The nooses are tightening

Have you noticed that recently there has been more and more talk of impeachment, war crimes, accountability, torture, and related matters. Amnesty has come right out fighting, showing that Bush/Cheney and the neocons are clearly war criminals and deserve to be prosecuted. They even suggest that if the U.S. is unwilling to prosecute them other nations have a responsibility to do so. They go so far as to suggest that if any of these criminals travel to Acapulco or France or other countries those countries should arrest them and try them for their crimes. Obviously this is not very likely to happen because of U.S. power. But I hope you understand that this also means quite simply that "might makes right." Is that the way you want the world to be run?

Related to this is an interesting article by Marie Cocco on Newsday.com. She points out, and I think this is a long overdue explanation, that obviously the various techniques that were employed to torture Iraqis could not have just been dreamed up by the low level flunkeys that are being convicted. These techniques had to have been created by people who had considerable knowledge about Iraqi culture. The emphasis on nudity, shaving beards, sexual shame, fear of dogs, trashing the Koran, etc., were all fashioned by people who knew these were the kinds of things Iraqis would hate and fear the most. This seems to me to have been obvious from the very beginning but finally someone has come right out and said it.

Rumsfeld is being sued for his role in certain war crimes, and rightly so. There is plently of evidence that he was involved in allowing the techniques to be employed and he has even admitted to hiding one or more prisoners from the Red Cross, itself a crime. There is growing evidence, as you must know by now, that Bush himself is implicated in allowing torture to occur.

The impetus for pursuing an investigation and possible impeachment proceedings has to come from within the U.S. itself. Someone in the House of Representatives has to finally decide that Bush is clearly guilty of impeachable offenses and do something about it. How likely is that? Not likely as the House is controlled by the same right wing lunatics that have supported Bush all along. In short, there are no honorable people in the House and apparently very few in the Senate. A large percentage (but only about 40% at the moment) blissfully go on supporting war criminals to lead the United States. The world is watching and we are not doing what is required. The reputation of the U.S. has been damaged beyond belief and, in fact, may never recover. So brace yourself for all out endless "war" because the neocons have no other alternative.

Wouldn't it be nice if once, just once, there would be some good news out of Iraq? Afghanistan? Anywhere?