In spite of Obama wanting to look forward rather than backwards, I'm saying an investigation of the Bush Administration is going to happen. The media is starting to put together the missing links. Cheney is speaking way too much. And it's gonna get ugly because coming to terms with one of the most corrupt administrations since Nixon won't be fun.
According to CNN, Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for then-Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote that the Bush interrogation program began in April and May of 2002, and Cheney's team kept an eye on questioning. "Its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda," Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal.
This is worse than Watergate and Cheney is looking a lot like Nixon. Bush, who has remained strangely quiet likely under advice of his lawyer, is looking like a poor dupe who allowed this insanity to move forward thinking he would be remembered as an heroic president. Instead, Bush is the misguided and naive zealot who bought into and condoned a deception that led us into Iraq under a false pretense.
It's very possible that as these investigations proceed forward, many Bushies will end up in prison. And if that happens, you are going to see open political warfare in America between the Democrats and the far right (Republicans). Very sad, but I say let the chips fall as they may. This is a cleansing that America needs to go through. And if it's any consolation, all these Bushies will be hiring big time lawyers and that will bankrupt many of them.
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