Saturday, September 15, 2007

The War Crimes Case Against George Bush and his Minions

Iraq is a crime scene --Bush's crime scene where the evidence against him is found. A war of naked aggression, what Bush did to Iraq is a capital crime under US Codes, prohibited by the Nuremberg Principles which loom like a specter over his criminal administration. Nuremberg remains the most effective and damning indictment of anyone who would hijack the apparatus of state to wage wars of aggression or to perpetrate mass murder and/or torture under the cover of a national sovereignty.

The Nuremberg Charter is largely the result of work done by the US in the weeks and months following the collapse of the Third Reich. Because of Nuremberg, international law gives no cover to leaders of state, presidents, prime ministers, dictators, or princes. Under Nuremberg, all who would commit such crimes bear an individual and criminal responsibility though their crimes may have been done in the name of the state.
"If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us."

- George H.W. Bush
It's never too late to do the right thing!

-The Existentialist Cowboy

It was just last year, days after his resignation, that Time magazine reported that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in deep trouble for his role in US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Legal documents were filed in Germany seeking criminal investigations and prosecutions of Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior US officials and officers. At issue are the roles they played in illegal detentions and abuses at both Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs say that one of the witnesses who will testify on their behalf is former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all US military prisons in Iraq. Karpinski — who the lawyers say will be in Germany next week to publicly address her accusations in the case — has issued a written statement to accompany the legal filing, which says, in part: "It was clear the knowledge and responsibility [for what happened at Abu Ghraib] goes all the way to the top of the chain of command to the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ."

--Exclusive: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse, Time

There are good reasons for filing the charges in Germany.
European countries have a way of going after people in criminal cases that we're not familiar with in the US They have a procedure where human rights groups and others, as well as the victims themselves, can go and ask a prosecutor to investigate someone for criminal liability. In the US, of course, you can knock on a prosecutor's door but then he shuts it in your face and it's all over. In Germany and other European countries, if the prosecutor shuts the door in your face you can go to court and the prosecutor must have a valid reason for not investigating. So that's a big difference. Germany also has a law, like some other European countries are beginning to have, that says certain crimes are subject to prosecution no matter where in the world they're committed, and even if there's no connection between that particular country and the alleged crime. And certain crimes are considered so serious and so heinous that every country is considered to have an interest in prosecuting them.

--Michael Ratner, President, Center for Constitutional Rights

The allegations were filed by the International Federation for Human Rights, Germany's Republican Attorneys' Association, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
BACKGROUND BRIEF ONTHE CASE AGAINST RUMSFELD, GONZALES AND OTHERS

FILED IN GERMANY ON NOVEMBER 14, 2006

The November 14, 2006 criminal complaint is a request for the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of high-ranking US officials for authorizing war crimes in the context of the so-called “War on Terror.” The complaint is brought on behalf of 12 torture victims – 12 Iraqi citizens who were held at Abu Ghraib prison and one Guantánamo detainee – and is being filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV) and others, all represented by Berlin Attorney Wolfgang Kaleck. The complaint is related to a 2004 complaint that was dismissed, but the new complaint is filed with much new evidence, new defendants and plaintiffs, a new German Federal Prosecutor and, most important, under new circumstances that include the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense and the passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in the US, which attempts to grant officials retroactive immunity from prosecution for war crimes.

Executive Summary of the Complaint’s Allegations:

From Donald Rumsfeld on down, the political and military leaders in charge of ordering, allowing and implementing abusive interrogation techniques in the context of the “War on Terror” since September 11, 2001, must be investigated and held accountable.

The complaint alleges that American military and civilian high-ranking officials named as defendants in the case have committed war crimes against detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and in the US-controlled Guantánamo Bay prison camp.

The complaint alleges that the defendants “ordered” war crimes, “aided or abetted” war crimes, or “failed, as civilian superiors or military commanders, to prevent their commission by subordinates, or to punish their subordinates,” actions that are explicitly criminalized by German law. The US administration has treated hundreds if not thousands of detainees in a coercive manner, in accordance with “harsh interrogation techniques” ordered by Secretary Rumsfeld himself that legally constitute torture and/or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, in blatant violation of the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the 1984 Convention Against Torture and the 1977 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights – to all of which the United States is a party. Under international humanitarian treaty and customary law, and as re-stated in German law, these acts of torture and/or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment constitute war crimes.

