What actual crimes has Bush commited?

Question

I keep hearing people say Bush is a "criminal" and that he needs to be tried for "War crimes". can anyone back this up with facts? or is it just Bush bashing?

And I am looking for actual answers not just a bunch of ranting

AVAIL you have no idea what "my type" is! I did not ask this question to hear bush support any more than I want to hear bush bashing i want to hear intelligent answers!

madlibs you had me listening until the katrina part.

BOSS H..don't call me a "bushie" I have never once said anything pro-bush on any of these postings

AVAIL this the first political question I have asked and as i said to boss I have never left a pro-bush answer

Avail yes it did i went from $16 an hr to $30 an hr but if you are going to use that answer then use all of it! you know the part where i said he has not been a good president or that i would not vote for him if he was ellligible to run again.

Most of these answers seem to point out reasons to dislike bush but not actual crimes he can be prosecuted for. Like uh oh spahgettios said he is a politician and knows how to split legal hairs, most of this stuff is unethical to say the least but he has protected himself pretty well or else the democrats would surely have him up on charges I think. Though I wonder if he could sued like O.J.?

Answer 1

Ten reasons to Impeach Bush

Bush Misled America about the Threat from Iraq

If Saddam Hussein was an immediate and serious threat to America, as the White House claimed, then Bush might have been justified in invading Iraq. But it appears that Bush misled the public, the Congress and the UN by consistently overstating the threat from Iraq. By lying to Congress, Bush violated US Laws related to Fraud and False Statements, Title 18, Chapter 47, Section 1001 and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, Title 18, Chapter 19, Section 371.

Lie #1 - Uranium from Niger - Bush said "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." in his State of the Union Address.

Lie #2 - Iraq and 9/11 - Bush led people to believe that Iraq was involved with 9/11 by repeatedly linking them in his speaches. This was so effective that at one point 70% of Americans actually believed Saddam was behind 9/11. Bush has since admitted that this was not true.

Lie #3 - Congress Knew - Bush has stated that Congress had access to all the same information that the White House had. Thus he should not be blamed for making the mistake of going to war. But Bush was briefed many times about the falsehood of various stories and this information never reached Congress.

Lie #4 - Aluminum Tubes - Bush, Cheney, Rice and Powell said that aluminum tubes Iraq attempted to buy were intended for use in a uranium centrifuge to create nuclear weapons. These were the only physical evidence he had against Iraq. But it turns out this evidence had been rejected by the Department of Energy and other intelligence agencies long before Bush used them in his speeches.

Lie #5 - Iraq and Al Qaeda - Bush still insists that there was a "relationship" between Iraq and Al Qaeda. But the 9/11 Commission released a report saying, among other things, that there was no "collaborative relationship" between Al Qaeda and Iraq. The nature of the relationship seems to be that Al Qaeda asked for help and Iraq refused. Al Qaeda was opposed to Saddam Hussein because Saddam led a secular government instead of an Islamic government.

Lie #6 - Weapons of Mass Destruction - Bush insisted that Iraq posessed weapons of mass destruction but his "evidence" consisted mostly of forged documents, plagiarised student papers, and vague satellite photos. The United Nations was on the ground in Iraq and could find nothing. After extensive searches Bush was finally forced to admit that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.

Lie #7 - Mobile Weapons Labs - Bush and his team repeatedly claimed that Iraq posessed mobile weapons labs capable of producing anthrax. Colin Powell showed diagrams of them at his speech before the UN to justify invading Iraq. These claims originated from Curveball, a discredited Iraqi informer who fed Bush many of the stories related to WMD. On May 29, 2003, two small trailers matching the description were found in Iraq. A team of bio-weapons experts examined the trailers and concluded they were simply designed to produce hydrogen for weather balloons. But, for over a year, Bush claimed these were part of Iraq's bio-weapons program. The expert's report was suppressed and only recently made public. Read the Iraq survey report.

Lie #8 -The Bush wiretaps violated US law because he was required to get approval from FISA. He can start a wiretap of a suspected terrorist at any time but must then seek approval to continue within 72 hours.

Lie #9- Attorney General Gonzales claims HJR114 gave Bush authority to conduct the wiretaps. But HJR114 only grants use of the "Armed Forces". HJR114 does not explicitly suspend the Constitution. Also HJR114 requires "The President shall, at least once every 60 days, submit to the Congress a report on matters relevant to this joint resolution, including actions taken pursuant to the exercise of authority granted in section 3". Congress was not notified of these wiretaps. [HJR114]

Lie #10-On 6/22/04 Bush said "We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will never order torture. The values of this country are such that torture is not a part of our soul and our being." The Administration ignored the law against torture. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales are guilty of violating "Federal Torture Act" Title 18 United States Code, Section 113C, the UN Torture Convention and the Geneva Convention. Canadian Maher Arar was arrested at JFK airport and sent to secret prison in Syria for torture under "extraordinary rendition" program. He was released a year later without charges. Khaled al-Masri says he was abducted by the CIA arrested in Macedonia and flown to Afghanistan. He was then tortured for five months and released. CIA has admitted making a mistake in this case.

