Our enemy, BigOil, doesn't want the west to fall, they want the Middle East's oil to themselves and the muslims who aren't keen on that have mistakenly equated "americans" with "BigOil". Prosecuting this case would paint a clear line of separation between real americans and the true nemesis, the true target of the wrath of Al Qaida and jihad: BigOil. Sure, a handful of "americans" (and I use the term very loosely in their case) would be on the run, but it's a much better situation than the majority of us taking the hits for a bunch of Grifting Oil Pirates.. I'm all for a public separation of Americans from BigOil. Let's get a public divorce via the prosecution of Bushco. THEIR AGENDA IS NOT THE AMERICAN AGENDA. Got that?
Then amercians and the west would be safe and BigOil would be running for cover. As they should be.
Moreover, if Bushco were certain that their actions were legal, they should simply not fear at all going to hearings about them. If anything, if they are true americans, they should submit to going through the motions if for no other reason to show the world how democracy works and to lessen potential threats to military abroad by offering a visible public walk-through of the "legitimacy" of their actions as tried and found legal as backed by Congress.
They don't want this to happen because they fear, justly so, that their actions will not be found legal.. And this is why any criminal so protests going to court. And it is precisely why we should try it: their vehement insistence not to..
Their resistance and trying to tie themselves to the majority, of whom disapprove of their actions, is putting american uniformed men and women as well as civilians as targets for jihad instead of themselves. Al Qaida needs to see that americans don't want to pirate their oil, that a few outlaws are up to it who have siezed power by nefarious means. Our safety would be greatly enhanced by running Bushco and BigOil through the ringer by demostrating to the frustrated at-the-end-of-their-ropes arabs that we understand and sympathize with their pain because we ourselves have been subjected to it. The true enemy of the world would be unveiled for all to see.