The US torture program that resulted in war crimes was aided and abetted by the government lawyers also named in this case: former Chief White House Counsel (and current Attorney General) Alberto R. Gonzales, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, General Counsel of the Department of Defense William James Haynes, II and Vice President Chief Counsel David S. Addington. While some of them claim to merely have given legal opinions, those opinions were false or clearly erroneous and given in a context where it was known and foreseeable to these lawyers that torture would be the result. Not only was torture foreseeable, but this legal advice was given to facilitate and aid and abet torture as well as to attempt to immunize those who tortured. Without these opinions, the torture program could not have occurred. The infamous “Torture Memo” dated August 1, 2002, is the key document that redefined torture so narrowly that such classic and age old torture techniques as water-boarding were authorized to be employed and were employed by US officials against detainees. ...

--THE CASE AGAINST RUMSFELD, GONZALES AND OTHERS FILED IN GERMANY ON NOVEMBER 14, 2006

All these charges must be revised or updated to include Bush himself. Certainly, given his dictatorial style nothing was done but upon his order. In the case of Rumsfeld, it is simply inconceivable that the policies leading directly to the Abu Ghraib atrocities were not ordered by Bush or agreed to in meetings between the two conspirators.

The US itself had taken a strong position with regard to Nazi war criminals. Winston Churchill had proposed that they be shot summarily. An international position, supported by the US, established the concept that has since become international law. That principle makes it a war crime to launch a war of aggression. The US attack and invasion of Iraq is, on its face, such a crime. The Bush administration made a fraudulent case to the UN, evidence that it knew Hussein did not have WMD but was intent upon war in any case.
Principle Vl

The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:
  1. Crimes against peace:
    1. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
    2. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
  2. War crimes:
    Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
  3. Crimes against humanity:
    Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.
  4. --Principles of Nuremberg

These were the charges that the chief US prosecutor, Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), brought against German Nazi leaders for judgment at Nuremberg. As Justice Jackson put it: "We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it."

We must work to bring about the equivalent of an international Nuremberg trial for the Bush administration, the American perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Guantánamo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the CIA's secret prisons. There is no dearth of evidence. Much of it is available from documented international reports by human-rights organizations. Our own Democratic congress, however, seems to have conceded the lead to European leaders who have already begun to assess the mountains of evidence that accuse Bush and principles in his administration. There will be an investigation, but that it is not done by our own congress is tragic --a fact that may have wider consequences.
...armed groups opposed to the US-led multinational force and Iraq's government are showing utter disdain for the lives of Iraqi civilians and others, continuing a pattern of war crimes and crimes against humanity".
The rest of the case may be hard to press --not because Bush is innocent but because the record of his war crimes is being re-written as we write and post. It's Orwellian. Whomever controls the narrative, controls the war and hence Bush's fate. The Bush team has worked mightily to dominate that narrative. They might have succeeded with each ex post facto rationale for war were it not for the internet. At this point, it is beyond even Bush to rewrite, re-program, or redesign every blog, every website, every post, every digital photo, every PDF file, every video clip on every computer, every hard drive, every server in the world. The top down MSM rolled over for the Bush gang of information thugs. An amorphous web is new terrain, a different topology. With any luck, it will continue to morph whenever Bushies have it in the cross hairs.

Physicists often talk of the "arrow of time" as if time consisted of a single path from past to future. In fact, the topology of time is much more complex. Even if expanding gases reversed themselves back into an opened jar, the new event could theoretically be recorded by a forward moving movie or video camera. For each such "reversal of time", for example, there is a theoretically infinite number of external timelines. Thus it is with Bush and his nemesis --the internet. A veritable Hydra, each severed head sprouts two, a hundred, ten thousand, a theoretically infinite number of new heads, new critics that will not shut up.
In view of the greatly expanded definition of "enemy combatants" in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which George W. Bush signed in October, the Pentagon would be well advised to greatly increase the number of cells in the new compound. Under the new law, the president can designate as "an enemy combatant" any noncitizen picked up anywhere in the world, even permanent legal alien residents here.

