Is Bush a War Criminal??

Question

For violating 28 USC 2441?

Answer 1

For Afghanistan alone, nevermind Iraq, George Bush, as commander-in-chief, has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, violating both international and American law (both of which Bush clearly has contempt for, while he accuses others of going against civilization), in this sound legal judgment, supported with evidence and legal precedent by an international tribunal:

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR AFGHANISTAN
AT TOKYO
THE PEOPLE
Versus
GEORGE WALKER BUSH
President of the United States of America

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5855.htm

Furthermore, one of the main architects of the current disaster in Iraq, Richard Perle (who helped dream up and organize the Iraq invasion, along with his PNAC cronies, Paul Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al) has even come out and said the Iraq invasion was illegal. He thinks it was worth it, but then he is a psycopath, like everyone in the Bush administration, as the late, great Kurt Vonnegut points out, to those who might not have realized it yet (last link)

War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1089158,00.html


Custodians of Chaos - by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1691370,00.html#article_continue

(an excerpt):
"...I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: "C-Students from Yale".

George W Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka Christians, and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or PPs, the medical term for smart, personable people who have no consciences.

To say somebody is a PP is to make a perfectly respectable diagnosis, like saying he or she has appendicitis or athlete's foot. The classic medical text on PPs is The Mask of Sanity by Dr Hervey Cleckley, a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Medical College of Georgia, published in 1941. Read it!

Some people are born deaf, some are born blind or whatever, and this book is about congenitally defective human beings of a sort that is making this whole country and many other parts of the planet go completely haywire nowadays. These were people born without consciences, and suddenly they are taking charge of everything.

PPs are presentable, they know full well the suffering their actions may cause others, but they do not care. They cannot care because they are nuts. They have a screw loose!..."

Answer 2

Lets be honest....almost every president over the past 40 years....ought to be sitting in jail for something. And if we counted senators and congressmen....over half of these guys ought to be in jail. So where is the dividing line? This is what I always emphasize to people....once you open a can of beans....it ain't pretty.

War criminal? Its awful hard to put Bush in the league of Hitler. This is the problem with this entire USC 2441 episode. Its like writing tax code and fitting the crime with the intended criminal. You end up with something that you really didn't undersand or comprehend.

Answer 3

Starting wars on false evidence, obstructing invetsigations into 911. Absolutely without a doubt.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/7100


These are sociopathic predators - nothing more, nothing less - and we are foolish, to the point of acting as enablers, if we fail to call this what it is. This administration is a kleptocracy which came to town to grab everything it could grab, operating behind a hideously deceitful veil of generated fear and false security provision. Boiled down to its essence, this is little more than a classic protection racket writ large. Whether history will reveal that they manufactured 9/11, or purposely stood by and allowed it to happen, or simply screwed up the job of actually providing real national security, they in any case then milked that tragedy for everything it was worth, constantly sowing fear in the heartland, and offering the false promise of protection to a frightened public.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York.

Answer 4

Just because he's in violation of a codified law, doesn't make him a criminal. He has to be found guilty. And who's gonna put Bush on trial? Many U.S. Presidents have violated that law since it was made in 1909. To single out Bush would violate Due Process. Laws have no force if they are not used. That's just the way it works.

Answer 5

No I don't

(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.
(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime” means any conduct—
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
(2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;
(3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict; or
(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.

Answer 6

Bush isn't a war criminal, he did the best he could when the country was scared. I have no problem with the Patriot Act, but the NDAA is a different story. Obama is a hypocrite, to him, Bush is the epitome of evil, but he chooses to continue and expand his policies. @rmare: liberal outrage? I haven't any liberals criticize a single Obama action. @supa star: no one said saint specifically, but as I said, not much flak from the left on anything.

Answer 7

You have to realize those White House lawyers drafted him war power resolution that basically allow him to do whatever he wants to do in the name of national security. You could probably find some laws, international laws he violated or appears to violated. But I bet you won't convince those White House lawyers.

Answer 8

Nope

Answer 9

Absolutely. Both Bushes are war criminals. Basically they both are sort of like Hitler in our modern era you know?

Answer 10

i think he is, with many others in the government