No, I'm really trying to understand this.

I get that DC-Denizens like Doddering Dodd have been terrorized into yelping that all the "oxygen in the room" must be rationed out for discussions of Hillary's cleavage or what Obama's six-year-old has to say. Otherwise their bemoaning the Euphemedia's "obsession with the horserace" wouldn't qualify as "business as usual" hypocrisy.

But seriously, whatever "badness" you imagine lurks beyond a House vote to impeach bushcheney -- to simply voice objection to known acts of this horrid regime -- where does "our side" get off avoiding it while tortured hostages languish in place we pick up the tab for?

What exactly are we "winning" here?

Lord knows we may never muster a "leadership" that will take on the other side simply for the crimes committed against us -- stealing our elections, looting our treasury, shredding our Constitution -- but we used to at least notice things that were "bigger than ourselves."

We're supposed to be "the good guys." The ones that take the bullet. That faces up to poverty and racism, even if it "costs us the South." That faces up to blood-monied interests, to try to get universal health coverage. That risks our soldiers' lives to stop genocide, not initiate it.

Sure we may lose (often?) when we do these things. But don't we lose far more by not doing? By not acting?

And what exactly do we lose if there's no conviction/removal due to 30-plus GOP Senators? It's not like defending war crimes is something the RNC is going to want to campaign on. We hear a lot of babble in DC about having to "get them on the record" on more trivial matters. Well, up or down on war crimes in an impeachment trial is a "record" that the entire public/electorate will be able remember.

But why fear making that record? I would think we would rush to it. It's their side that is terrified of the possibility. They're the ones doing most anything -- including sending more and more of our kids to useless deaths -- just to avoid something too "reality-based."

It's the war criminals that really fear that vote. And for good reason. Because at that point it's every man for themselves. Do they stand beside bushcheney -- even on their way to The Hague -- or not? Do you really think we should fear that vote more than they do?

Do you really think that over 30 GOP Senators are going to stand up to history and declare "Yes, the U.S. of A. is a War Criminal Nation and proud of it. We must stand up for the unelected ruler who led us out of the darkness of respect for human rights and international cooperation."

You really think that's how it would play out? Even after the Senate has already voted 90-9 in support of McCain's Anti-Torture Law (that was negated -- impeachably -- via "Rule By Signing Statement")? There's no reasonable chance that they'd (re)do the right thing? Or arrange for resignations to avoid being put under the spotlight themselves?

And even if you really think so many of your fellow Americans are that depraved -- why is it better that this not be brought out into the open?

Why must we allow them their fig leaf?

Why would we want to exonerate them while the world watches?

Why must our children shamefully read about our tacit approval?

Just askin'. It's no biggie. Is it?

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