A few months ago, a commentator named 'Zin' at Harry's Place wanted to try and then hang Bush and various members of his administration as war criminals -- also Henry Kissinger. (See especially the comment posted at 2:53 PM on July 2nd.) The most serious of the crimes he wanted to punish them for -- supposedly helping put Saddam in power in the Ba'athist coups of 1963 and 1968 -- were committed during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.
At the time, a number of thoughts crossed my mind in rapid succession. A post by Jonathan Gewirtz on Chicago Boyz just jogged my memory, so I'll post them here:
Comments are still off, and I'll be out of town most of the weekend, so e-mails received after midnight will not be answered until Sunday evening.
Posted by Dr. Weevil at December 30, 2004 03:14 PM