Should Bush answer to War Crimes?

Answer 1

The Following are all crimes commited and are grounds for Impeachment :

1. He lied us into war in Iraq. According to the U.S. media-ignored British "Downing Street Memo," he "fixed" intelligence around a pre-determined policy of preemptive war. Results: 500,000 Iraqi civilian deaths; about 2034 U.S. soldiers dead in two wars, 100s of thousands wounded and traumatized.

2. Under his watch, the U.S. suffered its worst terrorist attack on its soil. He opposed an official investigation, then stalled for months on testifying before a hand-picked committee. Finally testified behind closed doors.

3. He was "elected" under dubious circumstances in 2000.

4. He was "elected" under dubious circumstances in 2004.

5. He has approved (and his Attorney General Gonzales has re-defined) torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and elsewhere, while simultaneously opposing the International Criminal Court established to check such abuses. According to Amnesty International, the United States has established a Soviet-style "gulag" of torture around the world.

6. He failed to support the Kyoto Protocols, reducing greenhouse gases, but worked to open up Alaska's ANWR to drilling-despoiling an eco-system and increasing greenhouse gases.

7. He chose Halliburton toady Dick Cheney to be his running mate-twice.

8. He has attempted to pack the courts with ideologue-judges intent on overthrowing Roe v. Wade, and institutionalizing the police-state abuses of Patriot Acts I and II.

9.His "No Child Left Behind" education policies have replaced learning with testing and allowed military recruiters access to our schools, cajoling our children with military options before their minds have had a chance to open, question and challenge.

10.He is attempting to dismantle the Social Security system that has ensured "peace and freedom" for tens of millions of working Americans for seven decades ("peace" of mind and "freedom" from economic crises)-- rights hard-won by Labor and Progressives in decades-long struggles.

11. He has allied himself with Right-wing ideologues to curtail or abolish stem-cell research vital to the conquest of debilitating and fatal diseases.

12. He has failed to develop a coherent energy policy-except to prosecute wars for other peoples' resources. He fails to acknowledge the reality and impending disasters of Global Warming.

13. He has continued the Globalization project of his predecessors: outsourcing jobs, hollowing our middle class.

14. He has undermined the legitimate protective protocols of the C.I.A., politicizing the agency, awarding positions on the basis of ideological orthodoxy rather than merit and astute analysis.

15. He has subjugated his Administration to Neocon ideologues like Richard Perle, William Kristol and Douglas Feith; men who have endorsed the "settlement," expansionist and Wall-them-in policies of Ariel Sharon, sowing the seeds of anti-Arab racism, war and destruction in the Middle East for generations to come.

16. In spite of his rhetoric about freedom and democracy, he has allied himself with dictators in Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Egypt and elsewhere. He has increased the flow of arms to these states and others, fomenting instability, turmoil and war.

17. He chose Rumsfeld as DoD Secretary twice, in spite of Rumsfeld's obvious failure to adequately plan for the post-Saddam era in Iraq, inducing massive "collateral damage," the looting of ancient treasures, and infrastructure destruction in a country we were legally and morally bound to rehabilitate.

18. He endorses the weaponization of space, "Rods from Gods," and other exotic, Star-Wars technologies to establish a twenty-first century American global empire that is doomed to create an arms race with China and other opposing coalitions, sowing discord and wasting the resources of the world.

19. He has presided over the most egregious media consolidation in the nation's history. While we have had "yellow journalism" and other media abuses throughout our two centuries of Republic/Empire, we have never suffered the consolidation of power that we have today. He has presided over the emasculation and cowering of PBS, while his disinformation troops have peddled fraudulent stories and comments to "reporters" like Judith Miller, Armstrong Williams and Jeff Guckert-"Gannon," poisoning the well of information, adding to the general confusion and Goebbelsization of our news.

20. He lied about, misled, or misunderstood the astronomical costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He continues to do so, diverting tax money for education, health care, the EPA, transportation and social infrastructure into war-making and destruction.

21. He has continued and enlarged the depraved Clinton policy of using depleted uranium on the battlefield; a policy bound to cause massive suffering and death to Americans and others for generations to come.

22. He has alienated our traditional allies and more than a billion Muslims around the world. He has ransacked the good will extended to the nation after the 9/11 attacks, leading a crusade of vengeance and reprisal, most often against innocents, judging without sufficient evidence, arrogating to himself a crooked, self-righteous Texas sheriff's power to execute without justice.

23. Under his watch, millions more Americans have been added to the ranks of the uninsured while health-care costs have exploded. His answer to these and other pressing social problems appears to be faith-based charities-in other words, preaching to the choir while stealing from the pews.

24. Under his watch, the North Koreans have, apparently, developed eight nuclear weapons and Israel has continued to increase and refine its arsenal-now estimated as high as five hundred.

25. He has murdered the English language.

Answer 2

He definately should. I think almost every president in the USA has to answer for war crimes...they have done so many bad things in th world. Bush is one of them. How many innocent civilians were killed in Bush's reign of terror? Killing people ( even his own) for oil is a good argument to be used as war crimes! This hole adminisration is a messed up! Going to war, for a reason that never existed (weapons of mass destruction), and therefore killing lots of people ( for nothing!!!!!) is a war crime.

Answer 3

seem guy, the following is slightly flavor of actuality: Obama is the commander in chief now, and he takes over the position W left off with Iraq, and has indicated he needs to dedicate extra potential to fixing issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan. If leftists want to pursue trials antagonistic to Bush and Cheney for warfare crimes, then Obama would ok be accountable of similar crimes down the line, because issues befell on his watch (like yet another Abu Ghraib incident). it will be stupid to attempt this to Bush and Cheney and probability installation Obama for warfare crimes. or maybe if or not they tried, an excellent style of the evidence will be categorized and so the widely used public doesn't understand what is going on at those trials, or it would jeapordize united statesa.'s ability to guard itself from terrorists if inner most information of its classes are printed. Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for warfare crimes purely undermines united statesa..

Answer 4

Yes, you would be and idiot to think that Bush will answer for his war crimes. He will hide behind words. But he 'should' have to.

Answer 5

The key word in your short question is "Should". A better question would be created by changing that word to "Will". As winners tend to write history and control the courts, and so far, most of the US of America seems to think he is some sort of Angel for God, it is doubtful that anything will ever happen to him. Of course, if another incident as big as Watergate was for Nixon occurs, (along with the damning tapes he made in his office) who knows what will happen. The fickle American public could turn on him. Depends on if he can continue the bread and circuses for the masses.

Answer 6

If Bush can't respect the United Nations and all the other countries United Nations represent, why on earth is he not pulled
out to start with?

Answer 7

It is my dream to see him and his band of merry men dragged down the white house steps in hand cuffs and leg irons wearing orange jump suits. Taken to the Hague for international trial. They are all there, Rummy, Cheney, Condi, ect. The world could sleep a little better knowing that these terriorist are out of commision.

Answer 8

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country"
Hermann Göring 1944(Nazi)

Answer 9

Get over it!
Bush won the election!
Not once, TWICE!
President Clinton was impeached for lying in a court of law.
Do you think he should have paid some price?

I didn't think so.

Answer 10

Only if there is proof that he sent the troops in just to kick some muslim butt and not because he thought Iraq was getting ready to further attack the US. And lets face it, the man isn't that smart

Answer 11

What a question!
To whom should he reply?
The ones who are judging are the ones who push him to all of his policies, strategies, crimes!
The masses, who feel unjustified, are always run around to secure one more day in life, they have no strategy, no power, no organization to act or react!