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Regats: Your comment on Bin Laden vs. Bush is so stupid and uninformed!!!!

steve rodrriguez @ 1:46 PM PST, Dec 26, 2008

The LA Times is suddenly defending the Bush administration declaring it a systemic failure? Nonsense. We tried and punished those individual enlisted U.S. soldiers from Abu Ghraib but we can't possibly punish our leadership? Balderdash! Have a war crimes trial just like at Nuremburg of the congressional committee leaders and White house leaders and staff. We don't need to punish every one just those at the very top.

Pat @ 9:09 AM PST, Dec 26, 2008

I have read most comments here, for one thing to quote Justice Stephens who in Handin V Rumsfeld asked the AG "War what War" when the AG said the United States was at War. Seems that the US Supreme Court may believe that the US is not at war. Makes the Presidents alledged War Powers moot doesn't it. In Hamdin Justice Kennedy also said that the President may have committed War Crimes, for a Supreme Court Justice to say that would mean he thought that there was a Prima Facie Case already.

TheLion @ 8:22 AM PST, Dec 26, 2008

Cover up on 9/11 to present obfuscation of of Criminal liability, the press is the biggest enabler and supporter of administration crimes. Brzezinski's book "The Grande Chessboard" 1999, is a blue print to crime spree, from "Pearl Harbor like event" on 9/11, attack civil rights, "War on Terror" allowing US control of resources and land area of the golden triangle - secret government in control of legal administration - JFK assasination media cover up to Bush crimes - all same

so they can come and get me uh huh? @ 6:50 AM PST, Dec 26, 2008

I will not stand by idly and watch the LA Times deface the President of the United Sates any longer!

Steve Rodriguez @ 9:27 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

I think the security of this country is at stake. Maybe Rummy and Cheney should be sent to Syria for questioning.

Benjamin @ 8:07 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

Could you please tell me in what court where convicted the "Bush administration" of what crime? I thought courts could only convict people, not organizations. Also, I thought that one part of international and national laws was, "innocent until proven guilty." Did that concept go away?

Gary Kirkland @ 6:37 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

It is reassuring that future presidents will be above the laws of the land as the LA Times editorial suggests Bush is. The precedent he has set will allow all kinds of criminal wrong-doing, if they are framed as national security issues. Now Obama or any other president will be free of legal concerns when they breaks laws in the name of saving American lives. And of course national security concerns mean they will never have to prove it, as Bush never has.

Zamm @ 5:34 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

Before anything else the US media, especially those who are now critical of the administration, should offer an apology to the people. The media is guilty of connivance, ignorance, and lack of professional commitment. Let it not happen again!

Sophia @ 5:31 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

The Iraq war is the real crime of this administration. This needs to be investigated by an independent judicial commission, followed by trials. As we know now, the decision to invade Iraq was taken first, and then justification for it was arranged through a sophisticated network of media disinformation, public relations, and cooked intelligence. If taking the US to war on cooked intelligence and deliberate lies and deceptions is not against the law then what is? If the perpetrators of this avoidable and unnecessary war are allowed to get away with their lies and deceptions, it’ll be hard to stop the next gang of adventurers.

Shakil Rai @ 5:05 PM PST, Dec 25, 2008

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