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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:35 PM
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Can Bush now formally be charged with some form of homicide?
Edited on Wed Mar-01-06 11:36 PM by quiet.american
Question for lawyers: With videotape proof of his deliberate negligence and lying in regard to not doing a @@@#$# thing to act on the impending ravages of Hurricane Katrina, can Bush now be arrested and charged with negligent homicide, voluntary manslaughter two, or even murder two?

I'm not a lawyer in terms of naming the charges, but like everyone else I've watched a gazillion enough re-runs of Law & Order to have those terms leap to mind.

Of course, this is ultimately a rhetorical question, given the hyenas in power now in Congress, however, let's say this was not Bush, but a regular citizen caught on tape in Bush's place. What could this person be charged with in connection to the events of Hurricane Katrina?
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Benhurst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:38 PM
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1. Possibly; but, if it were possible to try him, war crimes would be
an easy slam dunk.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:40 PM
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2. No argument here, but would still like to know domestic charges.
If this were anyone but Bush, say, anyone else at all, what would the indictment read in regard to crimes committed against Katrina victims.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:40 PM
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3. W was totally negligent in his duties plus he lied on camera
to the American people about his knowledge of affects on the levees. Clinton was persecuted for lying about sex.

I imagine Gonzales won't find grounds to charge him. They are good ole Texas buds.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:43 PM
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4. You're absolutely correct. Of course, it will again be up to Conyers--
-- to outline symbolic charges.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 11:51 PM
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5. To get a true measure of how criminal Bush**'s actions are in any matter
...just imagine what would happen to him if he were a Dem.
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guidod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:37 AM
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8. He hasn't done anything nearly as bad as
Edited on Thu Mar-02-06 02:38 AM by guidod
lying about getting a blow job. Guys just dfon't lie about those kind of things.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:22 AM
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9. Great point. n/t
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Harald Ragnarsson Donating Member (366 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:06 AM
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6. Nursing home staff are being charged with manslaughter
for helping the old that wouldn't make it pass with morphine, rather than them suffer the lingering death they would have. It's a tragedy they were put in that position, but that's what Bush's inaction did.

These people are being charged, why on earth shouldn't Bush? Isn't the Head Guy ultimately responsible?
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 02:31 AM
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7. A N.O. family that lost a loved one should bring charges
of Criminal Negligence &/or Depraved Indifference on that asshole.
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quiet.american Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 09:26 AM
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10. I totally agree, but then realize it would take the spin machine --
-- of Bushco three seconds to completely destroy in the national media whatever brave family would step forward. It would be like being brutalized twice, once in Katrina, and then again in the media.

It's not a word I use often, but Bush and his minions are truly demonic.
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