There Must Be Accountability, President-elect Obama

Dave Lindorff: Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can Be Above the Law


Dave sets out the reasons why Obama must not allow the criminals in the Bush administration and their enablers to walk away from their crimes.

I could not agree more with Dave's analysis.

My position has nothing to do with vengeance.

It has more to do with real American patriotism.

Our Constitution is what makes us a people, united. We are not France or Germany, with long ties to a distant past. We are a young country of immigrants. We come from different countries and cultures. Part of what makes us strong is our ability to appreciate and honor our differences and turn them into strengths. But what makes us a people is our Constitution.

Our Declaration of Independence should be read or re-read by anyone who has not read it lately.

I agree whole heatedly with Dave when he says that a special prosecutor should be appointed.

The new president should not be distracted by investigations of crimes actually admitted to by our current President and Vice President. The Congress has better things to do, with the country going down the tubes economically, not to mention morally. The Congress has been busy for the last two years gathering every piece of information they could, given the administration's stone-walling.

Carl Levin has stated that there is enough evidence now for an indictment of several Bush top officials. Let's get it on, Peeps.

So, here is the latest invisible protest:

Contact the Obama team. Let them know that we will not tolerate war crimes in our name and with our blood and treasure.

Contact every Democrat you can and tell them the same. As a matter of fact, contact Republicans as well. Make it very clear that we want an honest investigation. Contact the media. Let them know as well that we will not tolerate war criminals in our midst; the same criminals who have shredded the constitution leaving us just a scattered people, with no real country.

If Bush and Cheney are allowed to walk free, after what they have done, I am not sure I can continue to be an American. This is no longer the country I have loved and served during my lifetime. If there is no investigation and everything is swept under the national carpet, which is already very lumpy, I will have no choice but to leave and ask for asylum, because the man I voted for will have become a conspirator after the fact.