Should Bush be prosecuted for war crimes after he's out of office?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Poll question: Should Bush be prosecuted for war crimes after he's out of office?

[Kahuna]

1. Absolutely!

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[AndyTiedye]

2. YES!

[Daisey Mae]

3. If he doesn't qualify nobody does

He marched right into Iraq like he thought it was Poland and he was Hitler....You tell me.......His reasoning was the same... HE SAW IT , HE WANTED IT, HE INVADED IT.....1 2 3 it is the way the neo-cons operate...Bush is a War Criminal....Face it.....

[Loco_moco]

4. Yes! ..plus members of his administration..

..Cheney, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz, Perle, etc., and members of Congress and the Senate should all be indicted as accessories to the crimes of the Bush administration... now that would bring about real regime change..!

[dogman]

5. Other- Yes but don't wait

he should be prosecuted immediately.

[Journeyman]

6. Well, before we get too excited. . .

let's list our three favorite war crime tribunals for those criminals not captured in the wreckage of their own cities. Doesn't even have to be the most successful prosecutions. Just your three favorites.

I'll start. Josef Stalin at Nuremburg.

Yeah, I know: He was part of the prosecution. But then, I did set the criteria kind of low. It needn't be a successful prosecution of the example. Just a favorite moment.

Well, that's it for me. Anyone else?

18. Rudolf Hess

Because of his unusual life. Hess was the man that took dictation from Hitler for "Mein Kampf," became the third most powerful man in Nazi Germany, but secretly flew to England in 1941, claiming to be on a mission to try to stop the war. There are many tin-hat conspiracy stories declaring that the man that was caught and imprisoned was not the real Hess, but a double.

Whoever he was, the man claiming to be Hess was imprisoned for life in Spandau, and for several years was the only remaining prisoner in that institution. Hess lived in delusion for years, 21 years in solitary confinement, and killed himself at the age of 93.

[slor]

7. Why wait?

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. Junior, his entire fraudministration, and every member of PNAC

should be prosecuted for war crimes, and for treason against the United States of America.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

9. There should be a HELL YES option.

Voted for Yes anyway. :)

[Gemini Cat]

10. Yes!

The booosh and the whole lot of them.

[genius]

11. He should also be prosecuted for mass murder, treason, election crimes

and so forth. I want the whole Bush gang locked up for the next two thousand years.

[Piperay]

12. After chimpy is

out of office I never want to hear from him or his regime ever again. I hope they drop into a big ole black hole and are never come out.

[yelladawg]

13. Hang him by his balls

bush is a killer.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

14. It seems like the obvious followup question would be

[Hekate]

15. In my fondest dreams, but it ain't gonna happen

The thing I pray for most earnestly is that he and his evil minions will be voted out of office by an indisputable margin. This year.

Impeachment is unlikely in the few months he has left in his term -- it takes quite a bit of doing to gear up for an impeachment, and that means it would have to run into a second term. God forbid there should be a second term. Only in my fantasies do I imagine they will be brought to complete disgrace and ruin and to real justice in a court of law.

I will gladly settle for an honest vote count this year. As to what comes after that, let it be as the ancients said: The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.

Hekate

[Feanorcurufinwe]

20. What would the sentence be?

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. Hell Yes!

He took this country to war on LIES. I want to see him in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs.

[Slide]

17. Arrest 'em all

Not only should Kerry arrest Bush and his administration, but a hard look should be taken at his "media" allies. Faux News should be shut down the day after the inauguration. Give their studios to Air America and let the voice of the people be heard. And Rush Limbaugh? Put him in a cage and send him to Gitmo!

[Only Me]

19. Yes, without a doubt. n/t

[mobuto]

21. No

This is just silliness. You defeat politicians at the ballot box.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

22. Why not?

As you said: "You defeat politicians at the ballot box." Indeed, that is the premise of the question. After Bush is defeated at the ballot box, should he be prosecuted for war crimes? I don't understand your argument.

[mobuto]

23. No

You misunderstand me. I think the appropriate forum for expressing our displeasure with Bush's foreign policies is the ballot box, not a court of law. Prosecuting Bush for "war crimes" would simply be a partisan gesture of absolute meaningless import -- even more divisive and less meaningfull than Clinton's impeachment.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

26. You're right, I don't understand what you're saying.

"I think the appropriate forum for expressing our displeasure with Bush's foreign policies is the ballot box"

One more time -- I agree with you.

What I don't understand is what that has to to with prosecuting Bush after he has been defeated at the ballot box. The two things are not mutually exclusive.

[mobuto]

24. No

You misunderstand me. I think the appropriate forum for expressing our displeasure with Bush's foreign policies is the ballot box, not a court of law. Prosecuting Bush for "war crimes" would simply be a partisan gesture of absolute meaningless import -- even more divisive and less meaningfull than Clinton's impeachment.

[dogman]

25. You bring criminals to justice.

Defeating a politician is a different matter.

[Piperay]

29. I agree

that's the way I feel too, once chimp is out I don't ever want to see or hear from him again. It would be too partisan to go after him and will only end up hurting the Democrats.

[Darranar]

27. No...

he should be prosecuted as soon as possible, in or out of office.

[thebeaglehaslanded]

28. He should be impeached while he's in office...

but there is no leadership in Congress capable of challenging him, let alone charging him. It's the substance of tragedy when a monster seizes control of a formerly democratic society.