Why I agree with President Obama that the Bush Co cabal should not be prosecuted.

[JHB]

18. We've already tried your method. Our reward was the Bush Administration

Bill Clinton did "look forward not back" version 1.0. Thorough investigations of potentially dozens of Reagan-Bush shady actions and connections could have been made, finally without the subjects of the investigations in a position to obstruct access to information.

That action wasn't on Clinton's radar screen. He wanted to avoid the same thing you do, a tit-for-tat partisan prosecution complex.

He got one anyway, only it was one-sided. And the the neocons who eventually made up the Bush Cabal had their roles tacitly approved. "We did nothing wrong."

Conservatives have spent the last two Democratic presidencies foaming over mostly horseshit (and if you look closely, it goes a lot father back). Whereas most of our anger at Republican administrations have been over real abuses of power.

You're not going to get the safeguards until it starts costing the people responsible.

You may think you're advocating breaking the cycle, but that doesn't work when one side still wants blood. They've wanted a Democratic head on a pike since Nixon, and at this point they've even forgotten why. Or invented new, more satisfying rationalizations.

I'll leave off now. I have to go anyway, and I'm trying very hard not to make Munich analogies.