Chris Floyd: In 2009, expect "healing national wounds", "coming together again", "moving on."

[seafan]

And it is damned depressing.



By Chris Floyd
November 9, 2007

.....At his Harper's blog, Scott Horton demonstrates how the architects of George W. Bush's filthy torture regimen are now holding positions that allow them to protect themselves and their masters from the legal consequences of their actions. ..... And yet these sinister wretches -- blood caked all over their thousand-dollar suits -- are still treated, even respected, as the legitimate custodians of the constitutional Republic they have brutally defiled. .....the only honorable and self-respecting thing an legislator could do in these degraded times is simply to say of every single nominee offered up by the blood-caked suits: "Anyone who would agree to work with this criminal enterprise is automatically unfit to hold office, whatever other qualifications they may have."


Oh, but the Democrats are being cagey, we are told; they're being savvy, being tactical. They're holding their fire, playing it cool, not wanting to appear divisive or partisan, just waiting for the presidency to fall back into their hands in 2008. And then, and then....
Then what? The Democratic nominee looks certain to be Hillary Clinton -- whose husband buried a whole boatload of previous Bush crimes after he took office in 1993, as Robert Parry reports in his book, Secrecy and Privilege. If Clinton I had allowed justice to pursue the various Bush I scandals to the end, we would have been spared the hideous, murderous farce of Bush II's reign. The name of Bush would have been so rightly tainted that L'il Pretzel would never have gotten anywhere near close enough to steal the 2000 election. Is there anyone who believes that Clinton II would pursue Bush II's manifold crimes any more diligently than her husband?

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No mainstream Democrat will ever allow full-fledged criminal investigations and prosecutions of Bush II officials for torture and the war crime of military aggression. You know and I know that's not going to happen. We will get, at most, some soaring rhetoric about "healing national wounds" and "coming together again" and "moving on." (With the outside possibility of a few small fry being offered up as sacrifices, to let the Dem president preen as the "restorer of the rule of law" -- and also purge the Republicans, and Bush, of the worst taint: "Hey, it was a few bad apples, and now they're gone. We've got a clean slate!")

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And let us at last be done with the fatal pretense that what we are witnessing today in the war of aggression and the torture program are some kind of aberration, the result of "bad apples" in the White House and Pentagon. .....
It's not just Mukasey. It's not just Haynes. It's not just Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rove (or Hillary or Bill). It is the all-pervasive system that is crushing us. Or as another writer once put it:

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.