How much more can you stomach?

Answer 2

Nobody can back it up with facts because to do that Bush would have to let a team of independent specialists conduct a real investigation into 9/11. Only then can anyone decide for themselves whether Bush is a war criminal but I tell you if I were Bush and I was innocent I would have made sure that the first 9/11 commission were 100% independent of government and would have made sure no question about 9/11 was left unanswered.

Answer 3

One of the charges of the Nuremburg Trials: Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace.
That's exactly what Bush did when he decided to invade Iraq.

Answer 4

Its just Bush-bashing. He's incompetent and has made lots of mistakes but by the letter of the law I don't think he's committed any crimes. He's a politician. They know how to stay a split hair on the legal side.

It would be illegal to just invade Iraq. The president can't call for a war without a vote of congress. Bush came up with a reasonable argument for why Iraq is a threat and must be stopped. Enough people in congress believed him that they voted to go to war.

We now know that his argument was false. The only way Bush can be held responsible, as a criminal, is if it can be proved that he knew the information he was presenting was false. Then he could be held responsible for the deaths of all Iraqi and coallition forces. He could be declared a war criminal. That's a hard assertion to prove in a court of law.

Answer 5

Knowingly and willingly decieving the American people

Useing torture and rendition only when caught admiting to the practice

Invading a nation under false pretense and thus being responsible for mass murder for no justifiable reason


Invasion of privacy based on nothing but the contridiction of law -

The attempt to over thow fundental portions of the constifution

The wrongful use of the military based on things that were false etc

This is a man who has protected CIA with retoractive laws - reguarding torture - need more be said ?

Answer 6

Dereliction of duty!
His oath of office stated he would "protect and defend the constitution from threats foriegn and domestic"(keep in mind the constitution begins "We the people of these United States") I asked the question earlier how did Bush protect America before 911.....without any answer other then it was Clintons fault!
Bush recieved a warning on 8/6/2001 stating Bin Laden determined to strike inside US!
Moussaoui the 20th hijacker was in FBI custody for weeks before 911 in Minneapolis.Minneapolis field office made repeated requests for FISA warrants in the weeks before 911.Why did FBI HQ in Washington refuse those requests?
What were Bushs orders to ensure Americas national security after getting the warning?

Answer 7

1. He is a Christian
2. He is conservative
3. He is a Republican
4. The liberals could not defeat him twice.

Liberals hate him and call him every name in the book because they cannot look at themselves as failures.

Answer 8

Hatchling, Bush is an International Corporate Fascist. He is in a fascist league with the likes of the Reverend Moon, Saudi Royal Family, United Arab Emirates.

He is guilty of failing to uphold his oath of office, which entails upholding and protecting the Constitution. He is guilty of criminal negligence of his Constitutional responsibilities of Commander In Chief. He is guilty of violating Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution as it pertains to the separation of powers. He is guilty of willfully violating the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th Amendments. He is guilty of willfully interpreting the Constitution in order to circumvent the same by way of the Unitary Executive, which has effectively eliminated all but a serial monarchy from power.

He is a traitor.

You may choose to support this traitor to our Republic and in my book, hatchling, that makes you complicit with an attempt to overthrow the United States Government with a serial monarchy.

Hatchling, you have not the guts to follow the Fascist trail down the feces hole. If you did, there might be some tiny percentage of hope that you would realize what these elevated hatchlings have done to this country.

But, I wager you do not care. I wager you would have been a loyalist to King George during the dark days of the Revolution and a Nazi during the mid 1930's, because its easy, hatchling. It is comfortable in the void that is the one hatchling mind, isn't it. No individual thought. Spoon fed feces every day.

Hatchling, we Earthlings are not going to make it easy on you.

The 2nd Coming of RonnieGod has not occurred.

Answer 9

That is exactly the same thing that one could have asked about Hitler when he was rising to power, and there was no proof lying right in front of your eyes.
Does a person have to pull the trigger to be responsible for the dead?
obviously to your type they do, luckily the law doesn't work the same as your thought processes.
Nice straw man argument.

but since you did ask....
Executive privilege is only constitutional in circumstances where oversight can be shown to hinder the executive offices' national security obligations. Never once that Bush and Cheney used it, has this been the case.
United States vs Nixon

Answer 10

My brother, who has a 360 IQ, and his major is Politics at Stanford is still thinking. He's been thinking about it since 9/11 wackos have been accusing Bush of crimes. He can't think of any crimes Bush has committed. Go figure!