About That Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

I guess I got a little too excited a couple posts ago and didn't realize Leahy was proposing this instead of prosecutions. Obviously this is a bad idea. Though, in a way, perhaps the American legal system has devolved to such an extent that it is more akin to the legal system in a developing country where these types of truth commissions usually occur.

I think in a way, though, the truth commission is a good idea in that it is more likely to happen than full-scale war crimes prosecutions. And if the commissions happened, at least the fucking media would be forced to admit that Bushco did some very bad, evil things. Obviously, in a reasonable world, there would be prosecutions of the clear Bushco crimes-- and we should all press for them. But given the choice between doing nothing about the Bushco outrages, and airing them in a truth commission, I choose the latter.