JohnnyWelch, October 18 at 11:51 am Link to this comment

“So, let me see if i understand…  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Blair, etc., etc. are not facing trial for war crime allegations because Obama doesn’t want to “waste” the political capital and bring even greater division to the country?  Meanwhile, our reputation in the world suffers and, worse yet, the hope for democracy and nations ruled by laws takes a back seat to the emerging powers?  So, then, who is responsible if our republic crumbles?”

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That’s the observation that rings true time and time again.

“..Obama doesn’t want to “waste” the political capital and bring even greater division to the country?”

That’s what they’ve used over and over again.

We’re not ready for universal, single payer.  It would cause too much disruption.  (It’s like being told that you are too young to stay up and watch late night tv .... by your younger brother who turns to be a stepson.

Closing Gitmo and trying the Gitmo prisoners in the US would cause too much disruption.  So let’s leave them there.  Forever.

Fighting for Elizabeth Warren as head of the Consumer Agency would be a long drawn out unnecssary battle.

Allowing the Islamites to build an Cultural Center a few blocks from where the WTC used to be would cause too much disruption and pain.  Fuck the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution.

And the list goes on and on.

I know what he can do.  He can crack and smile and break into a merry jaunt as takes the podium.  He can give a wannabe-rousing campaign speech with a semi jive-talking accent.  He enlivens the parollees.

He shoud watch Michelle, his esposa, do a speech.  She’s engaging.  She grew up in the family of a Chicago Ward Boss.  She knows how to talk to get a point across.  Plus she’s as cold as a witch’s teat.  She used to turn way the emergency patients from the South Side of Chicago when she was administrator of the University of Chicago’s Medical Center.  Now that takes balls.  She’s got ‘em.  He ain’t.

So, let me see if i understand…  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Blair, etc., etc. are not facing trial for war crime allegations because Obama doesn’t want to “waste” the political capital and bring even greater division to the country?  Meanwhile, our reputation in the world suffers and, worse yet, the hope for democracy and nations ruled by laws takes a back seat to the emerging powers?  So, then, who is responsible if our republic crumbles?

“Why are we talking about Tony Blair as war
criminal, and not a peep about Bush?”
- - for a starter:
- Blair is not an offspring of an original, WWII NAZI Spy affiliated with “Operation Paper Clip,” & repetitions, 1945-1948. (see-  http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20070405.htm)
- MI5 & MI6 spend more time doing spy work and less time than the CIA copying names from tombstones and WWII-hero dossiers, falsifying family histories of NAZIs, and fitting them into US history.
- MI5 & MI6 are concerned with “homeland
preservation” and less with turning the western
world plus the Mid-East into UK “homeland.”
- “Public media” in Europe are not as completely
owned and manipulated (currently) by NAZI-zionist-
types as are media in the USofA.
- Tony Blair´s sire made no agreement with La Hague to defer charges in the alleged “World Court,” for violations of international law, as Junior Bush´s sire is alleged to have made.

I saw both parts of the interview, and I thank Amy Goodman, as well.

DemocracyNow! is the only program on tv that one can rely on.  All others are at best questionable.

I appreciated John LeCarre’s clarity.  Maybe it’s his British accent, maybe his skills at writing novels, what ever it is, I enjoyed listening to weave a line of logical, coherent thought throughout the interview.

One of the reasons, I feel, that Bush’s poodle, Blair and his book weren’t a big success is his Americanization of his speech.  He injected bits of British feigned humility with a few self deprecatory remarks, but otherwise his answers to the interviewer’s question sounded lie he’d been trained by an American PR person to sell the book in America, Ah! America.  I love America.

Plenty of money.  Plenty of dummies.  This is Heaven.  Look no further. 

Tony the Bone, Blair found out different.  It’s the underlying fraud the underlying lying, if you will, that tells the story in semi-conscious America.  If you lull populations into that level of consciousness, you have to know who or better what you are talking to.

Thanks again, Amy, and the other interviewer who was with you

Thank you Amy, always a dependable voice of sanity. Btw, I’m happy to see you looking so healthy lately.

Here’s to all people with intelligence and compassion who are willing to spend their lives trying to help others understand what is going on and what can be done about it.  That goes for both John LeCarre and Amy Goodman, and a host of others scattered throughout the world whom we never hear about.

hlouisnini,
‘but I have hopes that somewhere in this great country there is an emerging young leader who will do that in a serious, civil, productive way. ‘

How nice, how patient, how civilized, how accepting of atrocities.

Sorry, but the apathetic, ‘someday this country will do the right thing’ is the same attitude that perpetuates the accepted abuses in this country.  No sense of outrage, no desire to call our elected officials to task.

That, my friend, is why this country if GREAT ONLY IN YOUR OWN APATHETIC FANTASY.

I’m not sure why the same standard is not applied to George Bush?  Why are we talking about Tony Blair as war criminal, and not a peep about Bush?

wonderful!

I think I have read everything Le Carre has written.  I first became aware of him when a neighbor told me of “Tinker , Tailor” during a very tumultuous time in my life, and I immediately read it, and found a friend.  I now own both the PBS series and re-watch them periodically.  And I will eventually read his latest.

Now to John personally.  As a contemporary of you in age and time - in the south we have a saying - “Just keep on, keeping on.” - call ém out, we haven’t done that yet with Bush - but I have hopes that somewhere in this great country there is an emerging young leader who will do that in a serious, civil, productive way.  Remember the line that Ford used “We have emerged from our long national nightmare” -  That was child’s play compared to this one - I know I was there for both of them.

The quote,

“Victims never forget, and the winners do. And they forget very quickly.” is worth this read alone. 

Thanks Amy!

If we are going to be able to look other Nations in the face, when we preach Law and Order to them extolling our peerless Judicial system, then the likes of Blair and Bush, along with their cohorts, should be behind bars awaiting trial, charged with causing the death and injury of innocent people by waging war on wholly unfounded pretexts, against specific resolutions set out by the UN.

Superb interview, IMO. Here’s a link to the interview
with John le Carré;

http://tinyurl.com/35gczf4

Amy Goodman has no peers in U.S. news broadcasting.