Pres. Obama is hoping that we're goddamn idiots out here, still cowed by talk of 9-11

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210. I don't think so, but who knows?

I think the spectacle of an incoming administration pursuing war crimes prosecutions for military and security officials would have immediately become one of the most bitter, partisan, and all-consuming political battles of my lifetime. And considering the backdrop against which this would take place -- an economy on the edge of falling into a irreversible downward spiral and a military fighting in two full-scale foreign wars, I'm saying I can at least reluctantly understand the decisions that were made.

I think it's very likely that the pursuit of war crimes prosecutions would have come at the cost of no health care reform, no Recovery Act, and none of the other things that were accomplished between 2010 and 2012.

And I have the opposite estimation from yours over where sentiment of the American public would have fallen. Rally around the flag, boys. I think it would have been complete and utter electoral catastrophe for the Democratic Party. The "inconvenient truth", I believe, is that the American public at large is much further right than DU, and I think that poll after poll, especially on questions of national security, bear this out.

I rallied, marched, wrote letters, and sent donations to impeach and prosecute the war criminals. It still makes me mad and probably will until my dying day, but I'm not about to abandon my support for the only meaningful opposition to the right-wing GOP over it.