HELLO, hindsight is 20/20. I am not a fan of Mr. Bush (voted for Obama), but do allow for the fact that he (Mr. Bush) may have been given wrong info from the so called "Intelligence Community". I think that the US intelligence gathering community may have been overrated or underfunded!!!

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein needed to be gone from the World, as are a few other rotten, greedy persons, especially in Africa. But time will see them in hell.

My bitch is that the Bush Adminstration put Colin Powell in the UN on the line to take responsibility for their actions & that was just wrong!!!!

I do not take the path of Christianity, or that of the Moslem world, I am Wiccan. My philosophy is that what goes around, comes around. In other words, what you sow so shall you reap.

What all people need to recognise is that we are all connected in spirit & need to find a way to connect with each other. We need to see the sameness & work out the differences in a reasonable way.

There will always be radicals that want to cause trouble, but if we look at the World as a whole family we can deny the radicals the power to destroy us & look to the power of the human spirit to sustain us.

Revenge is the province of immature personalities.

War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted

by Marjorie Cohn
[Since he took office, President Obama has instituted many changes that break with the policies of the Bush administration. The new president has ordered that no government agency will be allowed to torture, that the U.S. prison at Guantánamo will be shuttered, and that the CIA's secret black sites will be closed down. But Obama is non-committal when asked whether he will seek investigation and prosecution of Bush officials who broke the law. "My view is also that nobody's above the law and, if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen," Obama said. "But," he added, "generally speaking, I'm more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards." Obama fears that holding Team Bush to account will risk alienating Republicans whom he still seeks to win over.

Obama may be off the hook, at least with respect to investigating the lawyers who advised the White House on how to torture and get away with it. The Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has written a draft report that apparently excoriates former Justice Department lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee, authors of the infamous torture memos, according to Newsweek's Michael Isikoff. OPR can report these lawyers to their state bar associations for possible discipline, or even refer them for criminal investigation. Obama doesn't have to initiate investigations; the OPR has already launched them, on Bush's watch.

The smoking gun that may incriminate George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, et al., is the email traffic that passed between the lawyers and the White House. Isikoff revealed the existence of these emails on The Rachel Maddow Show. Some maintain that Bush officials are innocent because they relied in good faith on legal advice from their lawyers. But if the president and vice president told the lawyers to manipulate the law to allow them to commit torture, then that defense won't fly.

A bipartisan report of the Senate Armed Services Committee found that "senior officials in the United States government solicited information on how to use aggressive techniques, redefined the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorized their use against detainees."...]
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/20-1

Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn't be a great idea. He also stipulates that "not very many" American soldiers' lives were worth losing to take out Saddam during the Gulf War.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18171.htm

"Dinner Footwear May Be Optional

By BILL KAUFMANN

February 21, 2009 "Calgary Sun" -- I really hope he shows up in the flight suit.

He can also, in good conscience, bring along that banner he once courageously blamed on sailors because this time, his mission really is accomplished.

It's hard being a stranger to those accomplishments -- international law and a nation's image disemboweled, untold billions cast to the winds, cronies rewarded and the rest be damned.

Civilians incinerated by liberty bombs while it's others who are the terrorists.

Like 9/11 with its many warnings, failure a successful ingredient for the ensuing narrative.

Where does it end? It's like capping carp in a tub.

But his biggest accomplishment may unfold next month and Calgary's his chosen stage.

While legal peril swirls around George W. Bush's White House lawyers for their role in empowering torturers, Bush will cross an international border -- possibly for the first time -- as a free and private citizen.

It's only a couple of months since a Senate committee fingered Bush and Dick Cheney for torture, meaning U.S. law enforcement is obligated to indict them.

Almost the day word came of his Calgary date, unredacted U.S. government documents detailed how their interrogators in Iraq and Afghanistan battered their victims to death...."
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22058.htm

GR remember to live by Your words

GR You are great,hope you are having a good day

Nods and smiles.

LOL! ifticar:it's not capitalising "random" words.
It's EMPHASISING key words that follow a theme of content.
I am too old and battle worn to be "overly emotional" and too sane to be "irrational".
I think what you mean is,is that if you walked along a street and came across someone speaking the truth(with all the evidence and documentation in their hands,BUT YOU DIDN'T AGREE,then you would still IGNORE the truth blindly,and cross the street. That's called denial.As in those that believe that "ignorance is bliss".
I am NOT one who believes in ignorance,I prefer knowledge of everything,however painfully and unpleasant it may be.Because if you do not learn,read,study and GAIN KNOWLEDGE,you cannot change things for the better,OR CHALLENGE those who should be held accountable for BLATANT WAR CRIMES.
But if you wish to be one of those who crosses the road and avoids the truth,that's your RIGHT,but don't forget to look "both ways" at the same time,because the truth has a way of 'hitting' you when you don't bother to look.
Do I get emotional/angry about issues? You are DARN RIGHT I DO!
Because my rationality and common-sense and HUMAN INSTINCTS tell me that something is terribly wrong,terribly inhuman,darn right CRIMINAL and should be accounted for by a fair Rule of,Constitutional and human,Law.
And as for Keith Olbermann?
He is often a FINE VOICE that speaks truth to power. Very rational and considerably polite and CALM under the circumstances of the moral and ethical MESS we(America)is in right now.
Why do you think he's been ostericised by other mainstream media channels?
Because he speaks the truth and THEY DON'T LIKE THAT,(as,obviously,YOU don't too).
We don't have many brave TV presenters/journalists like that any more in the MSM.
You don't like my posts? They are not here to be 'liked'.
People don't always like or can TAKE the truth well.
But,hey! That's fine.Just skip all my posts.That's your prerogative.
If you "avoid reading them",how do you know the content,and get so upset by them?
HHmmmm! LOL!

القرآن بسيطة جميلة من الله

Just talk about the issue instead talking about the style. Watch it I going to shout now, ATTACKING PEOPLE WITTING STYLE AND IGNORING THEIR FACTS WOULD SAY A LOT ABOUT YOUR LOGIC. IF YOU DON'T GET GRASSROOTS LOGIC, WHICH WRITTEN IN A SIMPLE EASY WAY, i DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET THE QURAAN WHICH IS WRITTEN IN VERY COMPLECTED LANGUAGE.
Have a good logic otherwise we also won't read your comments anymore, and I know you don't care.

Ifticar,thank You for the lough,I needed it,but I think is called passion and there are some places were we wish the was way more of it,as long as there is no malice,who cares if some need to take it out of there system,always better than being a pressure cooker. GR I like and see very clearly all You say on good days or bad ones,hope it gets better

Grassroots, people who capitalize random words make themselves look overly emotional and irrational not to mention uneducated. If I were walking down the street and encountered some person shouting out random words and otherwise sounding irrational, I would cross the street to avoid them. I do the same thing with your posts. I avoid reading them. If I wanted to subject myself to irrational shouting I would tune in to Keith Olbermann's show.

More CRIMES that we,as a nation are MORALLY and ETHICALLY bound to investigate and PROSECUTE.And WAR CRIMES that our Government is LEGALLY BOUND TO INVESTIGATE an PROSECUTE.Because NOT to do so is to be COMPLICIT in these crimes and forfeit all the tenets of THEIR OATH of Office to the Constitution.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/greenwald-us-bound-treaty-prosecute-t

No man is above the Rule of Law or TREATIES SIGNED.

http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_140314.asp what is going on now?