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August 4, 2006
Conyers' Cajones
I wish it didn't have to be so partisan and that the facts could speak for themselves, but then again that'd require a lot more intelligence and moral fiber for that to be the case. Regardless of the partisan politics, I find John Conyers' report (get a good summary here) on egregious offenses by W.'s regime commendable. I'm not a big fan of Democrats, and I certainly do not place my hope with them, but it'd be great to see a little retribution and a stop to the madness spread in the name of freedom.
As quoted in this TPMMuckraker post, Conyers said of the report,
"We're not trying to play Department of Justice or prosecutor. We're trying to put [these charges] on the record before too much other history blurs this," Conyers told me. "[We are] making sure that what we see as at least a couple dozen violations of federal statute do not go unnoticed. . . . We're trying to make sure that we have the fullest record of this, so that this won't be the work of industrious historians ten years from now."
Given the numerous "historical" accounts on the justification for the invasion of Iraq proffered in forty months, I think setting the record straight before the revisionist historians get more of their dirty hands on it is a good thing. Now there's some preemption I support. (Never thought I'd write that sentence!)
Posted by mattalexander at August 4, 2006 10:39 PM
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