You can thank the Mainstream Media for that one.

They did the same thing with Mc Cain that they did with Obama.

The people no longer choose the candidates. The media does.

If you're so independent, then why is Obama not guilty for continuing the wars?

Accessory to murder still gets you ten to twenty. Doesn't make you any less guilty.

I don't think it has anything to do with being guilty or not...more like incompetent or don't know what to do. Many fail to realize the power of the world financial banks, markets, special interest groups, weapon business, etc...
USA is pretty much controlled by corporations, the president (or the congress) is just an official figure "a representation" without any real power, because the special interest lobbies got so powerful that they can make or break a president within days.

The faster you realize this the better.

Totally agree. It just pisses me off when someone will condemn a Republican but completely support a Democrat for the same thing (or vice versa - obviously, the republican doing wrong side is more applicable now).

just wonedering what war crime cheney has been convicted of that can fairly suggest that he's a war criminal. i don't want the sob in office either but at least i use fairmindedness in coming to my conclusions and not media and political sound bites. jeez people. you complain about a powerful two party system and then align yourselves with one of the two parties. you're feeding the monster.

it's interesting how some people base all their opinions on what they are fed from their favorite extremist web sites

doesn't inspire a shred of confidence for me in the ability of the American people to run their own country

yes indeed and the founders lacked that confidence as well. hense, we have a representative republic and an electoral college. can't imagine some of the mentalities i see here actually having a say in who'll be the leader of the free world. yeow.

I feel the same way. It's always been this way, though. Before websites, it was TV shows, radio shows, magazines, newspapers, and so on. People are dumber and more ignorant than ever (in my experience). Fortunately, the framers of the constitution didn't give us a democracy, but a republic. Can you imagine how bad things were be if every major decision was up for a vote?

I would argue that a part of our problems is how the constitution breaks down more and more as time goes on. Moving away from the constitutional republic towards mass democracy has given too much influence to the least qualified people (the Federal Government and the unwashed masses).

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I'm SORRY DON'T YOU LIKE FREEDOM OF CHOICE .. ITS THERE PARTY AND YOU CAN CHANGE IT BY JOINING IT . NOT BY TELLING IT WHAT YOU WANT . THEY DON'T CARE

You people are all over the place with your "truthiness" and denial of the obvious...torture is illegal. Chainy et.al ordered torture. Case closed...well I'd like closure with justice in a trail and the imprisonment of the criminals that tainted our reputations in the world...and what about the victims?

PS: once again Focks is NOT a news network!

http://www.progressive.org/wx032409.html

"President Obama needs to tell Attorney General Eric Holder to indict Dick Cheney, right now, for war crimes.

Just look at the statute, Title 18 of the U.S. Criminal Code, Section 2441. It says that someone is guilty of a war crime if he or she commits a “grave breach of common Article 3” of the Geneva Conventions. And then it defines what a grave breach would be.

One such breach is torture, or the conspiracy to commit torture, which Cheney was clearly in on, as when he repeatedly defended waterboarding and talked about the need to go to the “dark side” Here’s the language from the statute: “The act of a person who commits, or conspires to commit, an act specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering . . . upon another person within his custody or physical control for the purpose of obtaining information or a confession, punishment, intimidation, coercion, or any reason based on discrimination of any kind.”

Another grave breach is “cruel or inhuman treatment,” or the conspiracy to inflict such treatment. Again, Cheney was supervising such treatment in the White House, which would qualify as committing this crime. One time, it got so ghoulish that Attorney General John Ashcroft asked the other principals, “Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.”

Here’s the language on “cruel or inhuman treatment”: “The act of a person who commits, or conspires or attempts to commit, an act intended to inflict severe or serious physical or mental pain or suffering . . . including serious physical abuse, upon another within his custody or control.”

An additional breach is “mutilation or maiming.” Since some detainees say they no longer have the complete functioning of arms or limbs, Cheney may be on the hook here, too. “The act of a person who intentionally injures, or conspires or attempts to injure, or injures whether intentionally or unintentionally in the course of committing any other offense under this subsection, one or more persons . . . by disfiguring the person or persons by any mutilation thereof or by permanently disabling any member, limb or organ of his body, without any legitimate medical or dental purpose.”

“Intentionally causing serious bodily harm” is yet another grave breach. The statute defines this as: “The act of a person who intentionally causes, or conspires or attempts to cause, serious bodily injury to one or more persons, including lawful combatants, in violation of the law of war.”

For each of these offenses, Cheney could receive life in prison, according to the statute.

That is where he belongs."

Who in the Republican Party is without blame?
I'm still waiting on Cheney and Bush to be brought to trial.
Maybe one day.

Obama's hands are full of innocent people's blood from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan . He is following the dark path of his precedent G.W. Bush . In the near future we shall not be able to differentiate between the two .

LMAO
Bush ignored the war against those who attacked us.
You cant give him much of anything when Afghanistan is involved. Except maybe that he let Bin Laden get away when we had a chance of capturing him.

I just wished he start drafting some of these ride-the-wagon patriots we have.
It should be every Americans sacrifice. Not just the truly patriotic's. The Volunteers!

neither party is innocent and american buy into this dog and pony show but it just kills me when some neocon plays amnesia when it comes to the bush admin's crimes or UN violations at best.

How many people can continue to ride and reep the benefits obtained through the blood of the few, and for how long?

Draft!

You gonna be first in line to sign up??

Or are you in the service already??

If not...why not??

You wanna have everyone else get drafted...you should have already volunteered.

Any man who stands in a foxhole next to another, can not come home and look down his nose at that man because he is poorer or richer.

Nor can he enjoy the rights we in this country enjoy without appreciation.

Draft!

Again. Are you now, or have you been in the military??

If not....then march down to the nearest recruiting center and sign up.

I've been there and done that!
7 yrs active, E-5, Sgt, 11B ( US Infantry)