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Will we ever see Bush on trial?

As much as I think I'd enjoy seeing it, not in my wildest opium-filled nightmares would this ever happen. Hell, we'd be lucky to see him get impeached, let alone tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity...
 
I gotta admit its my fantasy---to see Bush give that command performance at the Hague. I just am not holding my breath.

But its still a possible reality-------if Iraq really blows up in the worlds face--and at the same time our foreign debt becomes a pressing issue.--------I can forsee the USA selling Bush &Co. down the river to the Hague as a really cheap cheap price for world co-operation bailing us out of some of our current messes.

And besides---it would be a very nice good faith gesture that the US repudiates this stuff and has learned its lesson. Sort of a the miscreant is showing insight into their problems and is making a good faith effort to learn their lesson. Rehabilitaion is possible. And is no longer talking to bad influences--and has turned States evidence.
 
Berlusconi first, then Bush. But i doubt it's gonna be a international court.
Unless america comes to it's sensess.
 
Maybe we could ship Bush, Cheney and their entire group of meglomaniac neocons to the Guantanamo Hilton for a few years while the courts decide who has jurisdiction to decide how where they should be tried first. The U.S. will have a good case against them for treason before they get to the World Court for crimes against humanity.
 
I oppose Bush, but he's not an international criminal. He isn't a dictator. An independently freely elected congress went along with him. The war was carried out horribly, but some of the reasons we went were (or could have) justified the war. Of course other reasons were just stupid.
 
Yawn!! what you guys gonna bellyache about once he retires? You'll be lost.
well on second thought a lot of you are still crying about the 2000 election, so you should be good for a while.
 
Well, I could see an Israelie extraction team kidnapping Bush and delivering him alive to the Haugh. I don't imagine Bush making it to trial. He would suicide in his cell.
 
Originally posted by: filterxg
I oppose Bush, but he's not an international criminal.
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The Bush administration lied to the American public about why they launched a useless, elective war that has killed thousands of American troops and wounded tens of thousands more, as well as killing and wounding many tens of thousands more Iraqi civilians, and in doing so, they have spent us into trillions of dollars of debt that will remain a burden on our society for generations to come. They did so while offering continuously shifting alleged reasons for this actions:
  • There was no yellow cake uraniium in Niger.
  • There were no aluminum tubes capable of being used in centrifuges process nuclear material.
  • There were no facilities for making nerve gas or biological weapons.
  • There were no long range rockets.
  • There were no WMD's.
They ignored any information from competent internal sources that ran counter to their ambitions:
  • They ignored all warnings about the possiblity of an attack like 9/11, despite explicit warnings from people like Richard Clarke, former terrorisim advisor to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton. Richard Clarke also warned Bush that Saddam probably was not tied to 9/11.

    The Bush administration didn't want to hear that so they did what any good exec would do -- They fired him.
  • They claimed their pre-war planning included plenty of troops to handle foreseeable problems in the aftermath of their invasion, despite warnings from Army Chief of Staff, Eric Shinseki that they would need around 400,000 troops to do the job.

    The Bush administration didn't want to hear that so they did what any good exec would do -- They fired him.
Since then, they have continued to lie to the American public and the world and to commit countless other crimes in an effort to cover their tracks, including outing a covert CIA operative, lying about doing so and lying about lying about it. :|
He isn't a dictator.
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... YET!... if we're lucky. See my sig. They're getting too damned close for comfort. If he's not a dictator, how can he claim personal exemptions from obeying the laws of the nation, including the U.S. Constitution? :|
An independently freely elected congress went along with him.
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No! An uninformed and a Congress that was intentionally misled and misinformed by the Bushwackos authorized him to use force as a last resort. Bush took that as an authorization to shoot first and not even bother with legitimate questions, then or since.

AFIC, that is criminal, and some of it constitutes treason. The deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and the torture of non-American prisoners are what add charges of war crimes. :|
 
Originally posted by: Forsythe
Berlusconi first, then Bush. But i doubt it's gonna be a international court.
Unless america comes to it's sensess.
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why would Americans want to see Bush stand before a world court?

If he ever did it would not be Bush at trial. I t wqould be America at trial!!
 
