More than defunding the Iraq war, you know what would really infuriate Bush?

[Mike03]

If we could somehow prevent the Bush Library, which is rumored to be of unprecedented expenditure. The notion of a George W. Bush library is as appalling to me as the U.S. embassy in Iraq, or the permanent bases there. I don't want my beloved country, the United States of America, to be scarred by any sort of monument, remembrance or building devoted to this president. He has been a cancer on our history from which we will never recover.

Bush is dysfunctional, self-obsessed, narcissistic and fixated on his alleged legacy. He has fantasized for years that he is a great War President who will be re-evaluated by presidential historians and scholars at some distant point in the future and adjudicated to have been one of the greatest presidents.

It's very important to me that Bush know--WITHIN HIS LIFETIME--that he was a disaster, so he can't fantasize that he will be recollected with great affection. Short of exile, the only way I know is to shun and ostracize him in this lifetime, now, as soon as he exits the White House.

He doesn't comprehend that he is the WORST president we have EVER EVER had, and maybe the worst leader of any nation in the history of Homo Sapiens.

What in the living hell can he possibly put in this humongous historical structure that is flattering to him? It's going to be a complete fabrication from entrance to exit, and one that no doubt our taxes are paying for.

Naturally, I have no idea how we could prevent this library or at very least humiliate him by making him have to fight for the money necessary to build it. I don't know who pays for construction of presidential libraries. Is this something that is voted on, or privately funded?

Can we shut it down? Can we somehow humiliate him by making him have to raise these funds for himself?

[K Gardner]

1. Won't he just get the $$ from the Saudis, like the last 1st family did? I agree you are onto

a very good idea and wish there were someway to prevent it. It would have to be a ludicrous moment to War Crimes, wouldn't it?

[rooney]

2. I live in the Dallas area, and from what I have heard

it is already a done deal. The President and others on high at SMU did not want Bush to have a library anywhere near their campus, they said the instructors and professors did not agree with his policies and would never teach class to say that George was right on anything. Anyway, I saw a picture of a hugh building with 80,000 square feet, I believe, to put all of the papers from the Bush Administration in. The ones that would not be in the library. I also read in the Dallas Morning News that George and Laura would be buying a house in Dallas and be living there after 2008.

[K Gardner]

3. You mean NO Library is a done deal? It would be kinda nice if

all he got was a "warehouse".. kind of symbolic of Guantanamo :-)

[Mike03]

4. Wow, that is obscene

What I really want to do is DENY Bush any dignity once he is out of office.

If he has the funding, I guess that would make stopping the constructing difficult.

God I hate this president so much. What the hell does he think he's going to put in the library???

[Mike03]

5. The library ought to be in Paraguay, where he should be exiled.

Honestly, what is going to be in his library:

A copy of "My Pet Goat."
A vomited pretzel and a blood sample filled with alcohol.

There will have to be a "Hall of Lies" filled with Signing Statements and bogus doctored documents.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

6. How about throwing his ass in The Hague? n/t

[Mike03]

9. Yes, exactly.

Can this be done? When I asked about this possibility, it seemed like no one believed it was possible.

My understanding of the law is that Bush/Cheney/Rummy and company could be tried in absentia.

But nobody seems to pay attention to what happens overseas. People here are so damned dumb nowadays. They don't know about the Geneva Conventions, or why the Iraq war is illegal.

Fuck... It's such a shame what has happened to our country.

[K Gardner]

10. Hasn't a country or two already brought them up on charges for war crimes?

I read this somewhere and even sent out an email about it to my friends, will have to go look for it unless somebody has it handy.

[K Gardner]

11. Text here.. looking for the link:

Non-governmental organizations and individuals from sixty-six different countries have filed 499 "communications" – or complaints – with the International Criminal Court (ICC), between July 2002 and July 2003. Many of them urge the ICC to investigate the United States conduct in the war on Iraq. The primary charge is that the U.S. committed an act of aggression against Iraq. The ICC has jurisdiction to punish the crime of aggression.

Cohn describes actions against the Bush administration in the ICC by Belgium and Greece’s Athens Bar Association:


In June, Belgium indicted Bush, Tony Blair, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, and Condoleezza Rice for war crimes…. Belgium isn’t alone in indicting Bush and Blair for war crimes. In July, Greece’s Athens Bar Association filed a complaint in the ICC against the two for crimes against humanity and war crimes, this time in connection with their war on Iraq.

International Commission of Inquiry on “Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration
The International Commission of Inquiry on “Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States” has charged Bush with “wars of aggression” and “torture, rendition, illegal detention and murder”. Discussing the conduct of the Iraq War, Howard Zinn states in the preamble to the Commission’s report that it:


has now reached the point of crime, crimes against humanity… a charge that peoples all over the world, and now more and more people in the United States, are beginning to level against this administration… The Bush administration has been reserving to itself the right to act unilaterally… presumably in the interests of democracy and liberty, but actually in the interests of business, big business, the oil business in this instance.

The Constitution provides for impeachment for what it calls “high crimes and misdemeanors.” … This is a clear case for the removal of a president for committing “high crimes”. What could be a higher crime than sending the young people of a country into a war against a small country… which is no danger to the United States, and in fact a war which is condemned by people all over the world and a war which results in, not only the loss of American lives and the crippling of young Americans but results in the loss of huge numbers of people in Iraq? These are high crimes.

[Meeker Morgan]

7. No presidential library.

So where do all his papers go? Into the shredder?

He might like that, you know.

[Demeter]

12. Special Prosecutor's Office

Paging Patrick Fitzgerald....

[Meeker Morgan]

14. :)

eom

[riverdeep]

8. Maybe they could put the infamous hood that unfortunate detainee had to wear

in that photo of Abu Ghraib. You know, make an alternate library, that told the real story.

This reminds me of all the things named after Ronald Reagan around where I live. There's even a goddamn Ronald Reagan expressway. I feel like pissing out the window when I'm on it. Nothing by Jimmy Carter though.

[OneGrassRoot]

13. This post reminded me of a great bumpersticker I saw recently...

The whole concept of Bush + library is completely laughable.

The bumpersticker read: "The next president should be fluent in at least ONE language."

Bingo!