These newly imprisoned "enemy combatants" will include not only those engaged in direct hostilities against the United States, but also loosely defined "supporters" of the enemy.

Passionately arguing against this legislation on the Senate floor, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont claimed, "This provision would perpetuate the indefinite detention of hundreds of individuals . . . without any recourse to justice whatever. . . . This is un-American!"

--Bush's War Crimes Cover-up, The Supreme Court ordered him to treat detainees as "civilized peoples" do. He refuses, Nat Hentoff

Much is at stake, not the least of which, is whether or not our civilization has learned anything from several thousand years of bloody warfare, to include the genocides of Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot. Laws that exempt the powerful yet bring the weight of organized justice to bear upon only weaker nations is, in fact, no law at all but that of the jungle. If the human race will not behave civilly then it is doomed by the weapons of its own creation.
If we, the people, are ultimately condemned by a world court for our complicity and silence in these war crimes, we can always try to echo those Germans who claimed not to know what Hitler and his enforcers were doing. But in Nazi Germany, people had no way of insisting on finding out what happened to their disappeared neighbors.

We, however, have the right and the power to insist that Congress discover and reveal the details of the torture and other brutalities that the CIA has been inflicting in our name on terrorism suspects.

Only one congressman, Oregon's Democratic senator Ron Wyden, has insisted on probing the legality of the CIA's techniques—so much so that Wyden has blocked the appointment of Bush's nominee, John Rizzo, from becoming the CIA's top lawyer. Rizzo, a CIA official since 2002, has said publicly that he didn't object to the Justice Department's 2002 "torture" memos, which allowed the infliction of pain unless it caused such injuries as "organ failure . . . or even death." (Any infliction of pain up to that point was deemed not un-American.) Mr. Rizzo would make a key witness in any future Nuremberg trial.

--History Will Not Absolve Us, Nat Hentoff

Following are the last several paragraphs of Justice Robert Jackson's summation to the jury at Nuremberg. Everything said by Jackson can be said now of Bush, and with respect to "truth" of the GOP as a party. In this singular, important and defining characteristic, there is, in fact, no difference between the GOP and the Nazi Party of Hitler's Third Reich.
The record is full of other examples of dissimulations and evasions. Even Schacht showed that he, too, had adopted the Nazi attitude that truth is any story which succeeds. Confronted on cross-examination with a long record of broken vows and false words, he declared in justificationand I quote from the record:
"I think you can score many more successes when you want to lead someone if you don't tell them the truth than if you tell them the truth."
This was the philosophy of the National Socialists. When for years they have deceived the world, and masked falsehood with plausibilities, can anyone be surprised that they continue their habits of a lifetime in this dock? Credibility is one of the main issues of this Trial. Only those who have failed to learn the bitter lessons of the last decade can doubt that men who have always played on the unsuspecting credulity of generous opponents would not hesitate to do the same, now.

It is against such a background that these defendants now ask this Tribunal to say that they are not guilty of planning, executing, or conspiring to commit this long list of crimes and wrongs. They stand before the record of this Trial as bloodstained Gloucester stood by the body of his slain king. He begged of the widow, as they beg of you: "Say I slew them not." And the Queen replied, "Then say they were not slain. But dead they are..." If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.

<>--Justice Robert Jackson, Summation for the Prosecution by Justice Robert Jackson, July 26, 1946

Addendum

The following video exposes the multifarious and nefarious lies that Bush and his minions have told about Iraq to justify what is, in fact, the heinous and capital crimes that they have committed there. Among them WMD and the more insidious lie that Saddam had something to do with 911. Like everything else said by Bush, it is a bald-faced lie.

Lies Americans believe about the war in Iraq


Dick Cheney Wanted to Attack Iraq Immediately after 911


A reminder: Iraq had NOTHING to do with 911!


