i have always said mistake after mistake is not a mistake it is only suppose to look like a mistake. this was all well thought out. they needed to be justified so 9/11 was it. they all need to be held accountable. unfortunately i am afraid we will lead down the same path again. they were warned about 9/11 and did nothing.

"Freedom is never an achieved state. Like electricity, we must keep generating it, or the lights go out. We now witness a fire sale of American liberty at the bargain basement price of the false promise of security. The America being designed this moment will not resemble the America we have been defending. The danger is not that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans will not realize he is already inside the castle walls." Samuel Adams Speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776 "If you love [the promise of dispossessed] wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

There is a growing chorus of angry citizens urging the perpetrators of what amounts to a horrific war crime to be brought to justice. We are calling for the prosecution of the main promoters of this debacle, which has killed close to a million Iraquis and Americans. I urge all who care to read Vincent Buglosi's "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder", which lays out the case by one of this country's most respected and able prosecutors. It is time to pay the piper.

Never forget that America is NOT free. How are we free? America gets "two" choices in presidential leadership. Two and there realistically, wasn't so much difference between warmonger number one and warmonger number two. Let's think Rahm Emanuel as White House Chief of Staff. Clinton as Secretary of State? Congress dictates and the American people get to pay for it. Our president declares wars of naked aggression and genocide and the war grinds on and on. 9/11/01 was most likely an inside job and to this day there is no honest nor independent investigation. Treason is the rule of our land as is war profiteering. Can we all say Dianne Feinstein? America is NOT free and as the war grinds, so does what little of our "liberty" we had left. How does the NSA peeking at one's emails sit with you? America is NOT free, we are just over indulged and pampered to bankruptcy.

There is no way that we can begin to reclaim our greatness as a nation until those that have trashed our worldwide integrity and leadership have been brought to justice. I agree with the previous poster, although I would love to see Bush & Cheney drawn & quartered for the crimes they have committed against our republic, the war is but one example of the treasonous activity they have inflicted upon us. There is really no way to make restitution to the families that have been damaged or destroyed, ..at the very minimum we need a public acknowledgement of what has become obvious-they lied to the world in order to carry out their own agendas. We should banish them all from our country.

Nice article Marc! I'm worried by all this "we have to move forward" talk we're hearing now. I think the Obama Administration needs to understand that as difficult and painfull as it may be, there is NO MOVING FORWARD until the truth about 9-11 is exposed and Bush Administration's many crimes are acknowledged and accounted for.

FREE? The Bush/Cheney administration have done the most terrible disservice to not only to the American people, many of whom are misguided, uneducated folks buying into false patriotism, but also destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi and Afghani civilians. The damage done to their countries in the form of weapons containing depleted uranium will linger on for many generations while the war profiteers are cashing-in handsomely. When you see the photos of children being birthed today in Iraq totally deformed and almost looking like monsters you wonder at what price this pre-arranged war came to humanity. And yet there are people who will defend this system and the mess it has left the country/world in irrespective of what the consequences will be. It would not surprise me at all if 9/11 had been an inside-job destined to trigger what has been happening since and what, if at all, will take generations to rectify. Taking all of the ill-gotten gains of those who have profited from this scheme such as Haliburton et al may well help get the country out of the fiscal misery it is in as will the restitution and pay-back by those who contributed to the financial melt-down. Will it happen? I doubt it - the American resolve is just not there and flags keep being waved as a sign of loyalty to a system that will self-destruct just like communism did and for the very same reasons. Bush/Cheney ought to face the World Court in the Hague to be brought to justice - the people who died or are affected for the rest of their lives should not have suffered in vain.

Thank you Mr. Ash. Some of us, the relatively enlightened few, will not forget. As for the rest of America, they don't have a clue how far "down the rabbit hole" we are. Of course, this was no mistake. The members of PNAC proposed a war in the Middle East to take control of oil (and our "Empire's" future) more than a decade ago, and indicated that in order to get the American people to go along with this war a "new Pearl Harbor" would be required. The events of 9/11 were the new Pearl Harbor. Any reasonable person who asks the right questions and does his/her homework cannot reach any other conclusion than that it was an inside job. I agree with the comments that holding Bush & Co. accountable for their many treasonous crimes against us and humanity will be necessary to "unify" the nation, but I don't see unity as being a realistic goal at this point. There are at least two Americas, and we seem to be farther apart than at any time since the civil war. The battle continues!

