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Fancy idea, how about power to the people... (feddit.org)

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Obama was specifically referring to having no desire to prosecute W, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz for their egregious war crimes and lying to the American people to begin a war for plundering oil in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Given OP’s context of subverting justice for the sake of moving on, I find it extremely relevant.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago

Interesting to work through the counterfactual on that. A lot of people seem to forget how the early Tea Party started. An awful lot of them pretended that they weren't the same people supporting GWB all along.

So what happens if Obama does decide to prosecute members of the former admin? Does the Tea Party keep the ruse, or do they go to bat for them? How does that affect the outcome in the 2010 midterms?

Perhaps it would have made the Tea Party's astroturfing more apparent to everyone.