Posted on 02/09/2009 11:13:16 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Senator seeks Bush-era "truth commission" Mon Feb 9, 2009 2:05pm EST
By Randall Mikkelsen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. "truth commission" should probe Bush administration policies including the promotion of war in Iraq, detainee treatment and wiretapping without a warrant, an influential senator proposed on Monday.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called for the commission as way to heal what he called sharp political divides and to prevent future abuses.
He compared it to other truth commissions, such as one in South Africa that investigated the apartheid era.
"We need to come to a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past," Leahy said in a speech to the Georgetown University law school.
"Rather than vengeance, we need a fair-minded pursuit of what actually happened," he said. "And we do that to make sure it never happens again," Leahy said.
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use commie chinese courts as a model
I hope they ‘go there’. It will be a big help come 2010 and 2012 if they do.
Ministry of Truth bump.
Look around--ACORN billions, healthcare snuck into the Porkulus...
Obama is rushing this stimulus thing through in order to seize total control over us all, and total electoral control by the dems in perpetuity.
This is happening very quickly, and we may see a total victory by the dems within a matter of days. Whatever Obama does from that point on, he will have done EVERYTHING the dems want.
Can we have a Clinton era truth commission? I think we need to know what Clinton didn’t do that caused and then allowed 9/11 to happen.
I'm seeing an increase in BDS. As Bambi continues to fail in spectacular ways the left is relying more and more of the argument that "Bush was so bad even Obama can't fix things".
Saddam/Islamic terrorists/anti-American sympathizers in the US Senate......should swing by the neck until.....
Maybe Leahy wants Stalin-era show trials, too
Oh just cut to the bottom line Senator Leahy and start filling the concentration camps with Republican conservatives - they’re already provided for in the Stimulus Bill (where they’re called “emergency centers”).
Spare us the pious crap about a Truth Commission though.
“I hope they ‘go there’. It will be a big help come 2010 and 2012 if they do.”
Me too. War crime trials will blow up in their face big time, especially since Obamugabe is surrendering the WOT and we’re bounkd to be hit soon.
About those “illegal” wire taps that were going on? Why han’t Zero signed an Executive Order stopping them?
That's it. That's the ticket. Persecute your political enemies so that no one will dare to be anything but a Democrat in the future. That will end the political divide.
That will end the political divide.
Actually no it won’t. They are ALL in this together when it comes to the lies they tell. You won’t believe the 9/11 OMISSION lies until you believe lies told years before, and you probably won’t believe those even though they are OBVIOUS. Americans have been programed NOT TO THINK without permission.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_kIDP4EQ0
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, called for the commission as way to heal what he called sharp political divides and to prevent future abuses... "We need to come to a shared understanding of the failures of the recent past," Leahy said in a speech to the Georgetown University law school.Y'know, because if there's one thing Leahy knows something about, it's failure.
The Socialists are playing for keeps. To them, they are not going to lose another election.
Smokescreen.
This is spooky. It reminds me of Stalin’s show trials of the late 30’s, used to quell dissent after the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. The historical parallels are disconcerting.
They need a bad guy. Without an enemy, the masses will begin to look at them and their policies. We know this so called stimulus package will not help, so they are figuring they better line up a distraction for the media and the other Obamabots.
What better enemy then the ex-President? He has been demonized for eight years by a liberal press and he no longer has the power to do anything to protect himself. This is classic Marxist redirection via a show trial. It is also disgusting and unAmerican.
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