As soon as President-elect Obama uttered to George Stephanopoulos last Sunday, "I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards," I knew that the entire ugly criminal mess of the Bush Administration never properly will be investigated, let alone see the prosecution of its perpetrators. Krugman, it's already over.
Of course Krugman gets to the very most salient point of the entire Bush criminality:
And then there was the biggest scandal of all: Does anyone seriously doubt that the Bush administration deliberately misled the nation into invading Iraq?Sure, it's obvious. President Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in the "Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances." That my friends, is called a Crime Against Peace.
The evidence is damning, just hit the "Iraq" category at this blog and hundreds of others to find truckloads of such evidence.
But International Law is hollow on this point. From the first day since the 1950 Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal were adopted by the U.N., the U.S. never has been for one moment restrained when it has taken a decision to engage in Aggression. There never has been an authority strong enough to bring a meaningful case. The World Court, for example, was mocked by the Reagan government when it ruled against the Aggression the U.S. committed in mining Nicaragua's harbors during the 1980s.
I can't say for sure that all of the Bush insults to humanity will be swept under the rug. I just think they will be. Obama officials, like A.G. Eric Holder, will have their hands full and seriously will be disinclined to fight the Republican backlash and howls of "partisanship." This point is attacked by Krugman. Unfortunately I fear the result of leaving the past unpunished will be open doors to more official crime. When those happen, how will the "future" Obama speaks of look to us?
Posted by The Owl at 11:49. Filed under: Power and accountability
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