Vincent Bugliosi: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi


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 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.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/09/8834/

And he should be listened to...

Truth to power for him, always...

K&R

:patriot:

He also condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Clinton v. Jones and in the Bush v. Gore decision that decided the 2000 presidential election. He wrote a lengthy criticism of the latter case in an article for The Nation titled "None Dare Call It Treason," which was later expanded into a book titled The Betrayal of America. Some of his criticisms are portrayed in the 2004 documentary Orwell Rolls in His Grave.

The dude will be out of office in a few months. There really is nothing that is going to happen to him over the Iraq War. I know it makes for good obsessing, but it will come to nothing. So for sanity's sake, let it go.

Now that is a little too liberal, even for me.

Where did I say I am against holding people responsible for their crimes??? I'm just a realist. There is no way at all -- and I mean NO WAY -- that Bush is going to be arrested, arraigned, charged, tried, etc. for murder. It just ain't gonna happen. A Dem congress couldn't even agree on impeachment. And you think criminal charges are going to happen?

So I choose not to obsess over things that I know are not going to happen. Hence, my advice to let it go.

If it makes life easier for you to forget about it, well more power to ya. It is painful to acknowledge how pathetic this country has become with regard to honesty and the rule of law, that's for sure, but somebody needs to set things right or it's only gonna get worse.

IMO, letting Nixon off the hook gave us Bush/Quailibird. Letting them off the hook gave us Bush/Cheney. Letting Bush/Cheney off the hook will beget us what?

There are horrors in life that I can't change. If we all obsessed over all the bad things in the world, we would all go crazy. How many starving children are there in the world? How many kids getting abused and raped? How many moms dying of breast cancer? How many orphans who lose their parents in war? I donate to charity to help. But if I obsessed over all the truly awful things going on in the world, I would have no life.

So I accept the fact that Georgie will never ever be prosecuted for war crimes or murder or anything else. He just won't. That's a fact. So banging my head up against a brick wall is a totally useless exercise when there is ZERO chance of anything happening.

It's not the preferred nomenclature. "The fucker", please.

Bugliosi for attorney general.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010205/bugliosi

None Dare Call It Treason
by Vincent Bugliosi

"...In the December 12 ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law. If you doubt this, try to imagine Al Gore's and George Bush's roles being reversed and ask yourself if you can conceive of Justice Antonin Scalia and his four conservative brethren issuing an emergency order on December 9 stopping the counting of ballots (at a time when Gore's lead had shrunk to 154 votes) on the grounds that if it continued, Gore could suffer "irreparable harm," and then subsequently, on December 12, bequeathing the election to Gore on equal protection grounds. If you can, then I suppose you can also imagine seeing a man jumping away from his own shadow, Frenchmen no longer drinking wine. ..."

In his book The Betrayal of America, he accuses the five SCOTUS justices who voted in favor of Bush v. Gore of criminal conduct bordering on treason.

Hope he stays out of small planes......

Yes,, indeed. :thumbsup:

Thank God someone is talking about it, especially now that 'Paraguay' seems to be coming off the grid.

I love his book on Bush v Gore, the Betrayl of America and the book on the Paula Jones
and Clinton: No Island of Sanity. (No Island of Sanity would be a good summary of the
last 8 years in this country.)

this book will ever be discussed in the media?

and the book.

It's way past time for "Outrage 2".

From Bugliosi:

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?

Impeachment, anyone? Anyone?