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The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied to Congress and to the American public -- lies that have cost the lives of more than 4,000 young American soldiers and close to $1 trillion.
A Monumental Lie
In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.
On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the U.S. This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.
According to the October 1, 2002 NIE, "Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW [chemical and biological warfare] against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war." The report concluded that Hussein was not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction; further, Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction he was believed to have if he were first attacked, that is, he would only use them in self-defense.
Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning, making the threat seem imminent and ominous.
In the original NIE report, members of the U.S. intelligence community vigorously disagreed with the CIA's bloated and inaccurate conclusions. All such opposing commentary was eliminated from the declassified White Paper prepared for Congress and the American people.
The Manning Memo
On January 31, 2003, Bush met in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a memo summarizing the meeting discussion, Blair's chief foreign policy advisor David Manning wrote that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would ever be found in Iraq, and that there was tension between Bush and Blair over finding some justification for the war that would be acceptable to other nations. Bush was so worried about the failure of the UN inspectors to find hard evidence against Hussein that he talked about three possible ways, Manning wrote, to "provoke a confrontation" with Hussein. One way, Bush said, was to fly "U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, [falsely] painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush was calculating to create a war, not prevent one.
Denying Blix's Findings
Hans Blix, the United Nation's chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in his March 7, 2003, address to the UN Security Council, said that as of that date, less than 3 weeks before Bush invaded Iraq, that Iraq had capitulated to all demands for professional, no-notice weapons inspections all over Iraq and agreed to increased aerial surveillance by the U.S. over the "no-fly" zones. Iraq had directed the UN inspectors to sites where illicit weapons had been destroyed and had begun to demolish its Al Samoud 2 missiles, as requested by the UN. Blix added that "no evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found" by his inspectors and "no underground facilities for chemical or biological production or storage were found so far." He said that for his inspectors to absolutely confirm that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) "will not take years, nor weeks, but months."
Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief UN nuclear inspector in Iraq and director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the UN Security Council that, "we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq."
The UN inspectors were making substantial progress and Hussein was giving them unlimited access. Why was Bush in such an incredible rush to go to war?
Hussein Disarms, so Bush ... Goes to War
When it became clear that the whole purpose of Bush's prewar campaign -- to get Hussein to disarm -- was being (or already had been) met, Bush and his people came up with a demand they had never once made before -- that Hussein resign and leave Iraq. On March 17, 2003, Bush said in a speech to the nation that, "Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict." Military conflict -- the lives of thousands of young Americans on the line -- because Bush trumped up a new line in the sand?
The Niger Allegation
One of the most notorious instances of the Bush administration using thoroughly discredited information to frighten the American public was the 16 words in Bush's January 28, 2003 State of the Union speech: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The Niger allegation was false, and the Bush administration knew it was false.
Joseph C. Wilson IV, the former ambassador to Iraq, was sent to Niger by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate a supposed memo that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake (a form of lightly processed ore) to Iraq by Niger in the late 1990s. Wilson reported back to the CIA that it was "highly doubtful" such a transaction had ever taken place.
On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN Security Council that "based on thorough analysis" his agency concluded that the "documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic." Indeed, author Craig Unger uncovered at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union address in which analysts at the CIA, the State Department, or other government agencies that had examined the Niger documents "raised serious doubts about their legitimacy -- only to be rebuffed by Bush administration officials who wanted to use them."
On October 5 and 6, 2002, the CIA sent memos to the National Security Council, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and to the White House Situation Room stating that the Niger information was no good.
On January 24, 2003, four days before the president's State of the Union address, the CIA's National Intelligence Council, which oversees all federal agencies that deal with intelligence, sent a memo to the White House stating that "the Niger story is baseless and should be laid to rest."
The 9/11 Lie
The Bush administration put undue pressure on U.S. intelligence agencies to provide it with conclusions that would help them in their quest for war. Bush's former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, said that on September 12, 2001, one day after 9/11, "The President in a very intimidating way left us -- me and my staff -- with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11."
Bush said on October 7, 2002, "We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy -- the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high level contacts that go back a decade," and that "Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gasses." Of Hussein, he said on November 1, 2002, "We know he's got ties with Al Qaeda."
Even after Bush admitted on September 17, 2003, that he had "no evidence" that Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, he audaciously continued, in the months and years that followed, to clearly suggest, without stating it outright, that Hussein was involved in 9/11.
On March 20, 2006, Bush said, "I was very careful never to say that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack on America."
Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964. In his career at the L.A. County District Attorney's office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson case, became the basis of his classic, Helter Skelter, the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history. The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder is available May 27.
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Show AllPoet May 9th, 2008 4:28 pm
You argued that if a mobster puts out a hit, but does not actually pull the trigger he still should be charged with the crime. I agree totally, but what if the mayor, the DA and police are also on the mobster's payroll and all are involved in protecting the mobster and the hit men. I am sure there is an accessory and felony murder prosecution there if a jurisdiction and authority can be found.
