Last week, was, well, depressing

First off, Cheney admitted to being a war criminal. I commend him on his new-found honesty. Unfortunately, no one is going to do a blasted thing about it. He admitted to doing torture - waterboarding specifically - and that is in violation of the Geneva Convention. He admitted that the White House told the DOJ lawyers to authorize torture. Or maybe the word is 'pressured' the DOJ. Hard to tell, but it looks to me like it was pretty easy to get the Bush DOJ to write those memos.

And on Friday, the Obama DOJ decided that those memos showed poor judgment, but were not illegal. So, those torture memo writers are off the hook. As are the people who tortured.

And torture continues under Obama.

The onslaught of Marjah in Afghanistan really got cranked up. Lots more dead civilians, and even more injured, ill, and homeless civilians. This is beyond disgusting.

There apparently is no law in the USA anymore, except MIGHT MAKES RIGHT.

So, which is worse (h/t to a commenter on Chris Floyd's blog):

"War is a challenge to law, and the law must adjust." Judge Janice Rogers Brown -- U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit. 2010

"In times of war, breach of loyalty and baseness cannot find any leniency and must be met with the full force of the law." Roland Freisler -- Secretary of State, Reich Ministry of Justice. 1939


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Well, that's a tough one.

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And then there was the final report on the Anthrax killings, which turns out to be a cover up. There are so many loopholes in that official FBI story, and our legislature is too scared to really investigate. Well, they have reason to be scared. Whoever was behind it tried to kill some of them and the perps are still alive.

And then there is that little problem of ABC News reporting that they had several sources inside Ft. Dix who said that the anthrax came from Iraq. Those anonymous sources will never be identified, and they work at the same place that the anthrax really came from.

Looks like one more massive crime by some group of folks in the US government who will get away with their crimes. Meanwhile, they will keep on torturing, kidnapping, raping, stuffing people into secret prisons, and assassinating innocent people.

JUST LOVELY.