Is Bush a war criminal?

Question

Many from other countries and the U.S. believe that he is.

They believe this because he invaded Iraq because of WMD's...there were no WMD's.

They believe this because he and his administration insinuated that Iraq was involved in our terrible national tragedy of 9-11...Iraq was not.

They believe this because he and his AG, Gonzalez allowed torture...they certainly did.

Answer 1

Without a doubt.

"Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference."
Stephen Kinzer

"And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions ... and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
George Orwell, 1984

"The United States has no tradition of subordinating itself to international treaty-based law, and it has no interest in a world order in which military force becomes operational only as a last resort."
Peter Gowan

"The problem the United States faces is that almost all of its invasions violate international law, and sometimes, as in the case of Iraq, in a blatant manner. So how do the political elite and the news media reconcile this contradiction? Simple: They ignore it. It is virtually unthinkable for a mainstream U.S. reporter to even pursue this issue."
John Nichols and Robert McChesney

"The fact is ... that when totalitarian nations like China and Saudi Arabia play ball with U.S. business interests, we like them just fine. But when Venezuela's freely elected president threatens powerful corporate interests, the Bush administration treats him as an enemy."
Robert Scheer

"To initiate a war of aggression ... is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany - 1946

"We live in a nation hated abroad and frightened at home. A place in which we can reasonably refer to the American Republic in the past tense. A country that has moved into a post-constitutional era, no longer a nation of laws but an autotocracy run by law breakers, law evaders and law ignorers. A nation governed by a culture of impunity ... a culture in which corruption is no longer a form of deviance but the norm. We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now."
Sam Smith

"If the U.S. really believes that supporting terrorists makes you as guilty as the terrorists themselves, then it would have to put on trial most of its military and political leadership over the last handful of administrations, and more."
Peter McClaren

"The United States is the greatest threat to world peace, and has been for a long time, and not merely because it is the world's only superpower. Equally important, the United States is also far more disposed to use its power than any other powerful nation currently is. Though Americans are culturally and emotionally blind to the fact, the mere intrusion of US power is, in and of itself, destabilizing."
T.D. Allman

"[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy."
Michael Parenti

"From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair."
William Blum

"This country is in the grip of a President who was not elected, who has surrounded himself with thugs in suits who care nothing about human life abroad or here, who care nothing about freedom abroad or here, who care nothing about what happens to the earth... The so-called war on terrorism is not only a war on innocent people in other countries, but it is also a war on the people of the United States: a war on our liberties, a war on our standard of living. The wealth of the country is being stolen from the people and handed over to the superrich. The lives of our young are being stolen. And the thieves are in the White House."
Howard Zinn

"George Bush and corporate America are intent on eliminating taxes on all capital incomes. Nor do they care if record budget deficits are the result. Many of their more right-wing friends, including those in Congress, actually want larger deficits. They see chronic, record deficits as producing the budget crisis necessary to use as an excuse to privatize Social Security and dismantle what remains of the Roosevelt New Deal programs of the 1930s."
Jack Rasmus

"[The Right] lie with impunity. Let's face it. They're liars. They lied about the reason they took our sons and daughters to war. They spend millions of dollars in campaign ads saying they are for a prescription drug benefit under Medicare while they work to destroy Medicare and replace it with private plans and HMOs. They call their dirty air legislation "Clear Skies" and their plan to give the timber companies our trees, "Healthy Forests." They call their job-killing economic program a "jobs program." They say they are for peace when they are for war. Millions of children are left behind under their miserly "No Child Left Behind" education bill. They tout a child tax credit for working families and then silently drop it in favor of more tax cuts for millionaires."
Rep. Jan Schakowsky

"The U.S. record of war crimes has been, from the nineteenth century to the present, a largely invisible one, with no government, no political leaders, no military officials, no lower-level operatives held accountable for criminal actions... Anyone challenging this mythology is quickly marginalized, branded a traitor or Communist or terrorist or simply a lunatic beyond the pale of reasonable discussion."
Carl Boggs