So the author, Vincent Bugliosi, or another attorney can write up the charges against the other government people who are enabling and protecting the untouchable Mr. Big. E.g. Pelosi, other war supporting senators and congress crooks, various AG's, perhaps supreme court justices. Oh, and we should not forget that the American people would not be docile and confused if it were not for the disinformation spread by the media at the direction of the media owners, some of them are knowing accomplices too. HuffPo April 30 article discusses media ignoring the pentagon propaganda spread by generals "consulting" with news media. [Why Won't The Media Pursue the Pentagon Propaganda Scandal?]
Brattleboro could add a list of more easily arrested people to its order to arrest Bush and Cheney, other towns could follow suit. Grand juries and arrest warrants for Speaker Pelosi, or the head of CBS might get some attention.
Of course if this whole criminal enterprise is as coordinated and nasty as the 911, FEMA Godzilla, and PNAC comments above suggest, how can it be stopped.
On really interesting suggestion above is for citizens groups to stage criminal hearings, show trials, perhaps put on like concerts or plays. Have you seen "the crucible"?
RE: Rich Griffin May 9th, 2008 4:41 pm
Why do you reject a mock impeachment of Bush?
Mock Impeachment = excellent idea.
Every public official, state as well as federal, who is ignoring the huge list of illegalities should be pressured to support impeachment and trial or risk being labeled a war crimes collaborator.
RICH GRIFFIN: I like your idea, and it would have a lot more clout if an attorney like Bugliosi got behind it. Or Marjorie Cohn. Remember, we don't have Donahue on-air any longer to open a forum for presenting this type of scenario to the American people who might react like Hamlet's Mom, the accomplice, upon witnessing his ingenious ghost-inspired "play within a play."
US Citizen: I'd love to see a class action suit, and please let's have Blackwater on the list of offenders!
LILLULU: The leadership of India embraces capitalism to the same degree as other elites, and is willing to sell out its under-class in exchange for "the nation's" rising status. Bush is at home in dirty business dealings, and the exchanges between leaders with corrupt intentions would make any sane person cry.
CEE MIRACLES: I, too, see what you see... down to every detail mentioned, along with the inevitable light at the end of this tunnel.
The correct charge can be found at:
http://www.holocaust-history.org/works/imt/01/htm/t186.htm
The Tribunal now turns to the consideration of the Crimes against Peace charged in the Indictment. Count One of the Indictment charges the defendants with conspiring or having a common plan to commit crimes against peace. Count Two of the Indictment charges the defendants with committing specific crimes against peace by planning, preparing, initiating, and waging wars of aggression against a number of other States. It will be convenient to consider the question of the existence of a common plan and the question of aggressive war together, and to deal later in this Judgment with the question of the individual responsibility of the defendants.
The charges in the Indictment that the defendants planned and waged aggressive wars are charges of the utmost gravity. War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent States alone, but affect the whole world.
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Vince,
Great, brave article...
...but you missed a key point. The crime you describe is not murder. It is the highest crime yet catalogued by international law.
In 1950, the Nuremberg Tribunal defined Crimes against Peace, in Principle 6, specifically Principle VI(a), submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, as:
(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
The Nuremberg Tribunal characterized such acts with the following statement: "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
The evidence that the highest crime has been commited, if not overwhelming, warrants an International Grand Jury investigation, to wit,
In addition to the case you've made, Vince, the evidence of premeditation by the Bush to invade Iraq to acquire strategic control over Middle Eastern oil irregardless of who was leading Iraq comes from at least two independent sources.
One source is the "foreign policy" position papers of the People for a New American Century (PNAC) that were publicly circulated long before Bush took office. The core document in the position paper series states that the authors believed that the United States should strive to control Iraq to acquire strategic control over Middle Eastern oil irregardless of who is leading Iraq. Many of the principle authors of this policy, i.e. common plan, including Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, were later named to key posts in the Bush administration by President Bush. That President Bush knew of the positions of his appointees and encouraged discussion of an Iraq invasion is cooroborated by the testimony of former Treasury Secretary O'Neill that this very matter was raised in Cabinet meetings presided over by President Bush in the earliest days of his Presidency and prior to 9-11.
The Administration furiously fought to keep the second piece of evidence secret and it is clear why that fought that fight all the way to the Supreme Court. It is sinister. Thanks to Judicial Watch's incessant Freedom of Information Act efforts, the only documents yet to be released from the secret Energy Policy Task Force chaired by Dick Cheney in the earliest days of the Bush Administration and prior to 9-11 are detailed maps of Iraqi oil fields.
There is no happy conclusion to this sad tale, but I pray that justice prevail.
