Feingold Angry About Unwillingness to Prosecute Bush War Crimes

Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) was always one of former President Bush’s critics on the issue of national security policies. Now, he’s disagreeing with President Obama over Obama’s unwillingness to investigate and prosecute illegal actions during Bush’s eight years in office. Said Feingold, "Part of what troubles me are the lawyers – we should see their law school degrees - who consciously wrote these memos justifying and explaining full well those outrageous arguments. I cannot join the president, or his spokesman, or Rahm Emanual, who said we aren’t going [to prosecute]. I can’t. I just disagree with them."

Feingold didn’t stop at the president and his staff, however, and saved some of that vitriol for some Republican pundits. Noting comments made by Peggy Noonan, a conservative columnist who appeared on ABC’s "This Week," Feingold noted, "If you want to see just how outrageous this is, I refer you to the remarks made by Peggy Noonan this Sunday. I frankly have never heard anything quite as disturbing as her remark that was something to the affect of: 'well sometimes you just have to move on.'"

Noonan, while appearing on the ABC show, specifically said, "Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. It's hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that." Feingold continues his harangue to anyone who will listen, but it appears that his calls for investigations are being drowned out by what Americans view as more pressing matters – namely, the crumbling economy, rising unemployment, devastated retirement plans, a real estate market in shambles, tension in the Middle East and a host of other issues. In short, it appears that his calls for investigations are going to continue to fall on deaf ears.