Given the latest revelations of  the obvious culpability of the administration in war crimes, we will have trouble bringing cases in the future if we let this one go. But I expect it will slowly evaporate, as the campaign heats up, and we will wear the mantle of a huge but crumbling, corrupt and venal, clueless and spineless former democracy.

Let's remember that, thanks to Bush and cronies, we are the butt of jokes around the world, the target of terrorists, seeing our monetary system failing, and our safety regulators colluding with their "clients", the enablers of prima-facie war crimes such as torture and wars of aggression, and the folks left holding the bag of snarling cats that is Iraq.

And we aren't hauling the idiots that brought us to this state into court? It is true that we will have to publicly acknowledge the crimes we have allowed to happen, but denial, while an alternate spelling for that North African waterway, is not sufficient to make the rest of the world forget that we were more stupid than the Soviets in their Afghan invasion, more incompetent than the captain of the Exxon Valdez, and so easily swayed by propaganda that it's damned lucky for us that there were no serious Hitlers around.

Let's start hammering the House leadership on this.