Should George W. Bush be put to trial?

For what? Being unpopular amongst a bunch of spoiled college students?

-_Rain_-

War crimes perhaps? The man broke several international laws, not the least of which are violating the Geneva Convention and the invasion of Iraq against all international consensus.

[QUOTE="Ace_WondersX"][QUOTE="-Wicked_Sick-"]

Could you post some reasons?

Pirate700

That's not his job. That's the major's job and beyond that, the governor's.

[QUOTE="Ace_WondersX"][QUOTE="-Wicked_Sick-"]

Could you post some reasons?

Pirate700

That's not his job. That's the major's job and beyond that, the governor's.

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[QUOTE="Ace_WondersX"] The only legitimate charge I can think of is the fact he did nothing about Katrina, before it hit. Even though he was warned that the levies most likely weren't gonna hold. But other than that he hasn't done anything that bad.Ace_WondersX

That's not his job. That's the major's job and beyond that, the governor's.

Look, the bottom line is the whole situation was handled poorly. The blame is not Bush's though. The Governor screwed up. It was his city.

Pirate700

For what? >_>chessmaster1989

I know what people mean by saying what did he do. He only lied...I mean was misinformed about Iraq having WMDs and he didn't react to Hurricane Katrina with prior warning. Nothing major.

But for real... no, I don't think he should be put on trial, waste of money and he'll win the case regardless.

Ace_WondersX

Because certainly no one else except Bush believed Iraq had/was getting WMDs :roll:

ABSOLUTELY NOT. (caps)chathuranga

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]For what? >_>dumy67

[QUOTE="Ace_WondersX"]

I know what people mean by saying what did he do. He only lied...I mean was misinformed about Iraq having WMDs and he didn't react to Hurricane Katrina with prior warning. Nothing major.

But for real... no, I don't think he should be put on trial, waste of money and he'll win the case regardless.

scoots9

Because certainly no one else except Bush believed Iraq had/was getting WMDs :roll:

Why, because he was a bad president?

While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.DeathScape666

Why, because he was a bad president?

klusps

While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.DeathScape666

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

[QUOTE="dumy67"][QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]For what? >_>Little_Big_Dude

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.VoodooGamer

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

[QUOTE="chessmaster1989"]For what? >_>dumy67

Not possible. Only Congress declares war; the President cannot, consent or otherwise.

-Breaking the fourth amendment by spying on the people. The CIA were allowed to tap phones, emails, bank accounts, ect.

This was not illegal at the time, and was quickly made illegal and was not performed when it was made illegal. Under American law, you cannot prosecute somebody for an ex post facto law.

-Denying habeous corpus to hostages of war

Along with Congress and several other countries.

-Unconstitutional torture

Supreme Court defines "unconstitutional." Torture that was ruled unconstitutional was not performed. Again, ex post facto crimes are not valid under the American legal system.

-Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be a 'high crime' under the Constitution's impeachment clause.

"If proven" being the operative phrase. There's no evidence to suggest that this happened.

-Lacking hard facts, as evidenced by his now much-discussed deception in his State of the Union address that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa, Bush mixed misinformation, distorted allegations and unsubstantiated rumors to persuade the public of the imminent danger posed by Saddam Hussein.

Not only is this not illegal, half of it wasn't his fault; misinformation came from the CIA and not Bush.

It really helps to understand how the federal government actually works before you begin to blame the President for everything. ;)

[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.VoodooGamer

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

Bush didn't declare war. Bush didn't pass the Patriot Act. Bush didn't spy on the public.

You seem to hate the Legislative Branch, not the President.

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[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.Stevo_the_gamer

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

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[QUOTE="DeathScape666"]While we're at it, I think we should hang Michael Bay for being an awful director.Theokhoth

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

Bush didn't declare war. Bush didn't pass the Patriot Act. Bush didn't spy on the public.

You seem to hate the Legislative Branch, not the PResident.

Maybe because it has been used in an illegal manner.-Sun_Tzu-

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[QUOTE="VoodooGamer"]

Michael Bay didn't kill thousands of soldiers in an unconstitutional war. He didn't take our rights away with the Patriot Act. He didn't spy on the public. He wasn't a traitor to our way of life.

-Sun_Tzu-

Bush didn't declare war. Bush didn't pass the Patriot Act. Bush didn't spy on the public.

You seem to hate the Legislative Branch, not the PResident.

Signing a bill that is approved by Congress is no crime, even if the bill itself sucks.

Bush and the White House don't have the power to declare war, but the White House seemed to be hell bent on going to war with Iraq.

The U.N. looked for WMDs twice and said firmly that they don't believe Iraq has WMDs.

Then the Pentagon couldn't find any real proof of Iraq having WMDs so they made up.... I mean were misinformed about Iraq trying to buy Uranium from Africa.

6 years leter no WMDs, Uranium, or anything. Just a messed up country.

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

Bush didn't declare war. Bush didn't pass the Patriot Act. Bush didn't spy on the public.

You seem to hate the Legislative Branch, not the PResident.

Theokhoth

Signing a bill that is approved by Congress is no crime, even if the bill itself sucks.

No, Bush should not go to trial. Everything he did was okayed by Congress. :|

Bush should just come forward and put his administration to hell, cause its mostly their doing not his.

why should he be put to trial? he was just doing what congress thought was in the best interest of the U.S. he was doing his job of protecting his country from any possible threat. saddam practically bragged to us that he had nukes and was willing to use them on us. I would consider that a pretty big threat to national security dont you think?

No. He wasn't the best president, but he certainly wasn't the worst. Has their been another major terrorist attack in the states since 9/11?omfg_its_dally

There was the shoe bomber and anthrax mailer. Now if you mean was there another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11, the question you really should be asking yourself is "have there been any attempted major terrorist attacks since 9/11?". The answer to that question being of course "no".

I think he and several members of his administration need to answer for the numerous human rights abuses that were authorized by him and his administration.

For what exactly?

Godly_Cure

No. He should become president again.. America was actually SAFE when he was pres.. th3warr1or

For what? Making unpopular choices? :roll:

If we did that, we'd have to put hundreds, perhaps thousands of others on trial. The President isn't the sole leader.