It is going to take a country with more testicular fortitude than Canada in order that Bush face a prosecution for torture and other crimes. Canadians are too observant of authority.
As for the neo-cons who comprise the Canadian government, support for Bush and his cronies is a default position regardless of what he did.

Harper spent several years trying to clone himself into a Minny-Bush. Do you think he is going to touch his idol? Remember, the thugs who prey together, stay together.

It appears that Canada is a better haven for Chicken Hawks than Peaceniks.

www.peoplevbush.ca is the website for the organizers of the events leading up to George W. Bush's appearance in Calgary.

Everyone is right on all counts. Canada denied entry to Code Pink activist Ann Wright who works for peace and never advocated any violence against anyone, but is unlikely to deny entry to Bush, if not the worst, at least the most fatuous war criminal of our times.

Bush should be turned back at the border or taken into custody on charges of war crimes.

If Calgary does not comply with the demands for justice, Calgary should be bombed until it complies. Anyone who thinks this suggestion is excessive should refer to the US bombing of Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden.

Deliver the war criminal to justice, Calgary, or have justice delivered to you.

If Obama doesn't soon get his act together and indict Bush and Company on the numerous war crimes they're so obviously guilty of, he'll be complicit by default.

I'll be plenty happy to 'look forward', as long as GWB's head is joining me on a pike, looking in whatever direction.

The Secret Service should be ashamed of themselves for protecting that sociopathic peabrained excuse for a waste of oxygen human being.

'....this would be a lot easier if it were a dictatorship... just so long as I'm the dictator...heh, heh, heh.'

Indeed.

Well, I commend Ms. Davidson for her principled stand.

It will get less than zero traction, alas!

Neither Canada (as presently governed) nor Amerika have any use for principle.

During the Amerikan Ex-War-Criminal-in-Chief's maladministration, principle gave way to Authority.

And in the present administration, principle gives way to Pragmatism.

Now, THAT'S "Change You Can Believe In", eh?

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Obviously Canada is now part of the United States of Amerika as is Mexico, ruled by the Corporate Oligarchy of Earth, the same group that gave us Obama.
Honest,legal means are never going to bring justice in this present political system. Perhaps Bush could be "renditioned" to the The Hague to stand trial for War Crimes,a practice that's familiar to the Bushies. Perhaps Amerika's new "Dear Leader" will break ranks with his overlords and try the miserable cur along with Cheney for Treason. Like Grandma used to say "Wish in one hand and S**t in the other, see which one fills up first".

I would like to know which firm or organization hired this war criminal to speak in Calgary and would suggest all Canadians boycott said agencies.

The Bush family has $100 million$....and seldom do rich people go to jail. Even if they do, they reside in a different sort of prison than some nickel and dime dope dealer. Look at John Hinckly, shot the president of the United States, it was on film, but his family had money and he is free man, never convicted of a crime. Had he been some black dude, he would have been executed. We all want the guilty to pay for their crimes, but the ultra-rich aristocrats live in a different world than most of us, and their world has a different set of rules. All we American citizens can do is hope for a total collapse of our society, culture, economy and government, and THEN MAYBE, we can produce a few heroes like those of 250 years ago, who truly believed in freedom, liberty and justice. When was the last time a law was passed in the United States that approved of a right to do something? All of our laws now tell us what we cannot do or a law that protects the rich aristocrats from being prosecuted from doing wrong. Bernie Whatchmacallit, steals $65 BILLION, and he will be in a much better, safer country-club prison than some poor redneck that gets a DUI and runs into a utility pole. Oh well, c'est la vie...

I know that's not the point of the article but did anyone notice how Canada is becoming more like the US. "The test isn't whether the person's been convicted, but whether there's reasonable grounds to think that they have been involved". Guilty until proven innocent. The good Ms.Davidson sounds like a little GW herself...

Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director for Human Rights Watch, and Fast Forward Weekly, are perpetrating a very serious crime.

She claims that "legally" prosecuting the war criminal is one thing and "politically" it's another, and the weekly publishes this claim as if it is a widely accepted idea that political concerns should somehow trump legal concerns. This terribly corrupt idea is not widely accepted. It's only accepted among elites because it helps them oppress the people. This is a good example of media complicity with elite oppression.

Some may claim that it works both ways: The people may use political arguments to override legal protections for elites. But upon closer inspection we notice that any legal protections for elites, i.e. for their oppression of the people, are bogus. So it really boils down to this: Politics don't hold much water. The laws should be formulated to serve the public interests, in a universalist way, and should be enforced. Or put another way, there is really one one legitimage interest: The public interest. Any deviation from that is evil.

Sorry, DIZI, but Reagan didn't die from being shot and no one, regardless of color, would have been executed for that. If you are thinking that a poor person of color might not have gotten off with essentially a civilian commitment to a psychiatric hospital you might be able to gather data to support that view. Don't look, however, for Hinkley to ever be let completely free--they will always find reasons to keep him significantly confined which is probably bending the D.C. commitment laws if they are like those in almost any state.

Isn't it amazing that if you were convicted of a class c felony or greater in the USA you can't obtain a residency permit in Canada. However, if you're george W or sleazy dick and you're involved with capital offenses that include War Crimes within US jurisdiction and War Crimes within the World Court you get a free ride.

I wonder why Canadian lawyers against wars of aggression, etcetera, bother to try to get the Canadian government to bar Bush Jr or have him prosecuted, for everyone should realise that there's certainly not going to be any actions taken by the fascist, corporatist, bourgeois, ... Canadian government that'd potentially or expectably jeopardize Canadian corporations and other businesses from getting business with the U.S. Why not demand that Canada cease its repeated complicity in U.S.-driven wars of aggression and if the government refuses, then to seek to have the guilty Canadian political leaders and military officials indicted, prosecuted and sentenced, as they deserve?

Of course that also wouldn't work, but the "superstructure" of the whole GWoT is ongoing and the main beam in this is the U.S. When superstructures are going to be deliberately demolished, the demolition crew(s) starts by arranging to cause the supporting buttresses removed, by blowing them out, cutting them, ecetera, and this leads to a near perfect implosion of the superstructure. Why not see the same way with the "superstructure" of the superpower USA with its driving wars of aggression? Take out the supports and then the superstructure won't be able to continue to stand on its own while continuing on its extremely destructive and criminal path.

Trying to target Bush Jr, Cheney, ... is trying to target the whole superstructure all at once without first making sure to remove its supports; making it all the more difficult to cause the implosion and more likely that explosions that'll cause a lot of colatteral damage will occur, instead.

Just an abstract thought that comes to mind ... now and then ... since 2003. There's [no] way anyone is going to be able to get any western government to do anything against Bush Jr, Cheney, etcetera; and the same applies to Bill Clinton et al. Trying to do that is to try to believe that "mission [impossible]" is possible; a perception of reality that's sort of like oxymoronic, say, and certainly odd.

I am disappointed that there isn't more interest in prosecuting but also I wonder why the people aren't boycotting and picketing here in the states to demand accountability. Are we not culpable?