As I said after the last Republican debate I did not watch as I was sleeping, and by the time I learned enough about what happened to be chagrined, it was no longer breaking news. Many of the questioners were Bush Regime neocons, including the unindicted war criminal, David Addington, Chicken Hawk Cheney’s alter ego. Over the weekend, Chris Hayes tore into CNN for such blatant disregard for decency.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one completely disgusted by CNN allowing a host of Bush neocon war mongers to ask questions at their "national security" Republican debate, including torture advocate, Cheney’s Cheney, David Addington… …As Hayes noted, no one associated with the Bush administration that lied us into war has had to pay any kind of social cost for their actions while serving in the Bush administration and Hayes found it a “remarkable moment” to watch them being allowed to ask questions during that debate. His guest, Eli Lake, from The Daily Beast claimed that they paid the ultimate cost by being out of power and the fact that they were “roundly criticized in almost all corners of the press, with the exception of the conservative media” and he noted that the justification for holding prisoners without a right to a trial has only been scaled back somewhat and is still being used today by the Obama administration when it comes to not releasing some of these terrorist suspects. As Hayes replied, that just makes what Addington did “even more egregious” and that the ultimate cost would have been some of these Bush neocons being prosecuted and landing in jail and not just being shunned socially or in the media… [emphasis added]

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Here’s the video.

Some claim that Obama’s failure to prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Tenet, Gonzales, Addington, Yoo and more was a betrayal. It was not. He said during his campaign that he had no desire to stir up the past on that issue, and I knew that when I voted for him. Nevertheless, he was wrong then, and he still is, because not to investigate torture violates US law. In 1994, the US Senate ratified the 1985 United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. That treaty defines and forbids torture. I will be calling for bringing these Republicans to justice, until they nail the lid on me.