Originally posted by: Harvey
Originally posted by: filterxg
I oppose Bush, but he's not an international criminal.
Click to expand...
The Bush administration lied to the American public about why they launched a useless, elective war that has killed thousands of American troops and wounded tens of thousands more, as well as killing and wounding many tens of thousands more Iraqi civilians, and in doing so, they have spent us into trillions of dollars of debt that will remain a burden on our society for generations to come. They did so while offering continuously shifting alleged reasons for this actions:
  • There was no yellow cake uraniium in Niger.
  • There were no aluminum tubes capable of being used in centrifuges process nuclear material.
  • There were no facilities for making nerve gas or biological weapons.
  • There were no long range rockets.
  • There were no WMD's.
They ignored any information from competent internal sources that ran counter to their ambitions:
  • They ignored all warnings about the possiblity of an attack like 9/11, despite explicit warnings from people like Richard Clarke, former terrorisim advisor to Presidents Reagan, Bush Sr. and Clinton. Richard Clarke also warned Bush that Saddam probably was not tied to 9/11.

    The Bush administration didn't want to hear that so they did what any good exec would do -- They fired him.
  • They claimed their pre-war planning included plenty of troops to handle foreseeable problems in the aftermath of their invasion, despite warnings from Army Chief of Staff, Eric Shinseki that they would need around 400,000 troops to do the job.

    The Bush administration didn't want to hear that so they did what any good exec would do -- They fired him.
Since then, they have continued to lie to the American public and the world and to commit countless other crimes in an effort to cover their tracks, including outing a covert CIA operative, lying about doing so and lying about lying about it. :|
He isn't a dictator.
Click to expand...
... YET!... if we're lucky. See my sig. They're getting too damned close for comfort. If he's not a dictator, how can he claim personal exemptions from obeying the laws of the nation, including the U.S. Constitution? :|
An independently freely elected congress went along with him.
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No! An uninformed and a Congress that was intentionally misled and misinformed by the Bushwackos authorized him to use force as a last resort. Bush took that as an authorization to shoot first and not even bother with legitimate questions, then or since.

AFIC, that is criminal, and some of it constitutes treason. The deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis and the torture of non-American prisoners are what add charges of war crimes. :|
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so you part of this 9/11 conspiracy theorie also?
Hey martha another one of them fellows.
 
Lets see---the allegation is that Bush is just a politician--who just exagerated certain prewar facts--and got not a total permission from congress--but not a total no either.--and with that he invaded a soveign country--without a defacto UN permission either.

Well, it just seems to me that he is alot like a fellow named Togo---the fellow who took Japan to war and was the driving force behind the Pearl Harbor sneak attack.

They didn't have any trouble with that decision in the Hague---they just hanged Togo by the neck until he was dead dead dead. Why is GWB any different from Togo?

Maybe the brighter few will argue the US has not lost a war---------------------------yet!

But if the forces be with it---this proud United States Citizen would just love to see GWB sent to the Hague---I would be saying good riddance to bad rubbish.--and we could end a long national nightmare.--and could rejoin the international community.
 
While people such as Koffee Annan have called the Iraq war "illegal," I have difficulty imagining some world court indicted Bush. As far as I know, there has been virtually no discussion to do so either. They could if they wanted.

The only thing I can see that might be criminal, in the international sense of the word, is the holding of prisoners at Gitmo and the alleged torture. No one has really raised much of a fuss about this.
 
The people who began and supported this travesty in Iraq constantly request those of us who opposed it from the start to suggest how we can possibly bring the unprovoked invasion of Iraq to a "successful" conclusion.

Listen, the ONLY way we'll ever begin to bring the horror we've caused in Iraq to a "successful" conclusion is if bush, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz, perle, rice, powell -- the entire bush administration -- is brought to trial for the naked aggression, the war crimes, the abuses, the war profiteering, the corruption, EVERYTHING THEY'VE DONE IN IRAQ.

Without taking that first step, Iraq will NEVER come to a "successful" conclusion.

You have to treat the cause before you can cure the effects.
 
Oh, and don't forget Kristol and that PNAC crowd too. We don't seem to be hearing much from them these days. Or only, perhaps, in that madman cheney's wild rants about Iran.
 
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