The Bush Regime absolutely, positively MUST be punished for what they have done!  They are responsible for so many criminal acts, from destroying the Constitution to war crimes, that a new category for international criminals should be created just for them!  Bush and Cheney should have been impeached, removed from office and prosecuted long ago, and because they were not, the precedent now exists for a presidency that is literally above the law.  The president may now do what he likes without regard for international law, the Constitution, human rights, Congress, the Supreme Court, or the will of the people.  The president is now an absolute monarch, an emperor, who has been ceded his power by a craven gaggle of legislators like those of the ancient Roman Senate who handed their Republic to Julius Caesar.  He is now the Emperor of a collapsing, bankrupt empire, whose people are vulnerable to the destroying juggernaut of 60 trillion dollars in toxic derivatives that is literally crushing the life out of the economies of the world like a titanic wrecking ball.  When it has run its course, the world will be returned to a new Dark Age, its people wan, starving and prostrate, but still the subjects of an inexperienced emperor who believes his own messianic rhetoric, and who is guided by the same venal kleptomaniacs that have already destroyed the world's economy.  If there is now, as vice president-elect Joe Biden predicted, a world crisis designed to "test' president Obama, does anyone think he will relinquish the absolute power he has been bequeathed by his criminal predecessors?  On the contrary!  He will greatly expand it!  After all, he's the indispensable man, the Bringer of Hope, the Light to the Nations!  Power corrupts, said Lord Acton, and absolute power corrupts ABSOLUTELY!