Wash Post: Demanding Accountability for the Distortions (read this!)

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Colbert I. King says that simply voting Bush out is not enough; Bush should be prosecuted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56504-2004Jul16?language=printer

Naomi Lewis, if convicted, faces up to five years behind bars for possession of a weapon on school property. Not that she intentionally brought the rifle and ammunition to Bull Run Middle School in Prince William County, where she's a cafeteria worker. But she realized her son had brought them to school when she heard something rattling around in the back of her van as they arrived at the building. Instead of taking the weapons home, she locked the van and went into the school. Her son later used a key she didn't know he had to open the van, retrieve several weapons and then barge into a school office with a loaded gun, ordering everyone onto the floor. He was arrested and, thank goodness, no one was injured. But Lewis's case is going before a grand jury next month because authorities believe she should be held accountable for her actions or inaction.

Theodore J. Gordon has worked in the D.C. health department for 31 years, and he says there's nothing negative in his personnel file. But he was placed on administrative leave last week and given a termination letter effective Aug. 6. The city won't say why Gordon was fired, but officials say the agency has serious problems and that changes needed to be made. Gordon, who was in charge of the environmental health division, apparently was being held accountable for something that he did or failed to do.

That's the way the system works. When something that could affect the public interest goes astray, someone, we are told, should be held accountable.

Which begs the question, where is the accountability for Iraq?

I raised this question on the "Inside Washington" show last weekend, and one of my colleagues responded: "It's called the presidential election. You can vote him out."

But does that do the trick?
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[Wilber_Stool]

1. If " * " is ever charged with anything,

do you think he will be charged as an adult?

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2. If not, can we spank him?

[Hoping4Change]

3. Why wasn't that thinking extended to Clinton?

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4. Perhaps the writer was pressed for space...

I know, H4C, I know...what can ya do?

[Hoping4Change]

10. I think the one good thing that has come from these last 4 years

is that all this crap from the media on up has been so exposed. I liken it to a blind pimple that hadn't yet broken the skin's surface.
Events over the last four years has forced the pimple to break the surface and the pus is oozing out for all to see.

[ItsThePeopleStupid]

5. the price of cynicism

Something happened after Watergate, it seems to me. People became much more cynical about their government. If you look at polls, the majority people believe * exaggerated or lied about the WMDs. But in a way, they expect that from their leaders. We should be outraged, in effect be saying 'this is not acceptable--you don't lie to us, especially about going to war.'

So, we wind up kind of accepting that behavior thus laying the groundwork for more of the same.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. We should be outraged at the outrage about the outrage!

Or...something...
/joke

[ItsThePeopleStupid]

8. don't let this happen to you!

Above: Flauman has trouble mustering outrage over Republican policy.
WASHINGTON, DC—According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation's liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.

"With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it's simply too daunting for the average, left-leaning citizen to maintain a sense of anger," said Rachel Neas, the study's director. "By our estimation, roughly 70 percent of liberals are experiencing some degree of lethargy resulting from a glut of civil-liberties abuses, education funding cuts, and exorbitant military expenditures."

San Francisco's Arthur Flauman is one liberal who has chosen to take a hiatus from his seething rage over Bush Administration policies.

"Every day, my friends send me e-mails exposing Bush's corrupt environmental policies," said Flauman, a member of both the Green Party and the Sierra Club. "I used to spend close to an hour following all the links, and I'd be shocked and outraged by the irreversible damage being done to our land. At some point, though, I got annoyed with the demanding tone of the e-mails. The Clear Skies Initiative is bogus, but I'm not going to forward a six-page e-mail to all my friends—especially one written by a man who signs his name 'Leaf.' Now, if a message's subject line contains the word 'Bush,' it goes straight into the trash."
http://www.onion.com/news/index.php?issue=4027&n=3&id=3706

[Hoping4Change]

9. I saw that too. Isn't it brilliant? I think I practically died laughing.

[Fridays Child]

7. Kick

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