Rumsfeld and Bush charged with War Crimes


US Imperialist War Crimes In Iraq


US Army on Video Tape Perpetrating a War Crime


US War Crimes Video Taped


Emergency Summit to Impeach Bush 4 War Crimes, Rev. Yearwood

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19 comments:

Christopher said...

The “Democracy Now” clip, showing one in three Americans still believe Saddam was personally involved in 9/11, and that one half of Americans still believe WMDs were found in Iraq, confirms the findings in Shankar Vedantam’s article - to which I alluded in a previous comment – that the initial information which people get about anything, is the information which becomes the truth, no matter how much it is subsequently refuted.

Therefore, that so many Americans still believe in the above falsehoods about Saddam, 9/11, and WMDs should not be surprising. Perhaps we should only be pleasantly surprised that at least half of Americans no longer believe these falsehoods.

Regarding the Iraq invasion and the “war on terror", we shouldn’t forget how much the various European countries have clandestinely colluded with the US, despite the official rhetoric of European leaders, who might fear for their own selves should Bush and Cheney ever be indicted, which I somehow don’t think will happen, however deserved.

But, judging by what happened to General Pinochet when he visited Britain some years ago, and found himself unable to leave because of criminal charges filed against him in a Spanish court, the likes of Bush and Cheney may think twice about travelling outside the US after they leave office.

Because Britain belongs to the EU, and is therefore subject to the EU’s human rights laws, it is Tony Blair, rather than George Bush, who might find himself in legal hot waters if charges are ever filed against him in a court of any member country of the EU.

Diane B said...

George Bush, realizes he may very well stand trial,once he leaves office. This may very well lead to martial law, to cover his ass.

Our Congress, at this point much is also guilty, for continuing to fund this War.

Len, thank you for giving me an understanding of the Nurenberg Trials and how they relate today to George Bush.

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christopher said...

But, judging by what happened to General Pinochet when he visited Britain some years ago, and found himself unable to leave because of criminal charges filed against him in a Spanish court, the likes of Bush and Cheney may think twice about traveling outside the US after they leave office.

Bush may find himself a prisoner of "his own device" i.e. he may be forever consigned to live in the hell he continues to make of the US. And who know? Depending upon HOW the Bush regime falls, a "new" US may willingly turn Bush over to the IC.

Diane B said...

thank you for giving me an understanding of the Nurenberg Trials and how they relate today to George Bush.

If you want a more dramatic intro to Nuremberg, try the late 90's production "Nuremberg" starring Alec Baldwin. With minor departures, it is accurate even to the portrayal of Dr. Gustav Gilbert, the psychologist. The portrayal of Goring by actor Brian Cox should have gotten an Oscar. Brilliant! Baldwin again proved himself a serious actor as Robert Jackson. I quoted from Jackson's summation. You will find this closing --word for word --in the movie version.

Another observation about the movie is the fact that the producers literally re-created the court room in almost every detail. It has got to be one of the most accurate such re-creations in "filmdom".

I can tell you from sources very close to me and likewise the trial, it was, indeed, a "trial", an extraordinary ordeal that took its toll on the judges, the attorneys, the witnesses, the spectators, the media, the defendants, interpreters and translators, indeed, anyone connected with the trial in any way.

Robert Jackson himself had not wanted to absent himself from the Supreme Court. But Truman was "persuasive" and, once on the job, Jackson was ever hopeful that the principles forged might help prevent the recurrence of such unspeakable tragedy.

Jackson's mocking nemesis was Goring, whose legacy mocks, even in death, Jackson's idealistic hopes for humankind. Goring early on launched a pre-emptive strike in anticipation of a guilty verdict. Before it was returned, he called it "victor's justice", an evil implication that WWII victors were, in fact, no different from the Nazis. How we deal with Bush will either prove Goring correct or it will prove him wrong. If Bush gets away with it, Goring will be laughing at us from his grave.

Diane B said...

Len,


Thank you for sharing about "Nurenberg, I plan on seeing that Movie,very soon.

