This week, Barack Obama reiterated that he has “no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years.” He may have no interest, but Dick Cheney certainly does. And he’s got nothing but time on his hands. Which means we will keep re-litigating those policies until we get to the bottom of things. But Obama and his administration needn’t spend even a second of their time on this. Leave that to a bipartisan Truth Commission. Look at how much we found out this month, including the fact that waterboarding was used in an attempt to extract backup for Cheney’s fantasy of an Iraq/al Qaeda connection, and imagine what revelations subpoena power would bring. Without a full accounting of the Bush administration’s use of torture, there will never be closure. Only endless re-litigation.

props,
i just put up a poster starring ms modo. her explanations sounded ridiculous, so i did some digging and found out the truth. 😉

my comments will be short for a while. i’m blogging injured. 😥 well, it seems i was injured a while back but didn’t realize that the booboo was worse than i thought, so now i have to keep my pinky taped to my ring finger for 6 weeks. strange, but i am typing okay with the taped hand and screwing up with my good hand. for the record, it’s driving me crazy. i’m a finger and toe wiggler, and i feel like half my hand is in jail.

‘Correction: May 18, 2009
Maureen Dowd’s column on Sunday, about torture, failed to attribute a paragraph about the timeline for prisoner abuse to Josh Marshall’s blog at Talking Points Memo. ”

The paragraph she lifted:

““More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.”

First time I had praised her in years. Sigh.

That’s easy, Nonniedoodums; we will each stand before the judges of spirit one day. We only have to answer for ourselves. So think, act, and live honestly, loyally, fearlessly, and truthfully. Those that walk away today will be having their own personal WTF moment in the not too distant future. Feh.