Lebanon Shiite Cleric Calls for Bush Trial Over Iraq
US President George W. Bush should go on trial for lying to the world about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the 2003 invasion, a leading Lebanese Shiite cleric said on Sunday.
“President Bush… should be seen by the world as an apostle of lies and a preacher of destruction and terrorism,” said a statement from Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who has followers throughout the Shiite Muslim world.
Bush “should be tried as the number one liar in the world,” Fadlallah said, reacting to a US study that said the American president lied 260 times about Iraq’s weapons capacity ahead of the war.
The study, published last week in Washington by the Centre for Public Integrity, said Bush and his top aides made “935 false statements” about Iraqi weapons and its alleged links to Al-Qaeda in the run-up to the war.
“Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials methodically propagated erroneous information,” it said, with the pace of lies picking up in August 2002 ahead of US congressional consideration of a war resolution.
The US president was found to have made the highest number of false statements, referring a total of 260 times to Iraq’s supposed weapons of mass destruction and alleged Al-Qaeda links to the Baghdad regime, the report said.
Charges that the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had stockpiled an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction proved to be untrue after the invasion, when no such weapons were found.
Fadlallah warned against what he called Bush’s “next big lie,” and said that “political falsehoods have become the salt of US policies.”
© 2008 Agence France Presse
he’s not the only one saying that………..
What took them so long? The rest of us have been calling for one for years.
No response from Bush yet.
In responding, he’d have to touch the subject of the survey therefore no response at all.
Reagan would’ve instantly gone live on Corporate TV, shrug and slur a witty rejoinder, while perhaps twirling his pointing index finger in air next to his temple, “See you soon, Fadlallah” or somesuch. But Bush? Lazy coward.
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Fatwa, anyone?
Bush lied, but Cheney lied twice as much and long after the truth had come out and was generally acknowledged. Cheney kept repeating the lies bold-facedly. The man is pathological and so too the people surrounding him like Addington. They are all an extreme danger to the country and the world and need to be sent to the Hague.
We need all the help we can get to remove the lice from the head of our government.
I never take advices from authority figures,expecially clerics of any religion but I think he is on point. The same standards should be applied accross the board; even if he is the most powerful man on earth. People should be held accountatble for thier actions, especially if those actions resulted in rape, murder and genocide….
935 counts of treason.
prison’s gonna love having those guys.
He will never feel the pain of what he has done to the World, the USA or the future generations he has poisoned or bankrupted. He is “Bubble Boy”
Who in the world has the power to try Bush and his minions?
Only the people of the United States.
Saila January 28th, 2008 1:58 pm
That is true indeed, Salia. But by rights he should be tried in the Hague by
the whole world. For he did not invade the United States.
I can hear the Bush dog and phony show in the other room. It reminds me that I have to clean the litter boxes before I go to bed. My wife hollered to me that half the house is quiet and sitting on their hands, and the other half is making as much noise as they can. She says Pelosi is applauding Bush. That figures. I suppose a lot of alleged Dem big wigs are applauding him. After all, they get to inherit the criminal organization that he and Cheney built, to use for their own ends next year.
If there were any justice in the world, Cheney/Bush and their whole gang of henchmen should have to sit in the dock at Nuremberg and watch and listen to the Nuremberg trials, from beginning to end. Then their own trials should start in the same dock. I don’t imagine the same scaffolds exist, but I’m sure someone could build some replicas.
Remember, I said above “If there were any justice in the world.” It is at that point that the entire concept fails.
It would be so simple. Return the Constitution and Bill of Rights to the Halls of Government, intact and functioning. Force our alleged representatives to read it and certify that they understand it. Impeachment would be almost automatic at that point, followed by removal from office and trial. We could actually begin to hold our heads up as Americans again, assuming that we also ended war, conquest, greed and profiteering and all that goes with it and got back to our roots.
Ah well, as the song says, “To dream the impossible dream…”
I like that Sheikh; makes me :). He certainly does have a very clear understanding of what he’s talking about and that it is mindboggling reality.
Over 900 F*CKING LIES. Now that’s mindboggling, even if I’ve not noticed any significant truths at all from this administration. I just never bothered to keep any count of how many of their lies I read about and heard on tv; knowing that they were [constant] having been sufficient for me.
But the ‘lies report’ from CPI is definitely welcome and has been bookmark-archived. May as well try to not lose the bookmark, I figure.
260 lies, for Bush alone, and nearly the same number for Powell alone! These people are beyond being completely f*cking nuts.
Otoh, I wounder if there’s any double- or triple- … counting in the CPI numbers. Iow, do they count the same lies again when they’re repeated, or are Bush’s 260 lies all distinct in terms of what they say?
Bush has only lied, but then there’s one thing he certainly didn’t lie about what he’d be doing; when he said that it was necessary for him to keep repeating the same lies, though he didn’t use the word, over and over … like he’s some dumb and wicked, evil-bent bunny running on Duracells.
Watch someone use that to make another poltergeist movie. They could make this poltergeisted evil bunny wearing a cowboy hat and a military outfit like when Bush landed on the aircraft carrier (I don’t think he had the cowboy hat then though) in I believe May 2003 and there was a banner reading, “Mission Accomplished”. And this wicked bunny is never ceasing to be driving around on its vehicle while beating the (war) drums, maybe on a mock aircraft carrier or in a mock presidential office, with an ‘M. A.’ banner attached, with a backdrop of MANY innocents being massacred with bombings, gunships, white phosphorous, etc., etc.
Gotta fine-tune that to make it scary for this war and this presidential administration and most of Congress and the Senate are very scary; like a bunch of demonically possessed “people”.
No, not a good idea?