Yes, if we do not convict Bush, of war crimes, Goring will be smiling from the grave.

Can you believe, how that qroup survived to produce two Presidents,and the first took office only 43 years later. I find that frighteningly amazing.

Diane B said...

Another reason we need to discredit Bush, is their family. Jeb, and all the other Bush members need to be stopped from ever being President. This family is corrupt, we need no more Bushes.

Anonymous said...

The war in Iraq fundamental concepts were to remove a tyrant who supported terrorism against the United States. Restoring order and putting in place policies that benefit the Iraqi are now the top priority of US official. Making any comparisons to Nazi Germany and Hitler with Pres. Bush is absurd. Restoring peace in a land of oppression does take sacrifice and time. In no way should the war in Iraq be compared to the travesties committed by top Nazi officials.

Anonymous said...

The war in Iraq is based on the fundamental concept of removing a tyrant who supported terrorism against the United States. Restoring order and putting in place policies that benefit the Iraqi people are now the top priority of US officials. Making any comparisons to Nazi Germany and Hitler with Pres. Bush is absurd. Restoring peace in a land of oppression does take sacrifice and time. In no way should the war in Iraq be compared to the travesties committed by top Nazi officials.

Anonymous said...

You need to read a bit more Kevin735. A LOT more.

Diane B said...

Yes, Kevin Damien is right, you need to read a lot more.

Len, has written, much on the Existentialist Cowboy, proving with out a doubt that, former President Bush's father an Investment Banking group helped fund their military build up prior to World War II. There is so much more to this story. Check out Len's previous postings, he has a wealth of information.

Diane B said...

Here is a very interesting link, which explains in depth how Prescott Bush and some very powerful families in America,tried to turn America into into a facist Country like Germany, and, Italy, before World war II.

There are some actual recordings from the Roosevelt era in the 1930's.

Diane B said...

Here is the link, from my previous comment, on Prescott Bush:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

Linda-Sama said...

another brilliant post, len!

honestly, I have no hope that if a Democrat becomes president that things will be get any better. I am sorry to say this. this govt. is in such a quagmire that it will take years before all this crap gets sorted out.

bush and his cronies should absolutely be tried for war crimes, but what hope is there in that? who will have the GUTS to charge them?

the Sinclair Lewis quote about fascism coming to Amerika wrapped in a flag carrying a cross haunts me, because it has already happened.

start the revolution now.

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Kevin735 said...

The war in Iraq fundamental concepts were to remove a tyrant who supported terrorism against the United States.

That's the "official" lie. Read the archives on this site.

The transcript of Ambassador April Glaspie's interview with Saddam Hussein on the eve of Hussein's invasion of Kuwait disproves your simplistic, official line.

Moreover, Hussein had not been thought a "tyrant" by the US until his oil production began to lower the price of oil. Few people in the US understand that when it's said that its about "oil", it's really about the PRICE of oil. GOP administrations favor higher prices --not lower. Bush and the American oil industry have no interest in lowering oil prices.

Additionally, the US has never had a problem supported or propping up tyrants. As long as Saddam was "their" tyrant, all was fine. It was when Saddam began producing more oil than oil barons desired that the trouble started. Bush Sr's actions in the wake of war prove conclusively that the US never had humanitarian or democratic intentions in Iraq.

Restoring order and putting in place policies that benefit the Iraqi are now the top priority of US official.

That's the official line. In fact, they don't give a shit.

Making any comparisons to Nazi Germany and Hitler with Pres. Bush is absurd.

That Bush committed the same crimes is NOT an analogy, it's a statement of fact. Bush, in fact, committed war crimes --Hitler or no! Whether he is to be compared otherwise is quote beside the point. Do you know anything about law? Read the actual statutes that I cited?

But since you brought it up --yes, Bush can be compared to Hitler in many ways. Intelligence, however, is not one of them.

Restoring peace in a land of oppression does take sacrifice and time. In no way should the war in Iraq be compared to the travesties committed by top Nazi officials.