Scott
Please realize that in the modern con-servative movement we are not dealing with stupid people. Bush/Cheney and the neo-con's are smarter than just about anyone posting on this site. And I'm not ashamed to admit that includes me. Lying is illegal only when done under oath (perjury) or to a law enforcement officer (obstruction of justice). Bush and co. are very careful not to do either. Usually by invoking "executive privilege". The lies that were told resulted in a "Congressional Authorization" to use force. This makes the military action and subsequent deaths of 4000 Americans and uncounted Iraqis legal in U.S. courts.
But, can we prosecute? Will we prosecute? Do Americans (as a majority) care enough? Nothing I've seen since 2002 gives me any reason to believe that most Americans care who we kill, as long as we don't have (to paraphrase Cheney) to compromise our way of life.
What was Bush's comment behind closed doors concerning Saddam?
To paraphrase I believe it was,
"Nobody messes with the Bush family and get's away with it."
Sounds like premeditation to me.
Serious investigation would likely add the events of 9/11 to the indictment.
Mr. Bugliosi,
What you say is true. What next? How do the People, absent any real representation in government, bring these criminals to Justice?
"Bush said, was to fly "U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, [falsely] painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach" of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush was calculating to create a war, not prevent one."
Mmm, Painting an aircraft to make it look like what it is not and then flying it where it does not belong……. To start a war….
Where did Bush get that idea from?
Pentagon? 9-11? Wrong sized hole? Wrong sized aircraft? Aluminium going through reinforced concrete? No wreckage outside, wrong wreckage inside, books and papers not even singed on the exposed upper floors? And all the videos are not to be seen!
So many anomalies at the pentagon and WTCs
Class Act : I found the logic of your story quite appealing, but I wish it could be provided with some more corroborating evidence. So, why can't someone, on the grounds of "building fire safety", tomorrow get a court order and dig into the wall or a pillar of the Sears Tower in Chicago and pull out a couple of kilos of thermite and a detonator? Or, at least just run through it with explosive sniffer dogs? …. No wonder all these buildings are now –NO SMOKING – It gives a new meaning to "health risk"!
So many thinking people around America and around the world would love to put paid to the myths, lies and incongruous fabrications of the official conspiracy of 9/11. So many questions, so much dis-information…
As sad as are the lost lives that day, beyond pale is the evil that has been derived from those acts and sooner or later the truth will be known, and the pilots that said planes cannot be flown like that, and the engineers that said buildings cannot collapse like that, will all be vindicated. Nothing will ever bring back the dead Afghans and Iraqi who have had to suffer the reprisals for this self inflicted catalytic "new Pearl Harbour", but their souls and the souls of the 3000 victims, and how many thousand service men, will rest a little easier when the truth is none and this evil purged.
It does not have to bring down a nation or the world, just a few very evil men that have tried to drive the world to a new fascist insanity, in a mad cap PNAC. What are the Neo-Cons if not "conspirators", not in theory but in the facts of their evil, their lies and endless endeavour to extend war, mayhem, death and destruction..
I'm not religious, but I prey for their undoing and America's salvation.
HardLeftTurn: I believe you are mistaken about the law on lying. Martha Stewart was sent to jail not for perjury, but for simply lying, although not under oath, to a federal investigator questioning her about her stock deals. Bush has the justice department and supreme court on his side, so no federal prosecution is likely to start or succeed for a while.
Possibility for prosecution: When members of congress violate the law, usually bribery or campaign finance laws, they may go to jail. Neither a president nor a member of congress can claim to be exempt from the laws and the constitution trumps all state law and federal law. It is clear that torture and a war of aggression are violations of US law by statute and by treaties, which the constitution says have the force of law. By tradition, the US supreme court can strike down laws and redefine the constitution, but they have not done that. Elizabeth de la Vega, a former US attorney has written an indictment of Bush based upon violation of US fraud laws. The same indictment could include a number of his associates and perhaps congress people could be named as coconspirators, Something to be explored.
Since the federal justice system has been captured by Bushies and is therefore broken, I have been exploring the concept of prosecution at the state level of Bush-Iraq war conspiracy. The question takes two paths, 1. have state laws been broken for which prosecution of Mr. Bush or any of his accomplices in congress is possible and 2. can state attorneys or district attorneys take up enforcement of violations of federal law. There seems to be precedent for state action to enforce federal law. e.g. the trial of Arron Burr for treason against the United States held in a Virginia state court and less clear but possible is article 6 of the constitution where all state officials are sworn to uphold the constitution and federal law.
Lastly there is possibility of international prosecution of all members of the US congress who have supported the war in violation of US Law, International Treaties to which we are subscribed under the Nuremburg principles. Mr. Bush did not commit this war on his own initiative, he was aided by his cabinet and members of congress. In WWII Germany and Japan, lessor officials were held responsible, and it is clear that members of congress knowingly enabled the president to carryout the illegal war, torture and so on.
