nang 'em. Hang 'em high.

Swim meet champions

The Still President and Still Vice President have both admitted to War Crimes.  HHussein is left with the problem of what to do about it.  Today's Times lays out the arguments.

I would hang 'em, with the reservation that I pose capital punishment; so hang 'em just enough.

This is a good 'Texas view of what to do to anyone who would trample 

in their 2nd Amendment Tight To Carry Concealed Guns to Church:
                  "Live from the (upper) Texas Gulf Coast
"Yeah, I really don't think there's any punishment too strong for these tortures. Hang them. Hang them all from the highest tree on national fucking TV right along with Rod Blagojevich and his ilk. And let their bodies twist in the wind, as a warning to all the rest who would ever contemplate taking a shit on our rights . . . ."

Of course this quotation references attempts to stamp bullets with an ID number so that murderers can be identified, in plain violation of Justice Scalia's ruling on the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, now made scared everywhere except in Justice Scalia's court room, and the sentiment fits torturers. 

The Spanish Inquisition water boarded.  Japanese water boarded our soldiers and we tried them as war criminals for doing so. We prosecuted GI's in Vietnam for water boarding, for Christ's Sake. If I get some lawyer to write an opinion that it's OK for me to shoot the Vice President in the face with bird shot, would I be excused?

It is too clear that Cheney and Bush are war criminals.  I say "too clear" because Hussein doesn't want to clutter up his pure message with messy war crime trials.  Too bad, I say.

Times change but the sentiment of outrage remains ever with us.

They will hang Jeff. Davis to a sour apple tree!
They will hang Jeff. Davis to a sour apple tree!
They will hang Jeff. Davis to a sour apple tree!
As they march along!

The International Treaty on Torture requires signatories, for example us,  England, Turkey, Brazil, Iran, Uruguay and nearly every country in the world, to apprehend war criminals and try them.  Many nations are angry at our disregard for our treaty obligations and our weakening respect for the Rule if Law. Bushco's liberty to travel will be severely limited, and how embarrassing for France to do what we were too timid to do!

"We will hand Dick Cheney from a sour apple tree," or at least that gets my vote. But, since I oppose capital punishment, hang him only until he comes in his pants, then send him to Elba, or wherever the modern equivalent is. Perhaps send him to Iraq, which still-President Bush says loves America.

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I am feverish.  Perhaps that explains my anger.  Perhaps it only makes my anger sharper.  

I true;y don't like involuntary  torture.  

I really would not like  see Cheney hanged, or treated like some of our prisoners, unless he would get a kick out of it.  

( tConsensual torture which inflicts no lasting damage, on 

the other hand, is good, clean fun.)

I do like banishment, and a time in Iraq, with only as much money as the average Iraqi has, might engender a modiicun if humility.

Ah, well.  Nothing much will happen, I fear.  To bad!