Stop drinking the kool-aid, it's bad for your health and worse for your intelligence. If the US had had a legitimate case for war against Iraq, it might have made a truthful case for same at the UN. Instead, Colin Powell's presentation was a deliberate fraud from start to finish. Powell himself later apologized for it but not soon enough to avoid a the very worst foreign policy blunder --EVER!

The war in Iraq is based on the fundamental concept of removing a tyrant who supported terrorism against the United States.

The US foreign policy was never based upon removing tyrants who support terrorism. In fact, the US has a history of supporting terrorism itself. Read prosecutor Lawrence Walsh's final report of the Iran/Contra affair.

In no way should the war in Iraq be compared to the travesties committed by top Nazi officials.

Fact: the US invasion of Iraq in which some 600,000 to one million Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces IS war crime, specifically, a war of aggression. A first year law student could make the war crimes case against George W. Bush. In addition to the Nuremberg violations, Bush has violated US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441, which reads:

§ 2441. War crimes

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

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Linda (Sama) said...

bush and his cronies should absolutely be tried for war crimes, but what hope is there in that? who will have the GUTS to charge them?

The charges, as I understand, have already been filed in the appropiate court in Germany.

When Bush no longer has command of the US army, he might be brought to justice.

That's why the people of the US must inform themselves. If a new regime turns out to be nothing more than Bush-lite, very little may be accomplished.

But, the Nazis likewise enjoyed all the protections of state. In the end, they were reduced to hiding out in South America.

Unknown said...

Note: I have added a link to Ramsey Clark's book: "War Crimes" to the "Additional Resources" section just below the body of the article.

Anonymous said...

Thank you again, Len, for your great work. I'm making way through some of your links. The whole post is a terrific resource to refer people to. There's been a recent survey by Opinion Research Business (ORB), a UK polling agency that has been tracking public opinion in Iraq since 2005. According to their scientific polling - which confirms the findings of an earlier Lancet study - more than 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have been murdered since the invasion took place in 2003. In this new survey of 1,461 Iraqi households 78% of them had no deaths, 16% had one death, 5% had two deaths and 1% had three or more deaths. Using well tried polling techniques this means 1,220,580 Iraqis have died since the 2003 invasion. No-one should be able to pretend any longer about the scale of these war crimes. The media silence on these issues is shameful.

Linda-Sama said...

"The charges, as I understand, have already been filed in the appropriate court in Germany."

I don't watch much TV anymore...but I'd love to see Sean Hannity's and Ann Coulter's heads explode over that bit of news! :)

hizzoner said...

Great Post Len,

A couple of interesting points...

First, I understand the Bush family has purchased a rather large tract of land in ECUDOR...hmmmmm ...is that insurance against possible war crime charges? Or, perhaps even against domestic (United States ) Criminal indictments?

Interesting speculation...

Next, our good friend Steve Day over at Last Chance Democracy Cafe (here's the "linky-thing" http://www.lastchancedemocracycafe.com/?p=1012) tackles the issue that good progressives/liberals have been struggling with for a while: "Impeach or Don't Impeach". He (through his wonderfully rich in character fictional denizens of "the cafe") comes up with a novel approach.

Enjoy

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Linda (Sama) said...

I'd love to see Sean Hannity's and Ann Coulter's heads explode over that bit of news! :)

LOL some people would love to see their heads explode over any bit of news.

hizzoner said...

First, I understand the Bush family has purchased a rather large tract of land in ECUDOR.

You're right, hizzoner. The Bush's have bought land in South America but it's Paraquay. Here's a bit from Wonkette: "The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border." Yep! Nazis have been known to flee to South America....

And thanks for the Last Chance Democracy Cafe. I think it's gotten to the point where Democrats will pay a price for not impeaching. The very fact that the issue is debated in those terms indicates a growing perception that Democrats are playing politics with the issue.

damien said...

this means 1,220,580 Iraqis have died since the 2003 invasion. No-one should be able to pretend any longer about the scale of these war crimes. The media silence on these issues is shameful.

But the GOP will excuse Bush because his body count is not yet as high as Hitler's. That's the way the GOP thinks.