The crimes of the Bush administration along with his collaborators have occurred in many US jurisdictions. One of them has to establish a grand jury and start calling witnesses. The crimes: unlawful imprisonment, kidnapping, illegal wiretapping, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to do all the above, election fraud, conspiracy to suppress votes....
What judge, DA or AG will take on the issue?
When I first saw the footage of Bush in the classroom on 9/11 directly after a colleague whispered in his ear, I thought this man looked as if he had prior knowledge of what the masses were experiencing on television and radio, but now that it actually was happening didn't know how to react for the millions watching him.
I would like to think I was wrong, but I want to know the truth.
The former Malaysian Prime Minister has called for Bush, Blair and Howard to be tried for war crimes:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/charge-howard-with-war-crimes/2008/04/27/1208743317123.html
Ever notice that you never see Charlie Manson and George Bush together? Hmmm.
Vincent....so...when are you going to present this case as a class action lawsuit for the people who have died, who are injured, who are left with trauma(this could include all of us)...we know all of the hard evidence...now what is the course of action?
It would appear as if the denizens of CD are missing an important facet: that a "law & order" icon like Vincent Bugliosi is calling not for impeachment, but for a capital murder charge (which premeditated murder is) is huge. That the corporate media has not picked up on this should not be a cause for despair, but for advertisement. It is incumbent upon progressives to get the news of this out: first to sympathetic outlets, then to the others when it can no longer be ignored. Hopefully, Bugliosi is willing to give follow-up media interviews to expound upon his call.
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IMPEACH both BUSH and Cheney.........IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ClassAct, Cee Miacles, Rich Griffin and the whole group of fantastic posters on CD. It's late and I must get some sleep but....
I applaud your posts and your words that bring more of us together to take action against this planned takeover of our country.
I too have a little to contribute.
Here's a great little story........
Two thousand years ago a Roman senator suggested that all slaves wear white armbands to better identify them. "No", said a wiser senator. "If they see how many of them there are , they may revolt."
Use a bandana to identify yourself to me and all others who will bring down the Empire and begin to build the earth community. Wear it, tie it to your briefcase, backpack, bike or car. Join the bandana revolution.
They are few, we are many. A traveling visible symbol lets me know in a gas line, a supermarket or at work who you are and what you stand for. Earth Community needs us. Now.
Don't worry, when the One World Global Government comes to power, based in London or Jeruselam, America will forced to pay reparations to Iraq and many other countries, via the UN, and when we can't come up with the money, the UN will seize all the assets of private citizens, while the global corporate citizens get to keep theirs. There will be justice.
Those Left Behind in American will be punished for the crimes being committed today. Your children will be forced to work to pay for these crimes long after you pass on. America will be the scapegoat, punished for it's treason of Declaring Independence from the Brutish Empire, and Catholics will be punished a bit more for their support of the Roman Catholic Church which did so much damage in Europe and with the Crusades, Inquisitions. In fact, we may be required to give reparations to African-Americans and Native Americans, who may be given the role of collecting these reparations from all the WASPS who made up the KKK and slave trade. Maybe Obama is the perfect president for this role (read his book, Dreams from my Father).
Yes, the globalists will enjoy punishing us for our crimes, which will get them the support of much of the world who knows what we have been up to over the last 60 years.
Blaming Bush is only diverting blame for all his disastrous policies away from the moron voters who helped him steal two elections, our legislatorswho has defaulted their duties by allowing these outrages, and five supreme court justices who viloated their oath by placing politics ahead of duty and planting this dangerous zealot in office.
We all know by now what a heartless coward Bush is. The big question is...how does Laura continue to live with this slimeball? If she'll sleep with him, we can only assume she'll sleep with anybody.
How can Bugliosi do such good work on this case and trying to expose the conspiracy behind the RFK killing, but then completely blow the JFK case:
http://www.reclaiminghistory.org/
Civil Behavior, May 9, 2008, 10:04 pm:
"Use a bandana to identify yourself to me and all others who will bring down the Empire and begin to build the earth community. Wear it, tie it to your briefcase, backpack, bike or car. Join the bandana revolution.
They are few, we are many. A traveling visible symbol lets me know in a gas line, a supermarket or at work who you are and what you stand for. Earth Community needs us. Now."
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Just realized how 1984-ish wary I have become at this juncture, but that's the year that I actually started with "A Plan To Save the Planet Earth from Nuclear War," which was the hottest issue of the time with approximately 10,000 local groups/1,000 sponsoring groups in the U.S. and far, far more in Europe, the Soviet Union [yes!], and every other continent.
