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In reply to the discussion: Bush Joins Bid to Block Senate Release of CIA Torture Report [View all]onwardsand upwards
(276 posts)12. There is no difference!
On substantive issues, anyway.
The Democratic and Republican wings of the Corporate Party work together -- the good cop and the bad cop.
To hope that the Democratic wing will, somehow, bring its Republican brethren to justice is just a naive pipe-dream.
This will be a whitewash -- like the Warren Commission, the 9/11 Commission, the Hutton inquiry Report, etc., etc., etc., ...
Bush's protest is just for show ... enjoy the show!
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we are not a signatory to that agreement so they wont be going to the hague
belzabubba333
Dec 2014
#9
Yeah, but we've got a President that believes in "Looking Forward, not Looking Backwards"
dirtydickcheney
Dec 2014
#34
Why believe ANYTHING this serial liar and sociopath says??? Including 9/11...
blkmusclmachine
Dec 2014
#31
I support waiting until after the Iran deal. Why rock the boat on something as important as the
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#10
How would releasing this report affect our negotiations with Iran? I don't get it.
Comrade Grumpy
Dec 2014
#15
Oh FFS, the CIA has nothing on Iran. You want to know about torture, talk to someone who has faced
okaawhatever
Dec 2014
#39
Iran is running ops right now (WITH the US) confronting ISIL. Have some of you been
blm
Dec 2014
#45
Plenty of people will die in future over the years of what bush admin started. report or none.
Sunlei
Dec 2014
#81
Now is anyone here really surprised that they want to block it? I mean really?
cstanleytech
Dec 2014
#6
We all know they are guilty they even admit it. I would love to see them indicted.
santamargarita
Dec 2014
#16
They are afraid of the international outcry against them. So be it. You make your bed; you lie
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#35
Even though he regrets nothing about the Iraq war, he still wants to keep secrets?
mountain grammy
Dec 2014
#38
Torture is only one of the many crimes committed by the Bush Administration.
Enthusiast
Dec 2014
#42