I came across a couple of great analogies today in discussions about Bush's war crimes. The first came from that lovable blowhard windbag Chris Matthews. With a couple of guests he was talking about Bush's farewell press conference and the way he talked about 'disappointments' when asked about mistakes he'd made during his presidency. One of his big 'disappointments' was the lack of WMD's in Iraq. Matthews commented on the use of the word 'disappointment' as being an odd way of describing the feeling. Matthews said something to the effect that it was like someone shooting and killing a person in an alley because they thought that person had a gun, and then afterward being disappointed to find out the person was unarmed. I'd take that analogy a step further by saying that Bush not only murdered the guy in the alley for no good reason, he murdered the guy's wife and kids and all his neighbors, and then burned down the town he lived in.
The other came from Matt Iglesias, writing about Obama's apparent reluctance to persue Bush's war crimes, saying, "...he wanted to look forward, not back." Again using the murder analogy, Iglesias said that if John Yoo shot and killed someone on the street, no one would argue against prosecution by saying we should look forward not backward.
I'd take great satisfaction in seeing Bush and his cronies answer for their crimes.
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