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Never get in the way of a perfectly good train wreck.
With the Big Dickster mouthing off high and low on the MSM about how groovy his torture tactics were in protecting the U.S., he's basically making post-facto, public admissions of his and BushCo's guilt as war criminals. The Obama Administration is well aware that the International legal community as represented by Spain is beginning to investigate, and in all likelihood will indict and try the lower hanging fruitcakes, e.g. Yoo, Gonzo, Feith, etc. in absentia first, then Sick Dicko and Dubya later, and its findings will be made known within a year or two, and the U.S. will at some point inevitably receive official notice, probably from the International Court of Justice in the Hague, that it is harboring these indicted war criminals, at which point Obama can go on TV and say, "Hey guys, its not me who wants to try the BushCo criminals, its our allies, and so there is nothing I can do but to take the high road and appoint a Federal SP (even money it's Patty Fitzgerald?) to look into it and investigate it ourselves", thus washing his hands of the matter. In the meantime, for the next year or so, Darth Cheney can go around all he wants and blather and provide de facto admissions of guilt; further hoisting his sick, twisted, psycho fat ass up by his proverbial petard. He will soon find out the truth that, as FDR's 2nd VP once observed, that "being the Vice President isn't worth a bucket of warm spit!" goes twice as much for ex-Vice Presidents.
But here is where the Chicago part comes into it: Cheney and Bush know that the sword is hanging over their heads, and Obama knows they know it, and he knows they know he knows; and as long as the latter takes no action, the other two can't lead secret coups and cabals against him as they are, in effect, pariahs to everyone including to most of the reactionary stall-warts of the Whigpublican party, if not to their troglodyte fan base; and they can thus gain little or no sympathy from the Reich wing noise machine and the Reich wing can not now make political hay before the mid-term elections out of what would be an immense uproar they could create were Obama to go after BushCo while he's got bigger fish to fry, so to speak. So while it may look to those not from Chicago that Obama and Rahm are protecting the BushCo war criminals, they in fact are fully aware that the BushCo boys aren't going to get un-guiltier with time; they know that the Spanish prosecutor's train is leaving the station, and that it will barrel down the tracks nicely without any effort on their part, and provide them with the perfect opportunity to hang these bastards down the road at a much more convenient time without losing much in the way of political capital, while providing the Administration with the time and space it needs right now to deal with the pressing populist issues such as jobs and the economy (and the mid-term votes that success in turning the economy around will provide to House and Senate Democrats). Obama knows Bush and Cheney will face their day in court, if not this year, then probably right after he gains fillibuster proof Congressional majorities after November, 2010; and he also knows he doesn't have to lift a finger before then while the Spaniards do the heavy lifting and pile on the coal and steam for him. Yes, inevitably the Obama Administration will take a political hit internationally, but tough Merde. Malfeasance in not prosecuting suspected war criminals (and they are only suspect until the Spanish or International Courts actually indict them) is a relative traffic misdemeanor compared to capital war crimes. So America ends up looking like even bigger bastards than the rest of the world truly knows us to be. But last I looked, the world doesn't vote in U.S. or Chicago elections. Yes, morally it stinks like the South Side Stockyards, but hey, welcome to Chicago.
One more thing: it took the Israelis 16 years to find, try, and hang Eichmann, and 50 years for the U.S. to expel John Demjanjuk; so really, there is no statute of limitations on war crimes. Patience, good people; justice soon come.
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