Isn't it nice that Bush and Rumsfeld are reaffirming that the US has a Constitution and Bill of Rights after dragging it through the mud in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
That's good. I'm going to exercise my right to say I hope both of them end up on trial for war crimes, as they should in a world community of laws. Maybe get Cheney for piracy too just for the sake of diversity(* see link) In lieu of that I'll settle for the existence of really malevalent ghosts. Or even highly motivated relatives and friends of the dead and maimed willing to seek justice as outside the law as these evil men have acted. What Bush and his gang owe the world at this point is their absence from it, one way or another...

(*link:http://tinyurl.com/awc69)

Rumsfeld, Murtha Continue War of Words Over Iraq
By Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 20, 2005
The newly energized debate over the war in Iraq continued unabated today, as Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) repeated his call for a withdrawal of troops while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned that words "have effects" on both U.S. troops and the enemy.
President Bush, meanwhile, declined to repeat disparaging comments about Murtha made last week by his press secretary, who ridiculed the decorated veteran by comparing him to controversial filmmaker Michael Moore.
Speaking in China, Bush said he understood "that the decision to call for an immediate withdrawal of our troops by Congressman Murtha was done in a careful and thoughtful way. I disagree with his position."
Speaking in China, Bush said he understood "that the decision to call for an immediate withdrawal of our troops by Congressman Murtha was done in a careful and thoughtful way. I disagree with his position."
"Congressman Murtha is a fine man," Bush said, "a good man who served our country with honor and distinction as a Marine in Vietnam and as a U.S. congressman."
Bush largely left the administration's rebuttal to Rumsfeld, who appeared in successive interviews on the network's Sunday talk shows.
"We live in a free country and it's proper for people to raise questions and to have views," Rumsfeld said...http://tinyurl.com/9gxzq
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