I have a nagging worry that the eagerness of some Democrats in Congress and some activist organizations to press for what would be months and even years of inquiries and investigations into Bush-era war crimes is due in part to an eagerness to divert themselves, and us, from the seemingly insoluble problems we face in the present, which require every minute of attention from the White House and Congress. The past can wait.
This guy is fucking crazy. He's saying that prying open the Pandora's Box of the war crimes that were committed by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, et al -- despite the fact that the investigations and hearings would take "months and even years" -- is the low-hanging fruit the Democrats need to avoid tackling the serious economic issues that Bush, Cheney, Paulson, and congressional Republicans and Democrats feeding at the trough dropped at the feet of taxpayers.
Like Sullivan, I believe that dealing with law-breaking is always a present issue. You don't see local D.A.'s saying, "Oh, I know we've got the suspect in our sights, but that 1975 murder case is so, well, 1975! Time to move on; let's deal with the problems we have now." If that were an acceptable approach to law enforcement, then Byron de la Beckwith would have been working his toothless jaw on his front porch, sipping on lemonade and talking to the voices in his head for the rest of his miserable little life, instead of rotting in jail and dying a convicted murderer.
Maybe they can get James Woods again to play Cheney in the movie version of this particular story.
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