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specially since he never had UN approval and invaded Iraq and Afganhastan anyway?
I suppose this is a relative question. As a sovereign nation... the U.S. is not legally obligated to obtain permission from any other body before declaring war by U.S. law. Congress ceded war powers to the executive. Bush and his administration were obligated to uphold the Geneva Conventions as the U.S. is a signatory... and the U.S. War Crimes Act states that a breach of the conventions is grounds to prosecute. Enhanced interrogation... the Nigerian Yellow Cake Fraud... indiscriminate drone bombings... I think there are enough reasons to bring George W Bush... D!ck Cheney... Douglas Feith... Paul Wolfowitz... Richard Perle... Michael Ledeen... all up on charges.
There are many more prople to bring charges against for other abuses. Any bureaucrat complicit with the usurpation of civil rights via the Patriot and Military commissions acts should be held accountable by the American justice system. Those responsible for the events of 9/11 and the murd@r of 3000 Americans read: D!ck Cheney... Douglas Feith... Paul Wolfowitz... Richard Perle... Michael Ledeen... Larry Silverstein... should likewise be brought to justice. It is absurd in light of all the evidence implicating these men... that we have yet to demand an independent investigation into 9/11. Philip Zelikow... a member of the Bush cabinet... was not an impartial director of investigations.
Should President Obama maintain his directive denying habeas corpus and authorizing assassinations of U.S. citizens... then he should be impeached... at the least.
I don't see anything happening any time soon... as long as the proletariat remain blissfully ignorant.
Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame is the controlled opposition. Wikileaks is a disinfo operation. It releases old info along with info conspicuously favorable to the war agenda's line. No wonder a man so wanted by the CIA maintains such a public persona.
You are talking about two different wars, Afghanistan and Iraq. As I see it our military actions in Afghanistan were justified since the nation was in anarchy and was being widely used as a headquarters and training ground for Al Qaeda and similar groups. Iraq on the other hand had nothing to do with 9/11. Saddam Hussein was enemies with Al Qaeda rather than a collaborator and the UN had accounted for the vast majority of Weapons of Mass Destruction known to exist after the first Gulf war. UN inspections and sanctions were not perfect but were generally working.
Ideally President George W Bush should have to answer for the thousands of American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives that were lost because he attacked and invaded Iraq.
It has been shown that all the "evidence" used to justify the Iraq war was highly suspect, greatly exaggerated, or entirely bogus. His rush to war under the guise of preventing an inevitable Iraqi strike was misguided if not dishonest.
If George W Bush gets away with this level of killing than future leaders will assume that they too can do things like this with impunity.
It is still something that should be investigated. Did he really have reason to believe Iraq had stockpiles of WMDs and active biological and nuclear programs? At the time he claimed he did but history has shown him to be incorrect. If the best information he had at the time was that Iraq was a threat than why not after the fact look at the intelligence he had at the time? If we accept the excuse "I thought I was doing the right thing at the time" than that does leave the door open to a lot of things.
there has been lots of speculation about the evidence that "leaked" to the public chances are a lot of it is made up. US documents, especially those involving national security and war, are kept very secret and are often protected very well. even if there were documents and evidence that did leak for whatever reason, i still do not think it is right to punish the Bush administration for these actions
the decisions george bush made during his presidency are decisions we cannot change, and he made them because he believed they were appropriate at the time, so no i do not believe he or his administration should be jailed, when all they were trying to do was restore peace
I believe G W Bush was our first mentally challenged President. His whole Administration should be on trial, especially Cheney, GW’s puppetmaster.
what about all this evidence and documents that have been made public on wikileaks?
I totally agree, and well written :)
