And he renewed the PATRIOT act, continued to use GITMO for illegal detention, and posthumously decided any male civilians killed by his drone strikes were actually combatants for reasons of because we want them to be.
The real brain damage is pretending that a few differences completely negate the absolute mass of similarities and continuity between the two administrations.
And Obama could have tried to prosecute Bush for that! He chose not to. He chose to double down in Afghanistan. His administration gave a shiny liberal seal of approval to all the authoritarian advances made by Bush, rather than dismantle it. And now we have Trump taking advantage of those very same policies!
There is no end to the number of people who could have tried to prosecute Bush, but placing the responsibility on their direct political rivals is just idiocy. No politician should be pursuing the imprisonment or trial of their competitors, even if you agree that the competitor did commit horrible crimes, it should be somebody else’s responsibility.
The DOJ falls under the remit of the executive. If a former president were to be charged for their crimes, the sitting president would necessarily be involved.
I suppose a charge could come from UN court of justice and ha lol like our leaders would ever allow that precedent to get set
And he renewed the PATRIOT act, continued to use GITMO for illegal detention, and posthumously decided any male civilians killed by his drone strikes were actually combatants for reasons of because we want them to be.
The real brain damage is pretending that a few differences completely negate the absolute mass of similarities and continuity between the two administrations.
“A few differences” to the admin that fucking manufactured evidence to justify a full scale invasion of Iraq to the benefit of Exxon fucking Mobil.
And Obama could have tried to prosecute Bush for that! He chose not to. He chose to double down in Afghanistan. His administration gave a shiny liberal seal of approval to all the authoritarian advances made by Bush, rather than dismantle it. And now we have Trump taking advantage of those very same policies!
There is no end to the number of people who could have tried to prosecute Bush, but placing the responsibility on their direct political rivals is just idiocy. No politician should be pursuing the imprisonment or trial of their competitors, even if you agree that the competitor did commit horrible crimes, it should be somebody else’s responsibility.
Obama did not pardon the Bush Admin.
The DOJ falls under the remit of the executive. If a former president were to be charged for their crimes, the sitting president would necessarily be involved.
I suppose a charge could come from UN court of justice and ha lol like our leaders would ever allow that precedent to get set