It was a piece of cake back then because of the activism generated by the horrific debacle of the Vietnam War, and reporter/journalists like Walter Cronkite and, yes, a young Dan Rather and so many others. Then labels like "liberal press" were accurate, and the news media still had strong, healthy teeth rather than soft, infected gums that can't hold on to a meaty concept like TRUTH.
But this is now, and I have learned to distrust, and if I wear or attach a bandana to "a briefcase, backpack, bike or car" as a signal/emblem "to identify [myself] to [you] and all others who will bring down the Empire and begin to build the earth community," and if you are not who you say you are, Civil Behavior, I have just identified myself as someone trying to "bring down the Empire"/government of the United States. That could get me declared an "enemy combatant," with no charges necessary and no habeus corpus to prevent my being thrown in a hole somewhere.
However, I kind of like Patrick Henry's fire: GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.
Since true liberty on behalf of my brother and sister citizens and on behalf of all those global brothers and sisters being attacked, oppressed, ripped off, and controlled by my now out-law, criminal government, there will be a bandana hanging off my tailgate, Civil Behavior, flying just above the stickers all over the backside of my beat-up, rusting beauty of a car. It runs.
The stickers include IMPEACH, PEACE IS THE WAY, HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT, and quite a few others. And I live in a small-town, conservative, Bible-beltish, Republican area.
Let's do it. Shall we? The Bandana Revolution. It's a start for a burgeoning Meet-up wherever you or I happen to meet up.
peace ...
CORRECTION/ADDITION: SECOND PARAGRAPH BELOW - UPPER CASE. For the rest, see previous post.
"However, I kind of like Patrick Henry's fire: GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH.
Since true liberty on behalf of my brother and sister citizens and on behalf of all those global brothers and sisters being attacked, oppressed, ripped off, and controlled by my now out-law, criminal government IS THE ISSUE OF OUR TIME, there will be a bandana hanging off my tailgate, Civil Behavior, flying just above the stickers all over the backside of my beat-up, rusting beauty of a car. It runs.
The stickers include IMPEACH, PEACE IS THE WAY, HE'S NOT MY PRESIDENT, and quite a few others. And I live in a small-town, conservative, Bible-beltish, Republican area.
Let's do it. Shall we? The Bandana Revolution. It's a start for a burgeoning Meet-up wherever you or I happen to meet up."
peace …
Sociopaths can be Charles Manson, the housewife next door, or the president of the United States.
h buchman, I completely agree with you. Concerning Bush's reaction, the pieces didn't fit, unless you think of him sitting there pondering the orchestrated events that he knew had just come into play. He was sitting there thinking well now there's no turning back. It's begun. I'm totally convinced that's why he was frozen in place. The momentary failure of nerve of a weak but malevolent man involved in something way over his head, without a handler in sight. The... oh shit it's started, response.
Victor, who is more clearly bat shit crazy? Charlie or George?
Good article Vincent, you're gettin Close to the big picture now.... Google George Bush and the JFK assassination.
Also if they find more bodies at the Manson Ranch, see if some murders around Topanga Canyon are linked.
I picked Charley up with two of his girl friends hitchhiking on Old Topanga Road and at the time there were rumors that "Big foot" was killing people..... Bigfoot turned out to be Charlie Manson as I recall.
And don't forget to include the rest of the murderous gang.
If Manson is deemed to be mentally ill, then certainly Bush Cheney et all are mentally ill and obsessed with bloodlust, disqualifying them from holding public office and requiring removal from society as dangerously mentally ill criminals. A psychotic person on the street who might appear to be dangerous to themself or others would most likely be incarcerated or hospitalized, if they were not gunned down by brutal american police. These deranged killers running the corporate government should be apprehended, examined, and subjected to the system.
Let us not forget the Bioterror Attacks on the Senate Judicial Committee as we mail our Mother's Day cards with the extra three cents postage. That too is a Capital Crime.
On March 20, 2006, Bush said, "I was very careful never to say that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack on America."
See how smart he is? We're up against a criminal genius! There's no way to beat this guy, no way to capture him or bring him to trial. All we can do is forgive and forget. He is invincible!
Who says we have to forgive and forget?
I don't care about vegeance at all. I care about WAKING UP AMERICANS so these things don't happen in the future!
I've written to many different progressive groups who might be interested in a mock impeachment; as usual, all i get back is begging for money letters & e-mails! Typical!
If anybody knows anybody who can MOVE this idea into reality, please let me know - or just do it!
I love the bandana idea !!! Let's do it ! I'm going to call it the "Bandana Republic"
After all-
re·pub·lic
–noun
1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
www.dictionary.com
An Indictment of Bush, would be an indictment of the system, that allowed such tragedy, and obvious crime to occur. They would never carry out such a trial.
Because to do so, would be to admit that not only is Bush and his whole adminstation guilty. But also, all those that cheered it on.