"[American leaders] are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care ... the same that could be said about a sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to them ... then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars and who come home - the ones who make it back alive - with Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies. American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things."
William Blum

"The U.S. is a signatory to nine multilateral treaties that it has either blatantly violated or gradually subverted. The Bush Administration is now outright rejecting a number of those treaties, and in doing so, places global security in jeopardy, as other nations feel entitled to do the same. The rejected treaties include: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), the Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM). The U.S. is also not complying with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Commission (CWC), the BWC, and the U.N. framework Convention on Climate Change."
Project Censored 2005

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"What happened was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to be governed by surprise, to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security ...
To live in the process is absolutely not to notice it -- please try to believe me -- unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, regretted.
Believe me this is true. Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we did nothing) ... You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair. "
German professor after World War II describing the rise of Nazism to a journalist

"The goal of conservative rulers around the world, led by those who occupy the seats of power in Washington, is the systematic rollback of democratic gains, public services, and common living standards around the world."
Michael Parenti

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Who cares what other countries think, they believe the BS shoveled out by the democraps who also said Iraq had WMD's. Iraq did have them, that's been proven. Iraq did have involvement with terrorists, that's been proven.
They've allowed less torture than those other countries and the incompetent clinton/reno administration...more democrap hypocrisy.

Answer 4

I think he is - for the unwarranted, unjustified invasion of another country. It's that simple.

Many people that argue he isn't point at the United Nations definition. Not only does the UN definition of war crimes have lines regarding illegal, aggressive and unjustified invasions of other countries, but the same people who are trying to argue Bush isn't a war criminal according to United Nations law are the usually the same people who argued that the United Nations is a weak, ineffective organisation for supposedly not doing anything about Iraq. Are these people wishy, or washy?

Answer 5

Yes and No!
Yes! Because his is responsible for the deaths of more than 3700 American men and women and 600,000 Iraqis. It is indisputable that if Bush had not been elected most of these people would be alive and thriving today.

No! because he will never be caught with a smoking gun in his hand. As most shady war criminals of the past his posture is that he is fighting for a political cause to promote a better world, he has people that do the dirty work of torturing and killing for him, these few hundreds of thousand of dead men women and children were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.

My assessment: He is an American president which pulls a lot of weight in this world, and he will never be tried for anything, not even a drunk driving ticket.

Answer 6

The major war criminals of our world history have often gone unpunished. Bush has abused his power and used peoples emotions regarding "9/11' to invade Iraq. First, bush was certain there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Then all you heard about were the terrible things Saddam has done to his people and how he has "abused his power". Now its back to the war on terror. None of these reasons make sense, so that leaves one possible hidden secret....oil

Bush is a criminal, just as Saddam was.

Answer 7

No, and don't be silly.
AND "there were no WMD's."
Now you are really funny, you need to do your homework instead of parroting the goofy propaganda line.

Torture? don't be silly

How soon they forget!........."We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians," said Mr. Kerry. "We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest." - Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), 1997

How soon they forget! "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998

How soon they forget! "Hussein has . chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies." - Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999

Answer 8

The Hague hasn't charged him yet so he must not be.

Let the "others" from the other countries try to come get him, and as far as the ones from the U.S. who believe he is-----tough!

As far as the WMD's----maybe the UN should let us look through their offices to see if there are any more vials there.

Answer 9

You wouldn't know torture from interogation without your high dollar lawyer at your side.

You sound more like a war criminal to me. Ever heard or Tokoyo Rose? Yeah, she was executed. How about Jane Fonda? maybe you knew her as Hanoi Jane?

Careful who you choose to emulate

Ret. USAF SNCO

Answer 10

they found the wmbs so get over that part
they have proof of Iraqi involvement in 9-11
and so what

Answer 11

There are hundreds of thousands of people world wide that would agree that Bush and Cheney are war criminals. As soon as they leave office don't be surprised if we don't see lots of coverage on the news about war crimes trials. Since Bush cries alot maybe he will demonstrate that as he sits with his pal Dick in a jail cell in the Hague. Once found guilty they can be secretly moved to a secret prison somewhere in Eastern Europe.