Oooops! And Final (?) Draft…..Update! The Petition is Live!

UPDATE: Please go to Democrats.com and sign the petition!

UPDATE 2: Please ignore my whining below, as while I was sleeping, others were actually….doing stuff! If it weren’t against internet etiquette I would delete the whole sorry mess!

UPDATE 3: Please go to Democrats.com and sign the petition!

Sacre Merde!

My apologies folks, after pushing apparently a bit to much due to my current physical situation I just slept like the dead for over twelve hours and literally just woke up!!! I feel like a kid who didn’t do his home work, lol. On the day I was hoping to launch, I have nothing, NOTHING!!! And everyone is depending on me…..aaaargh!

In my belief system that can mean only two things….one I am a schmuck! Two…it is not quite time to launch, for some unknown reason. (besides the fact that ….I am a schmuck!)

So…one more comment period.

A request for promotional ideas.

And a request for ideas info, and support essays and material for an appendix that documents the torture and rendition and coverup in more detail.

Sorry folks!

Final draft…..if anyone here has a reason to object to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace!

Dear Attorney General Designate Holder,

We the undersigned citizens of the United States hereby formally petition you to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes.

These crimes  are being euphemistically referred to as “abusive interrogation techniques” by such respected figures as Senator John McCain. These are euphemisms for torture. Torture is a War Crime. Waterboarding is a War Crime. The CIA has admitted waterboarding detainees. Recently, Vice President Cheney has brazenly admitted authorizing the program that lead to waterboarding, other forms of torture too numerous to list, and ultimately, the deaths by homicide of detainees.

As Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison has stated:

“After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”

The Washington Post recently summarized the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on detainee treatment thusly:

A bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their decisions led to more serious abuses in Iraq and elsewhere.

We the undersigned citizens demand a full and thorough investigation immediately upon your taking office. This investigation should be pursued no matter where it may lead and no matter what the political implications may be. To this end, we remind you that you work not on behalf of or for the President or the Congress, but for the People of the United States of America and for Justice itself.

The United States is a representative democracy. The actions of our government officials are done in the name its citizens. War Crimes have been committed in our name. Torture has been done in our name. The only way to clear our name of War Crimes is to repudiate them through the aggressive prosecution of each and every person involved to the full extent of the law through the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.