In the interest of national security

There's growing support for prosecuting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for, essentially, war crimes. The liberal agenda, championed by MSNBC, wants President Obama to check into whether the former president and vice president violated the Constitution and were intent on breaking the law with incidents of torture, specifically waterboarding.

Obama has said he is more interested in looking forward and not backwards when dealing with this controversial and potentially damaging situation. Now people calling themselves members of a "truth commission" are trying to get this in motion without Obama's signature on it.

To name how many people would like to see the snear wiped off of Cheney's face would take a lifetime. Or, in Cheney's case, one or two more heart attacks. And Bush's imperial presidency, his theory that being inclusive was prissy, is also subject to disdain by the left.

Here's the deal: Don't look back, even in this case. Human rights violated? You bet'cha. Is global justice called for because of what went on at Abu Grabass? Most certainly. Are Bush and Cheney above the law? They used to be. Should they be prosecuted for violating the Constitution? No.

But Cheney would be well advised (ya, like anyone could advise him) to keep his snarky comments about anything to himself. Let him waste away in some undisclosed location -- be gone with your bad self. There's no telling what else this waste product did that we don't know about, and better left unknown.

Bush, on the other hand, is guilty of being out to lunch. But at least he's keeping a low profile. Sure, he failed to catch those responsible for 9-11 -- but the fact is the country wasn't attacked again.

And it may have been because the powers that be had to do what you gotta do to get it done. It's real-life "24" -- certainly the country can get behind that.

There is a theory out there that the country wasn't attacked again in the Bush reign of error because it was done. Been there, attacked that. The bad guys proved they could attack our native soil and force us to all go shopping until we spent ourselves into this present economic tsunami. And they did it on Bush's watch -- because of their hatred of Daddy Bush's ties to oil rich nations that bleed crude.

So Cheney went to work rounding up any unusual suspect and W. said forget all that, Dick, maybe you should just take 'em hunting.

Truth is the rules of the game were re-written after 9-11. America was the victim and we don't do victim well. We're the aggressors of the world. We're Macho's Last Stand.

If anything, Bush and Cheney should've been bounced from office in 2004 for getting the country involved in Iraq. And every member of Congress who voted for that dang war should've gone down with Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dumber too. But Democrats didn't want to look weak and Republicans can't get it up anymore, so they have to go invade a country they seriously believe will "treat us like liberators" and line up to suck on the teet of mother democracy.

It didn't happen. None of it did. Let it go, leftist merlot-sipping, cheese-eating bimbos.

It's not worth it. Nothing will make Cheney squirm and Bush will turn into a bowl of Jell-O if ever he has to defend the things he probably wasn't aware he even authorized.

As the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre used to say, "We're all bozos on this bus." And sometimes we let the biggest clown take the wheel because we need a designated driver who quit drinking and found Jesus who in turn told him to run for president.

We wanted revenge for terrorism and we didn't want to know how we got it. Sure, it came in the form of shock and awe on a country that had nothing to do with 9-11, but we needed a movie trailer to sell us on the preview of "We're Back, You Bastards!"

But the machismo dragged on and we got bored. So everything went all secret on us. In the interest of national security. Sounded reasonable enough. Boring stuff we squirm at in our seats when we hear it explained to us like we were back in high school trying to remember who George Washington Carver was. It's like the hero explaining the plot of the movie because we're too dumb to catch on.

We like it that way. Deep down we don't want to see any president under investigation. Power corrupts -- we all know that. But that's OK as long as it keeps us safe.

Liberty should never be fleeting.