Mankind is not yet ready to admit to himself that he his so flawed.
That war is murder and he is the murderer.
First, I have to correct all of you on this board. Puppet Bush is simply a puppet. He has no more brains to run a coffee shop them to loot an entire treasury of the U.S. The "puppet masters" at the core of this disaster are both the Rockefellers and Rothschilds who control this government. Ever notice while they are never mentioned in Forbes richest men and their families are never mentioned anywhere in the media. Well then, now you are getting it. The international banking cartels have fomented and created all wars on this planet for some time now. They are the source and core of all evil. The leaves of this tree of corruption simply spread out from the root of the tree. Do you due diligence and research, and google Roschilds and Rockefellers. It is time we dragged these robber barons into the limelight and give them their just reward. A rope and an oak tree.
I agree, but most of you fellow commondreamers must act and spread the message..just writing in this forum will do nothing to get the war criminals the hundreds if not thousands of them in jail and hung for treason..take action..not with obama--not billary--not mcinsane--
you want criminal prosecutions??
http://www.votenader.org
and
http://www.roguegovernment.com/
To LetsSaveDemocracy,
How can anyone rob his home (or country) without first "binding the Strongman."
America is NOT A DEMOCRACY. It is a REPUBLIC. This fact is a matter of historical and written record.
Once the masses "Study to Prove Themselves Worthy" and learn the True history of the country in which they dwell, then maybe we will see some changes.
No wonder Bush and his thugs (all the way back in time to the original criminals)have committed crimes.
They have been ALLOWED to as our people don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. They have been "BINDED" with false history, religion, politics and all the other lies they have fed the people.
On the count of 3, can we all say "...AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH AMERICA STANDS?"
There are also lots of small functionaries, like Yoo and Gonzales. These are the worms that signed the memos approving torture. Yoo is in Berkeley. He walks around the campus and has a normal life. While others scream their throats bloody because of his actions.
It looks like the mock impeachment will be held in Boston.
Are there any lawyers on here who could take up some posters' suggestions of a class action suit?
Maybe you ought to check with your Heroes in the Democratic Party who gave Shrub permission to invade. Then you might want to check with Party leaders who have funded the war since they took over both Houses in 2004 thus allowing the murder to continue by taking Impeachment and impeeding attempts to Investigate Bush! This is just another example of speaking with a forked tounge. The Dems are every bit as responsible for the murder as Bush. Another Meta Narrative of the white inside the beltway refrain driven by a flock of sheep.
If we truly do reap what we sow, then I would hate to have Bush's karma.
hey huck, truth be told there arent any "DEMS" anymore. they are wolves in sheeps clothing all bought and paid for by the Bush Crime Family so blaming them is again blaming the Bush Crime Family.
To those so-called "patriots" who insist that NO ONE should question the actions of George W. Bush, please consider the following words of one of the most revered Republican presidents ever:
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
As a prosecutor of Manson, Bugliosi had the police on his side. The police arrested Manson and dragged him by his filthy hair to jail. If Bugliosi should try to have Bush arrested he would be laughed at or arrested himself.
That is why, when you watch the national news each evening for your information, you see that the Iraqi resistance frequently attacks police stations. The police in Iraq work for George Bush just as the police in the U.S. work for George Bush.
The police are a real problem in the U.S. In my lifespan I have seen a profound transformation of the single, friendly officer who helped me cross the street on my way home as a first-grader, into a state-controlled gaggle of heavily armed thugs who might accost me for no reason, threaten me with violence and demand that I empty my pockets. If I were to try to arrest George Bush, then they would surely kill me.
The police do not protect or serve the people. They protect the government thugs. They are mostly retards who are impressed by authority, like the corrupt Supreme Court or Bush himself, and they take satisfaction in administering a beating to anyone. American police today are the equivalent of Hitler's brown shirts, a collection of thugs and losers and emotional basket cases with guns and grins and chips on their shoulders. They are easily manipulated and are loyal to the corrupt system out of ignorance and vanity.
Out of a sadistic whim or a moment of rage, a cop can kill you along the roadside in the U.S. with no consequences to himself whatsoever. All he must do is say that the cell phone in your hand appeared to be a weapon. No one will question him; he can walk away from a murder, and cops commit murders and executions in the U.S. every day.
Genocide in America has only just begun, but it has begun on several fronts and as an ignorant population invites the expansion of these initiatives out of frustration and anger, the program will develop into a full scale system of genocide that will kill millions of American undesirables, and Bugliosi, like you and me, can now count himself among the dead.
When will Congress issue the order for his Arrest? Also the Arrest of Chaney, Rumsfeld,Rice, Wolfawitch,Colin Powell, All Media Pundits and any Congressman ,CIA, FBI, or Public Official that knowingly advance this Lie.
