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Originally Posted by powerclown
What criminals?
I never called Teddy Kennedy, Harry Reid, Carl Levin or John Kerry a criminal, nor would I. I would call them "Politicians."
Fair enough. Feel free to Fight the Man anytime the impulse strikes. It doesn't even have to have any basis in fact. First Amendment, Free Will, Freedom to Dissent, etc.
I provide sources and simply give my opinion. With all due respect, if this isn't good enough for you, 1) Don't read it, 2) Don't respond to it, 3) Google the info yourself. But you won't find what you don't want to know about.
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Lemme see....what day is it? Here are today's accusations of war crimes that <b>"would not have been possible if there hadn't been aggressive war"...</b>
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001434514
<b>More Fodder for Press: Wilkerson Charges Cheney Responsible for Prisoner Abuse</b>
By E&P Staff
Published: November 04, 2005 2:30 PM ET
NEW YORK His initial blast, on Oct. 19, at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. drew wide press attention. Now Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, is at it again. In an interview for National Public Radio <b>he charged that Vice President Cheney's office--and new chief aide David Addingtoon--was responsible for directives which led to U.S soldiers abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.</b>
Wilkerson said he had some hard evidence: a trail of memos and directives authorizing questionable detention practices up through Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's office directly to Cheney's staff. The directives, he said, contradicted a 2002 order by President Bush for the military to abide by the Geneva Convention rules against torture.
The former Powell aide, in his October statements, declared that Cheney and Rumsfeld operated a "cabal" that had hijacked U.S. foreign and military policy.
Now, talking to NPR, he said, "There was a visible audit trail from the Vice President's office through the Secretary of Defense, down to the commanders in the field," authorizing practices that led to the abuse of detainees.”
He said that Powell had assigned him to investigate this after stories emerged about U.S troops abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was “privy to the paperwork, both classified and unclassified, that the secretary of State asked me to assemble on how this all got started.”
Wilkerson called Addington "a staunch advocate of allowing the president in his capacity as commander-in-chief to deviate from the Geneva Conventions."
The former Powell aide is 31-year military veteran and former director of the Marine Corps War College. Some have noted that he often expresses what Colin Powell believes, but can't or won't say.
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Cheney cannot be indicted until he is impeached. He cannot be impeached unless congress authorizes an investigation to determine if there is evidence to justify an impeachment investigation. You have to avoid voting for candidates for congressional office who are uninterested in checking the power of the executive branch.
powerclown, for the third time, I am requesting that you answer this question:
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Please direct me to a comparable example of even handed examination of mistakes that republican political leaders have made, or where demands were made to admit and apologize for mistakes?
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The question above has to do with Mr. Pitt's frank and unapologetic discussion and opinion of democrats who voted for the resolution to permit Mr. Bush to go to war with Iraq if he deemed it a necessity to do so.