about prosecuting Bush officials for war crimes for 'torture'

[Ithaca-37]

Hints of this possibility, whether from the Congress and/or from new Justice Department officials, has been all over the news in recent days.  And for good reason, because this is a new step for America, right in line with despotic governments all over the world and throughout time:  criminalizing the political decisions of the preceding government.  Or you can look at it a second way:  If you jail government officials for being mistaken and/or foolish, then you better build a lot of jails.

And now to the gist of my post, which I put out here for open discussion:  Obama is transparently determined to expose the tactics used to-date in the 'War on Terror'.  So, that means that he's either a Manchurian candidate, or (my opinion) just a naive boy who believes that groveling impresses the enemies of civilization.

But I have yet to hear nor read an obvious question about this thinking from Obama:  The United States is publicly repudiating effective methods of interrogation, so what happens politically in this nation if the Muslims make a huge terrorist hit in the United States during Obama's administration?  It seems obvious to me that we would be facing a stark Constitutional crisis, with the president accused (and rightly so) of dereliction of duty in his role as Commander-in-Chief.

Has anybody on this board seen this thinking noted among any of the Beltway Brainiacs?

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[cjd]

What you are seeing in the White House is typical of black society. You have a dejected dumb [censored] who finally made it to the top the only way he ever could and that's with the help of evil subversive left leaning Liberal animals. He now owes them big time and sees nothing wrong with what they are asking for him to enact. In a way its payback to white America for taking his black ancestors out of the darkest of Africa. The Liberal left hated the Bush administration because he prevented the very thing that they wanted to see and that was the destruction of America. Even with a Liberal majority in both houses the administration managed to keep Liberals sidelined. Liberals have been chomping to get their claws into the Bush administration on this issue for years now. The shvartza President will facilitate them getting their way and in the process endanger all of America. Fox News has been speaking out on this and Glen Beck is very outspoken on the issue.

[RationalThought110]

George Soros is involved so you should be opposed to what Obama is doing.

However, if the conflict between the supporters and opponents of this conflict--whether the documents should have been releasd-- maybe RINOS like Arlen Spector, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe chould be convinced to stop supporting Obama's agenda.

[ag337]

Simple solution.
 
When a problem is present that requires the same interrogation methods employed by the Bush Administration, Obama is going to have to put on his big boy pants and take the same
punishment that he wishes to pass on the Bush Administration.

And, if he is not willing to do so, than he should drop the entire issue of interrogation methods used by the Bush Administration, because if not, he needs to be ready to answer whatever may come his way during his tenure.