The American Public Demand Our Elected Representitives to immediately Order this Command to Arrest The Above Mentioned Officials as a Danger to the Peace and Safety In America And The World.
Why has the Justice Department not throughly investigated the Murder/Assassination of John F. Kennedy Jr.
John's plane did not crash, it exploded. The Plane was in a landing pattern only 7 to 9 miles outside of Airport at Martha's Vineyard.
Will the Truth ever come out? There are many among you that are afraid to let the Truth be known.
The American Public demands that this Investigation be immediately reopened.
To Cee Miracles and all others interested…
First off, the thing I like about CD is I can go back and actually find a response to posts.
Secondly, I too cut my teeth at the end of the 60's as part of the revolutionary movement to halt the Nam war. Too many kids then were getting killed for the Empire and women and blacks were fighting for social justice al of which had the visual support of the many.
Since then we have seen a precipitous decline in our ability to trust government. Agreed? The control that has been consolidated at the top including members of Congress know that keeping us unseen and divided about what we can agree upon has worked to their advantage. No better time than the present to steal their thunder and show them VERY visually how many of us there are. They don't worry about us because they don't know how many of US there are.
Problem is in today's world it is just not as simple to get together hundreds of thousands in one place to protest Empire which is why the bandana revolution might just work. We need to be able to express it locally. We need to gather locally. Blackwater cannot be in 5,000 towns as easily as they can in one (DC mass protest). But first we need to see each other.
A simple square of fabric can be its own broadcast media if people like yourself pass it on. I have been working it into different blog posts and sending it out to friends. I talk to others about it when I get the chance. Wouldn't it be amazing to see a country abloom with bandanas of all colors? Sort of an interim flag, so to speak?
We need to SEE bandanas,
and so do THEY.
Revolution using symbolism stands for the IDEA. A bandana is merely the convention used to achieve an end to empire through a show of hands. Solidarity shown by carrying a bandana is the choice made for Earth Community over Empire. Once you've made that commitment then you can back whomever you feel has laid out the best plans to reject Empire and embrace Earth Community because that is your personal choice. Committing to Earth community is the nexus of the bandana revolution.
Earth Community
And all that it entails.
That means making substantial, sustainable choices that educate and show others that your level of consciousness is of a higher level than what the status quo is. Voting is not enough anymore. Lifestyles must change. We can no longer attempt to rule the world for our own self aggrandizement. We are all responsible. Hopelessness and despair beget suicide. Why do you think freedom fighters use it?
So I have tied my bandana to my bike. And you?
It is time to show each other who will support Earth Community and reject Empire's dominance.
Pssssst……….do something………….pass it on!!!!!!!!!
P.S. Feel free to cut and paste any or all of the above
Mr. Bugliosi and the host of "progressives" above are the reason liberals hide behind progressive and Bush 41 was with a majority of Americans able to define us as kooks with the L WORD.
From a legal standpoint as this is deemed an indictment of George W. Bush, I would remind that Mr. Bugliosi and all of the progressive brethern above figure out that your little international lynching of a President of the United States will not stop with George W. Bush.
GET THE POINT THAT YOU MR. & MS. PROGRESSIVE WILL BE INDICTED ON A NATIONAL SCALE AS ACCOMPLICES.
Before you start wide eyed claiming your innocence, just remember the last socialist, and George Bush is a socialist and not a right wing neocon, because he has spent more money on programs than Bill Clinton and Teddy Kennedy aided him in writing the education bill, that Germany twice had international indictments against it's leaders and the entire German nation was made to pay.
So for progressive Americans throwing George Bush on your pyre, because you are angry the electoral college made him president as Al Gore was too busy bashing America and John Kerry was too busy trying to be a slaughter king, you just remember that a host of Democrats demanded and voted for the Iraq War "that something had to be done" and as Mr. B along with the armchair posters here have NO WRITTEN PUBLIC RECORD CALLING FOR BILL CLINTON TO STOP BIN LADEN that makes you an accomplice for 9 11 and as there is no written record for trying to stop the first Gulf War, you are an accomplice for you charges of mass murder.
Oh and legal children, even if you did find something you posted, voila, there are hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi's and Kurds by Saddam, so you are guilty of aiding in mass murder for now ousting him.
See in your charmed world the reality is in the REAL WORLD your sword cuts both ways. YOU who supported Bill Clinton in Kosovo and now evidence has come to light that Serbian babies were butchered by "your side" led by Wes Clark that you too are indicted for mass murder.
To touch on the reality as apparently Mr. Bugliosi has no intelligence connections as I have in socialist Israel, communist Syria and fascist Saudi Arabia, the fact is known that Saddam did indeed have WMD. The Russian GRU (Russian Military Intelligence) loaded 2 shiploads of chemical weapons and dumped them in the Indian Ocean.
