[comtec]

9. please... don't you understand BIPARTISANSHIP at all?

it means the democrat in office bends over and takes it from the gop!
GOSH hasn't Obama's presidency taught you ANYTHING?!

[Warpy]

10. Only if you want every GOP president in perpetuity to prosecute the outgoing

Democrat for imaginary crimes. After all, they're still seeking revenge for the near impeachment of Richard Nixon. Those people don't forget, they hold grudges, they know how to hate, and they don't give a shit about the country.

That's why it's actually a bad idea for Obama to do this and why it will have to wait for the next president.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. So you're saying Obama shouldn't prosecute them for actual crimes

Because the next Republican President will prosecute the previous Democratic Administration for imaginary crimes.

[Warpy]

12. It's a precedent he doesn't want to set

and while I think their crimes are so egregious to warrant taking the risk, I can see why he doesn't want to be the one to do it.

Think about it. It took 30 years to get Pinochet, but they eventually did get him. They will get Addington, Yoo, Gonzales, Rice, and the rest of the architects of illegal war and torture but it's going to take time.

Cheney will have died in bed by then but the man is in a hell of his own making right now.

[supraTruth]

15. Can U say "AGNEW?"

If there are WAR CRIMES OR CORRUPTION on EITHER SIDE, THEN SO BE IT with the investigations & trials.

[supraTruth]

16. Naw; he's like a child ENJOYING ALL of the ATTENTION.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. Not shouldn't... WON'T. As in Will Not. Not during this administration at least. n/t

[Warpy]

14. Straw man argument

Read it again.

[stuckinarut]

17. If Obama were to prosecute,

he would leave himself open to the same treatment.

His record isn't exactly stellar when it comes to illegal detention, extraordinary rendition etc.

[gratuitous]

3. Oh, that would just be lookin' backwards to the past

We're all about lookin' forward to the future! Besides, do we really want to make mere policy differences into criminal matters? What's a little torture and war crimes anyway? Gee whiz, you libruls are sooooo petty sometimes.

Now, let's talk about how Obamacare is setting up death panels to kill grandmothers all over the country.

[The Traveler]

4. Mr. Cheney continues to perform an invaluable educational service

Time and again, he makes clear to the American people that rule of law only applies to the little people. :evilgrin:

Welcome to DU, BTW.

Trav

[Gregorian]

5. This gets a Rec from me.

You know that stupid phrase they made up? "Never Forget". Well, I'll never give up. Until justice is actually served, I'll always be waiting. It took 30 years for Pinochet. Do we need to wait that long?

[Lint Head]

7. This lying prick is being held up and presented as a valuable and important part of

our country by a lying and subversive corporately controlled news media. Why is medicine wasting an artificial heart on a murderer when other human beings are dying because they can't afford the same deserved compassion? I guess the cycnical mass media PR market just likes murderers more.

[supraTruth]

8. Yeah, like rick perry.