Reply #119: I'm sorry, but you're WAY over the top.

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Nancy Pelosi isn't a Nazi. She's a married mother and member of Congress - she's not a gangster or outlaw. Acting like she is going to run off to South America and have to be hunted down is tinfoil hat stuff. Get a grip! I don't particularly love or hate Pelosi and I think she made a mistake saying impeachment was off the table, but I've explained why I believe she did that. I can see that there is a lot of anger towards her at DU, but we need to keep our heads.

I understand being outraged. I've felt that way since the 2000 election and it's only gotten worse. I knew GWB would be an awful President, but I never could have imagined the things he and his administation did in my wildest nightmares. But being extreme damages our credibility.

We don't know what Pelosi knew, when she knew it or how much she understood about what the Bush Admin meant by "Enhanced Interrogation". We DO KNOW that that administration deliberatly set about war crimes and even used their legal dept to pre-justify it. Now if I were I member of Congress, I would assume (at least at first) that the POTUS would respect international and US law. It's not far-fetched to think that Pelosi believed they wouldn't cross that line. Honestly, who would have thought any President would go this far?

I believe members of the Bush Admin are quilty of war crimes. At worst, Pelosi and others *might* be quilty of keeping quiet and if they knew, not performing their duty in Congress. Even now, how much of what they know or what went down is classified?

I really believe that the Republicans are playing the media and many Democrats like a fiddle right now. Instead of talking about what Bush and his cronies authorized, we're talking about what 1 Democrat knew about their crimes.