Could and should President Bush be charged with war crimes?

Question

I'm generally a very conservative thinker and voter. I voted for President Bush, Pat Buchanan, and was a huge Rick Santorum follower (I won't lie), but I'm really happy Bush's time is coming to an end. I honestly haven't seen such a disaster in a Cabinet and administration since Bill Clinton's first term. I get tired of hearing about the hundreds of troops getting killed daily. I'm not anti-war by any means, but right now I am just beginning to think that he's just trying to give his father street credit (no i'm not brainwashed by the "liberal media"). What are your thoughts? Maybe I'm just ready for a drastic change in the way our government is run. I'm also not a "feminazi" but I'm starting to think that white males have really been screwing up our government since Reagan's term was up.

Oh and for Mr. "shut up hillary"...she did a pretty good job running the country her first 2 terms, and how do you know I wasn't referring to Ms. Rice as a nominee for President.

To the man that questioned the troops getting killed daily? What rock do you live under that you don't hear of them dying?

And yes, my dear, I am angry. When I vote for someone, I want them to listen to what their constituants want, not have a pissing contest with the Democrats.

Oh keep in mind I did NOT state that he should be charged with war crimes. I asked what everyone thought about it.

Answer 1

not just bush but tony blair as well. both of them underestimated the total number of lives that have been lost because of this folly war. he is as guilty as saddam hussein himself and besides, it wasn't he who bombed the twin towers and destroyed the lives of thousands of americans on 9/11 5 years ago- that was bin laden, and still he hasn't been caught. britain and america, because of bush and blair, invaded iraq, on their assumption that there were weapons of mass destruction, when that was a complete lie. the only good thing to come out of this terrible mess is capturing saddam. otherwise, this war on terror has turned out to be blair and bush's war OF terror. so my answer is yes they should be tried for war crimes- it's mainly because of their actions that we have lost so many troops in the line of fire. they screwed up big time

Answer 2

President Bush did what he thought was right for this country. He stood up for his principles when he was being attacked by the media and the Democratic party on a daily basis, and nothing's changed.

The facts are that we've lost 3,205 good men and women in this war. The Iraqi police have lost 6,271 in 1/2 that time. Insurgents killed are 55,000 +/- since the end of the official war and the beginning of the insugency.

Equating that with let's say WWII, the US had 407,000 dead during that war, with a total of 18.3 million dead for the entire world, and that's just the military deaths, not the civilians, which is twice as much. That war went on for what, 6 years.

Think about this as well. If we were fighting just the Iraqi's this war would have been over in 6 months from start to finish. We're fighting the Iranians and the Syrian's as well, not to mention all of the other extremist muslim degenerates who think that the US is the great satan. We've killed 55,000 insurgents, and most of them aren't Iraqi's. There's a hidden war here and the US is not allowed to participate fully because of the politics. This is what happened in Viet Nam, and this is what the liberal media and the ultra left of this country are shooting for now, they really want a Republican Viet Nam, no matter how many US lives it costs ultimately.

Don't be fooled by those calling for an immediate pullout. that would be the biggest mistake of the century. We need to stay the course, support our troops and our President and get Iran and Syria out of Iraq.

Bill Clinton was Impeached because he lied to Congress and to the American people, including his wife. George W. Bush hasn't pulled any punches and hasn't lied once to the American people, or his wife. He's a straight shooter and stands by his statements. Every time the liberal media tries to catch him in a lie, they have to retract the story because they haven't figured out how to put facts in front of partisan politics.

Don't believe all you watch on TV, most of it's got an agenda behind it either way. Do your homework and get yourself educated before you rush headlong into the left leaning media's trap.

Answer 3

The Administration and President have commited NO CRIMES...so charges and impeachment won't or can't take place.

Where did you find the figure of hundreds of troops??? The 4 year average would be 2.4 a day...far cry from hundreds.

White males??? White male have been running the country since day one....Maybe we are due for a change, but so far there is no choices available..

Answer 4

If your not brainwashed how can you claim that hundreds of troops are getting killed every day. The war has gone on for four full years now and over 3000 troops have been killed(some by normal operational accidents). If you consider that 3500 US soldiers have been killed since it began that works out to .4 killed per day.

I am guessing since you are claiming you are not all the terms used to define Liberals by a couple of popular Conservative talk show hosts I am guessing you are full of it about being a very Conservative thinker.

Answer 5

Most likely no. Who's going to charge him? The senators that backed him for going to war?

While I would love to see Bush suffer the same demise as Saddam the reality is it will never happen. American politics will never bend to that point of charging our own "president" with war crimes. That would be an omission that democracy doesn't work.

Answer 6

i do no longer understand yet bin encumbered likes our new way of managing terrorists extra perfect than the Bush way. under the Bush administration we made them undergo slightly soreness with the intention to get preparation and shop American lives. Now, we suggestions them and attempt to construct their vanity so they'll like us and sometime might recover from the urge to kill us and our toddlers.

Answer 7

If your alquida or the telabon, than I'd understand about war crimes. but since he's protecting you and us, I'd say your NUTS. If it were'nt for what he did 9-11 would be a comon occurance here.Our troops are fighting the terriorists in Iraq and afganistan probley should be annilulating Iran at the same time to get rid of countries that are suppling the terriorists. SHAME ON YOU.

Answer 8

You ever heard of the Term "Innocent until proven guilty"? This applies to everyone, including the President. I thought Liberals liked to be politically correct. Where's the solid proof that he committed war crimes? Not assumptions, but proof. That's what I thought, there isn't any. The more people bring this stuff up, the sillier it makes them sound. Get over it already, it's pointless.

Answer 9

He and Rice, Cheney, Rumsfeld are all war criminals. But without the aggressive attacking spirit as Clinton haters, our congress probably will not go through the full length of put these four on trials.

Answer 10

If you charge the President with war crimes, then all the members of Congress who gave him authority to go to war should be charged as accomplices.