It's the most exclusive club membership in existence...
All of us, who aren't prey to the political realities of, can afford to demand that Obama stick his neck out to punish Bush. But look at Obama himself.
He knows that if he were to try to make an example of Bush, the tables could eventually turn and one of his possible winger, birther successors could go out of their way to make an example out of them.
Not to mention the practical considerations of investing a lot of time, effort and political capital at going after someone that roughly half the country supported, not just once but twice.
Of course, I'd rather have Bush and his cronies under a prison. But I'm not naive enough to think that any president, who sane, who gives a shit about his or her legacy and has more priorities on a plate that I could ever fathom is ever going to go out the way to settle old scores... Settling old scores is EXACTLY how it's going to be portrayed and that will ultimately be the downfall of any president who'll do what you demand.
Again, I say that the best and most effect way of going after Bush is THROUGH Congress.
Yes, they'll have to deal with their own complicity at allowing Bush's lies to authorize his crimes, but as was shown during Watergate, the Congress is perfectly free to go after the Executive Branch.
Before Ford pardoned Nixon, I wonder if he would have wanted to go a different direction if he were in Congress still.
Asking presidents to go after their predecessors in this country has always been and will continue to be non-starters.
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