There was possibly some funny business happening under Bush, and it needs to be looked at. No one should be above the law, and that needs to be held in a most vigilant way in a government ruled by the people.
Of course there was funny business and no it does not need to and will not be looked at. You people simply refuse to get this. We are and have been engaged in a war that is more covert than conventional. This means spies, shady collaberations, less than honorable acts, etc. Obama was never going to be any different once he became privy to the intel and the world he was inheriting. Bush didn't make this. He merely dealt with it. And so will Obama. It was only fashionable to criticize Bush for it, because Americans have been made to feel that they have to answer to the world's hypocritical and unfair criticisms. How much funny business went on throughout the Cold War? Know about it all?
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No one is above the law" certainly makes us feel warm and equal and in charge of our government, but this is not the reality. American presidents are above the law. They always have been. We have Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, Bush, etc. all with examples of criminal possibilities and probabilities. Yet, none have been charged or jailed? Do you know why? Because in order to run this country and be watch dog over the entire world, they absolutely, to a degree, have to be above the law. They have to be able to make shady decisions and be able to know that the benefitting citizens they are charged to protect won't stick a noose around their necks to show the world that "no one is above the law" (of course under the security that was provided by the lynched).
It's a shady world and a "black and white" leader will only lead us into big trouble. Here's an example of this shady world..... Did you know that if the UN declares a genocide in a country, that the U.S. and the UN, by international law, is required to act? The U.S. is seperated from the UN in this international law. This goes back to Korea when the UN blessed the "Truman's Police Action" policy. Ever wonder why Rwanda and Sudan wasn't declared a genocide in the 90s? Or why the UN has taken a gross and neglectful view on Darfur and had to be pushed to even send investigators to "get to the bottom of the situation?"
There's a lot of "funny" going on, because this is a shady world. The shade exists on the national and the international stage. We have silent and unspoken agreements to ignore genocide. This is a crime in which no one is held accountable. We have wars we haven't fought, because American presidents have made back door deals and such, in which no one is held accountable. We have the most sophisticated spy network in the world and it is full of secrecy and less than honorable behaviors. Again...no one is held accountable.
I just don't understand why Americans feel that they are supposed to be privy to everything that goes on and that Presidents are faced with only black and white issues that have simple puritan answers.