Posted on 08/06/2008 7:33:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
One thing that hasn't received much attention in conservative and Republicans circles is the ongoing conversation on the left about the possibility of Nuremberg-style war-crimes trials for members of the Bush administration should a Democratic president take office. I'm not exaggerating or introducing the Nazi analogy myself; they actually use the phrase "Nuremberg-style" when they discuss "war-crimes tribunals." And they are quite serious (although the more moderate of them prefer a "truth commission.")
At the Netroots Nation gathering in Austin, Texas last month that is the successor to YearlyKos Dahlia Lithwick, of the Washington-Post-owned website Slate, did an interview with the Talking Points Memo site in which she described a panel discussion she had just taken part in on what is known as the "first 100 days of accountability." Among Lithwick's observations:
We're already falling into this trap of either positing Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunals, or nothing, immunizing everyone from John Yoo up and down but everybody says there's a lot of gray area in between that, and that accountability doesn't necessarily mean Nuremberg, it doesn't necessarily mean nothing, it means possibly a truth commission, possibly appointing a special prosecutor to look at it
Lithwick recommended a massive retrospective investigation of the Bush administration, going through every piece of paper, before moving forward:
Certainly long before we make a decision to do what Stuart Taylor suggested this week, which was immunize everybody in advance, or alternatively make a decision to trot them out before a war crimes tribunal before the whole world, we should really find out what happened
But Lithwick recognized that there are those who argue such an action might be divisive:
We talked a lot about this notion that it's bad for America, that it will rip America apart if we have hearings or we have criminal trials or if we have war crimes tribunals. And I think it's really worse for America if we don't
I think the thing to emphasize here is that this is a serious conversation going on among people who might have influential voices or play influential roles in an Obama administration. Many of them want to put John Yoo a special favorite of theirs on trial, whether before a Nuremberg-style tribunal, a criminal court, or a truth commission with as-yet unspecified powers. And, of course, they wouldn't stop with Yoo; if they had their way, they would likely have a long list of former Bush administration officials to put in the dock. They are serious.
The left seems to love Nurmberg Style.
http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=264568
Federal Office of the Environment and Public Works has released this statement:
NUREMBERG-STYLE TRIALS PROPOSED FOR GLOBAL WARMING SKEPTICS
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I suppose it might be “divisive” to hang all these left-wing traitors — but can we just send them all to colonize the Moon?
Just imagine the upshot of this. Just imagine the former (true) independents sending post cards to their former lefty friends.
“Just Joined the Republican Party. Glad you aren’t here!”
Jusy imagine a liberal potty in decline!
Nope. Not till January 20, 2009.
The fellow now in office ain't lame.
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There's something very Venezuelan about today's left in America. They have their claws so deeply into America, it may take 20 years of an American Pinochet to rid us of them. I'm not sure our republic has the ability to shake them off in its current form.
The problem is more serious than that; neither party wants the truth released. So you are sitting there, naked to the world, considering whether to invest in gold or the dollar or oil? Who won the last two years? Price of oil? Price of Gold? — Duh? Suck it up.
If that happens, we need to take the opportunity to eradicate Liberalism once and forever, no matter what it takes.
At least if it’s McCain there won’t be any Nuremberg style show trials of patriotic members of the Bush Administration.
If this happens, the time HAS come for real Americans to gather together with our guns and start shooting these sonsabitchs.
I’m only half kidding.
What Rumsfeld will say if they come for him.
I sure do miss him, he had a knack for completely driving the moonbats crazy.
“At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, “Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois (January 27, 1838), p. 109.
It is a great quote, my friend.
I have that scrap of text saved in my archives for reference...thanks for posting it.
Rome could do neither and fell. We're going to have to find the courage to face the remedies we need to rid ourselves of those who wish to destroy America. Soon.
More than half of the American population has decided that we can have whatever we vote for, no questions asked. Hell, more than half the people on this forum can't even define what it is they want to conserve!
That's some mighty scary stuff right there.
So, I'll quite reluctantly pull the lever for McCain and pretend it'll matter somehow in the long run.
It won't.
We've bought and paid for the fall that's coming. All I can do is try to prepare my son for what's coming.
And that really sucks.
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2 years, wazzat I missed?
Yah know... we should BE so lucky that they’d try something like this. The actual FACTS of the Bush doctrine and the war on terror, including the war in Iraq... are compelling. As President Bush said... Bring. It. On.
I dare’s ya.
So... In your opinion, when was the last time a “true” conservative was nominated for President? Has it ever really happened?
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