Over 1,000,000 dead in Iraq because we were lied to by Bush. Fully, 50% of its population were children under the age of thirteen at the time of our invasion. Over 4,000 American soldiers have been killed—but the ratio of those killed to those maimed for life is ten to one. The Nuremberg Tribunals an international court headed by the U. S. after WWII judged “invasion” to be “the supreme international war crime.” This was presented to be an international standard of law and conscience for all time. It was rightly championed by us until the invasion of Iraq. The actions that have engendered and supported the war are criminal and impeachable. Many other war crimes have been perpetrated by the Bush government, including torture. Torture overwhelms human standards expressing, in effect, every violation that can be perpetrated against a human. It is the ultimate corruption of power. Its victims do not recover but carry the scars of such treatment invisibly for the rest of their lives - if they can bear surviving it at all. Implied in such government behavior is the breakdown of law, Due Process, and accountability from those in power. People who are imprisoned indefinitely without charges or legal recourse and tortured are not prisoners. They are slaves. This is what the Bush Administration and its collaborators have done and what they represent. A huge array of legislative action, “illegal legislation” in effect, has been enacted to essentially undo federal democratic statutes in order to promulgate the war by compromising of the Bill of Rights and the Balance of Powers mandated in the U.S. Constitution. This is because the people in government who have pushed the war have broken a vast array of federal and international laws to conduct it and because of this, they are legally liable unless they distort the terms and reverse the standards they have violated. This erosion of law still threatens Americans even in their own home. Please consider this...from the point of view of lives lost, lives ruined and the pains everyone associated with it must bear. Consider respect for life, and respect for our soldiers - who are supposed to “defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic”. Our Representatives in Congress have certainly NOT done this. Therefore, consider respect for democratic law, civil order, natural order or even Nature itself; the war is wrong from every viewpoint and every element that supports it is wrong. So please stand up and speak out for peace, the U.S. Constitution and rule of law.

Never Forget...9/11 Was Treason And it has been covered up by both major political parties in a sickening display of "business as usual." "The Administration's decision to classify this information prevents the American people from having access to information about the involvement of certain foreign governments in the terrorist attacks of September 2001." -US Senate, October 28, 2003 http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/s102803.html That's treason, folks in black and white. The question then is: Why won't anyone do anything about it? Why isn't there anything said here about open treason related to the September 11th attacks? Why aren't you outraged? Where's your red white and blue faux patriotism in the face of real domestic enemies, covering up the actions of real foreign enemies? Are you going to complain to Obama about this? I sure can't do it alone. John Doraemi publishes Crimes of the State Blog http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

We the people have let Bush and Cheney do their dirty work for eight years. The Nuremberg trial showed the way on how to deal with that. Starten unnecessary wars just to prove "I am a war president" is a major crime. The banrupting of the country for personal glory is another one. We will never live this down.

Shame indeed. Imagine if the atrocites committed by the US under the Bush adminisration had been committed by some other country... Thanks to news sources like Truthout..we are able to get a much clearer and more honest picture of what is really going on under the auspices of 'freedom and liberation'. Heaven knows we rarely..if ever... get the truth from the news conglomerates reporting the 'news' The crimes against humanity committed by the US under this administration are breathtaking in their scope. Bush, Cheney and the rest of the perpetrators ought to be treated according to the same laws that govern other nations. The fact that they are not being held accountable for the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people..and the destruction of a sovereign nation.. speaks to the inequality and hypocrisy evident when dealing with a superpower nation unwilling to see the truth of what is being done in their name. Shame indeed!

Do you ever notice the perversion of some people in that they see an American solider injured by an IRAQI IED and they Blame BUSH. They see Iraqi citizens injured by an American bomb and the BLAME BUSH once again. I can only image that if the US does indeed stay in Iraq until 2011 as the recent agreement states any American or Iraqi casualties rendered from Jan 20, 2009 until the pull out date in 2011 will be BUSH'S FAULT as well. Simply freeking Amazing!!

Never forget that 9/11 was orchestrated and carried out by a shadowy cabal of neocon criminals. Worse, it has been covered up by a consortium of both political parties and the media.Until America faces this truth and brings the real perpetrators to justice, we don't have much hope of throwing off the fascist rulers.

Cheney and Gonzalez is indicted in a Texas Court of Law, for abuse of prisoners Arraignment set for Cheney, Gonzales in Texas - Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081120/ap_on_re_us/cheney_indicted