Sounds like a good idea...that will never happen

General Ricardo Sanchez has added his name to the list of people calling for useful ideas that will never ever ever be allowed to happen. His idea? A Truth Commission thingy to investigate all those interrogation and torture related war crime type activities. It's not quite as good as my idea that will never happen (arresting them, charging them all in a court, and throwing them in prison) but it's a start.

In front of a packed audience tonight at the Times Center in New York City, General Ricardo Sanchez, the former commander of all coalition forces in Iraq, called for a truth commission to investigate the abuses and torture which occurred there.

The General described the failures at all levels of civilian and military command that led to the abuses in Iraq, "and that is why I support the formation of a truth commission."

The General went on to say that, "during my time in Iraq there was not one instance of actionable intelligence that came out of these interrogation techniques."..."If we do not find out what happened," continued the General, "then we are doomed to repeat it."
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Senator Patrick Leahy has called for a truth commission on the abuses in Iraq and set up a website to collect online signatures in support of the framework -- www.BushTruthCommission.com. More than 113,000 people have signed so far since the site's launch in February of this year.

As if we need another reason to fully explore to what extent we defecated on the founding fathers, our Constitution, and the Geneva Conventions, there is one added bonus to having a Truth Commission: irony will finally be killed for good when guys like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld go to something called a "Truth Commission", where there are no repercussions/prosecutions for telling the truth, and will proceed to lie their asses off. Sure, sure, wiretapping, torture, rendition, blah blah blah. But also: world record attempts at bullshitting and obfuscation. The Scumbag Liar Olympics. We need this for truth, but mostly for comedy.