This time no death penalty; what sentences would you give Bush, Cheney?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: This time no death penalty; what sentences would you give Bush, Cheney?

I had separate threads last night for each, but folks were suggesting rather medieval tortures and death penalties and so it got locked. So let your imagination wander, but please no death wish suggestions, no torture recommendations, no fond wishes involving a large cellmate named Bruno. Keep it clean-- well, keep it within the rules, feel free to be as profane and obscene as they themselves are.

I suggest again that Bush have to visit the family of each serviceman killed in Iraq and apologize profusely for lying to get his war on. Plus about 40 years in prison, which is about how long it'll take for him to realize he did anything wrong.

Cheney? Uhhhhh, I guess we'd have to call that life in prison. With nothing to read but his wife's books.

I thought I'd be able to come up with a clever way to word a couple of responses such that they would give you the opportunity to say whether Chimp's or Shotgun's punishment should be the more severe, but that would pretty much have to be a separate poll. So maybe rather than post "HANG 'EM FROM THE HIGHEST TREE!" type responses, you may want to say instead whether Bush or Cheney deserves the longer sentence.

I'm not putting on an Other slot. We all know what Other would be. If you just have to express this sentiment, please restrain yourself to the "I can't answer this question or the thread would be locked" format, or start your own thread.

Poll result (27 votes)
I'll leave that to The Hague.	(13 votes, 48%)	Vote
Life in prison, preferably in chains	(1 votes, 4%)	Vote
I'd accept their removal from office so long as Rove is in prison in chains for life	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
They and their families have to live on Social Security. In New Orleans. In the 9th Ward.	(7 votes, 26%)	Vote
Victory tour of the new Democratic Iraq. Nobody can get hurt from thrown flowers, right?	(0 votes, 0%)	Vote
What OP said, ie, they have to apologize, then serve (decades of) time	(2 votes, 7%)	Vote
Life in prison, and prison job will be cleaning toilets	(4 votes, 15%)	Vote

[sutz12]

1. To the Hague with them....

That might be the best way to restore international trust in the US.

[AndyA]

2. I chose "Life in prison, cleaning toilets" but I also think they should

have to do something to repay the people of America for the damage they've caused. The lives lost can never be brought back, but I think hard labor and acts of kindness to those who are in need of help wouldn't be too much to ask. I don't know how we'd ever put a value on what damage they've caused.

[On the Road]

20. I Chose That, Too

Reminds me of what the Chinese Communists did with the last emperor.

[Lowell]

3. The Hague

let the court of world opinion judge them. If held here the neocons would figure a way to steal or rig the process.

[BOSSHOG]

Live in a FEMA Trailor in the ninth ward with no air conditioning

having to walk to work (about three miles) to clean up bourbon street every morning with a broom and dustpan from the one hundred block to the 11-hundred block. House arrest every day for the rest of their lives.

[unblock]

4. a lifetime of cleaning grand central station bathrooms with their tongues

thanks to wierd al yankovic for that lovely image!

[BOSSHOG]

5. And at night

clean out the stalls in adult bookstores.

[azurnoir]

6. There wasn't any

other but, I was thinking a lifetime of public service else where- latrine cleaners or body gathers in any of the camps in Darfur, for instance.

[napi21]

Removed from office and ruin the entire Pug Party in the process!

I actually think it would be a worse punishment for not only Shrub & Cheney, but all of their cohorts in crime to have to "suffer" under a Democratic leadership of this Country for at least 50 years!

[Minnesota Libra]

7. Hey, what ever happened to "something else...explain below" choice.......

....because I choose something else. I think put Rove, Idiot Boy, Cheney, Rummy, and every other idiot boy administration member should be put in separate prisons and make sure they have their very own "Bubba" and then throw away the key.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Exile them to the poorest slums in India or China or Africa

with nothing but the clothes on their backs and no way to leave.

[Selatius]

9. If we used the same standards in 1946, they'd all be hung or imprisoned

From the top leadership to the field commanders who either ordered or were negligent in the execution and torture of Iraqi detainees to the soldiers themselves who did the torturing and executing.

Nowadays, I would replace hanging with life imprisonment with no parole.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. If the Hague won't take responsibility, then to the Bastille. n/t

[DinahMoeHum]

11. First, all their financial assets should be confiscated.

Then, they should be sent to Baghdad and made to clean up the streets. Without body armor.

Then, assuming they survive Iraq, they should serve life sentences for treason. With no parole.

[warrens]

12. Couple hundred lashes a day for 30 years sounds fair

With a BULLWHIP

[Algorem]

13. Life in prison, preferably in chains,in bunker cheney had built under vice

president's house,on live 24-7 worlwide TV broadcast.

[Swamp Rat]

14. WE DON'T WANT THEM ON NEW ORLEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haven't we been victimised enough?!?

[Marie26]

15. A lovely apartment

in the Baghdad slums. No Secret Service.

[AlwaysQuestion]

16. This is just feel good, right?

Of course, no one here seriously believes that Bush and his cohorts will suffer anything like you're suggesting --so long as the U.S. remains the world's number one military power.

What I do think, however, is that if the situation continues to erode in the ME someone will make the first nuclear move. At that point, all hell will break loose and we'll all suffer the sins of Bushco. By now, millions and millions of us should have been in the streets protesting the inhumanity of what's going on.

I have an elderly father with dementia to take care of, so I haven't been out there actively protesting. That's my excuse. What's yours? While I think we DUers have great hearts, we'll need to lay our excuses aside and drum up some action that will grab the attention of our respective countries' leaders.


In short, we either band together in hordes or we will live only to rue the days of our inaction.

We are not special and God does not protect us. Given the right circumstances we could very well find ourselves experiencing the same sorts of thing as the Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Israelis, et al.

[w8liftinglady]

17. Life in prison -cleaning toilets and servicing a hairy Biker name Lugnut

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

18. Unfortunately, they'll get the same sentence as Kissinger, McNamara,

and the rest of thier predecessors in slaughter.

[mnhtnbb]

19. Life in prison for both with continuously running tapes of

Jimmy Carter's Sunday school lessons piped in to each solitary cell and Al Gore's movie in between shown on the cell-wall.