2 plane loads and 2 truck convoys of biological weapons were sent the week before the invasion of Iraq into Syria where they are now sitting atop Russian made medium range missiles.
Added to this Saddam's one lone nuclear bomb, which was too heavy to place on a Scud missile was flown out by a GRU jet shortly before the invasion to Moscow.
The record in Darfur also reveals from their communist leaders that Saddam sent his Air Force pilots to drop chemical weapons on the Christians there. The evidence is in the mountain graves there.
Now George Bush is guilty of covering all this evidence up. Guilty because the chemical weapons, bio agents weapons grade uranium came from socialist brothers in Europe.
This evidence coming out would have toppled France and Germany, leaving America standing alone and Europe ripe for Islamocommunist revolution. That is why George Bush covered this all up.
It is also why Valerie Plame who was working for the Clinton's sent her husband into Niger to "find nothing", because the fact of that matter is Saddam Hussein bribed with billions of dollars most of the leaders of the world. Marc Rich laundered this money and the Clintons got around 51 million dollar in their cut........it is why Bill was out speaking and being paid for it as that way the money could filter in and be explained. It is called double dipping.
In this the French socialists were bribed with Bill Clinton knowing that the French would refine 1.77 tons of weapons grade uranium for Iraq. We know this if you bother to Google it, because America flew out 1.77 tons of weapons grade uranium to White Sands shortly after Iraq was taken over.
THAT IS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION that either Helen Thomas is now covering up or Mr. B is completely ignorant of on purpose.
So as the mob chimes in for the trial of Geroge Bush, just remember my progressive brothers and sisters that once the court trials start that ALL THE RECORDS will start filtering back. The same records George W. Bush knew were there when he ordered Justice to close the files as Louis Freeh told him and the same records were there which George H. W. Bush scolded Bill Clinton in public with "I know where the skeletons are to back off Bill".
Those same records will be used against all the progressives on this site if we start hauling in our presidents, because it was your cheering policy which can be shown with Bill Clinton which led up to all the things which Mr. B is accusing George Bush of.
That is a legal accomplice.
So if progressives here desire their own trials they had better get their own lawyers and prepare for the same fate Nazi sympathizers got after World War II.
Progressives have got to stop sounding like incompetent no minds and fringe kooks. The same blame you level at one of your own is picked up by terrorists and used to act.
For the fact, every American soldier and Iraqi after Saddam was toppled is not George Bush's responsibility alone because it was progressives like Helen Thomas to Jeff Rense who started planting inflaming stories which caused those murders.
Sure you can deny it, but hey this is international court and one American is all Americans.
So Mr. B and the others clueless of historical fact, historical law and real international justice........just remember that YOU ARE NOW ON RECORD VOTING FOR HILLARY CLINTON who says she will vaporize Iran with nuclear bombs and Barack Obama who states he will nuke parts of ally Pakistan.
As you are on record now calling for a lynching of a President of the United States, that same rope is now precedent for ALL PRESIDENTS and the bloggers who agreed and voted for them.
Your thought it was ok to make it policy to label all Germans as "nazi" and never stopped Mario Cuomo from calling Pat Buchanan one.........well when the indictments come it will be each of the progressives here looked upon in group as "Americans" who will be led away.
You are guilty by your own condemnation.
Reasonably, progressives brothers and sisters, grow up, as this is politics and not good and evil for courts. You loose elections, so put forth candidates who will not be raping women and destroying liberal ideals in Bill Clinton's 8 years so America turns from liberalism and shuns a kook like Al Gore.
But no, progressives are now voting for 2 candidates who are talking about nuking nations, guns, God and a nazification of America where all of us work for benefits.
That is quite blind and completely not John F. Kennedy.
So Mr. B dust off the files as when the gavel bangs, you might get George Bush as an accomplice to Bill Clinton policy, but you are going to get a bigger group of progressives which is the entire Democratic leadership.
If that is what you want, which George Bush covered up for Bill Clinton, so America would not have another Watergate fiasco so a blundering Jimmy Carter could hand America over to our enemies, then enjoy your prison cell as you will have sealed America's fate.
Progressives had better relearn how to think as what is coming out is going to lynch progressives.
Buckoo, it's interesting and downright strange that only powerful Democrats die in small plane crashes. I've heard that the Rethuglicans were afraid JFK Jr was going to run for president in the future and so they got rid of him.
These right-wing fascists will kill for money and power because they know they can get away with it. George Bush by comparison makes Charles Manson look like an innocent child playing in a sandbox. Bush has caused the deaths of over 4,000 GIs and a million Iraqis.
Then these killers in expensive suits (paid for by us taxpayers) turn around and go to church on Sunday for photo-ops and claim to be religious Christians. What's George's excuse? God "told" him to do it.
Does George Bush even bother to get up every Sunday to go to church? LOL