I might actually miss George W. Bush

George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House
WAR CRIMES

"They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire,
and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace."

~ Tacitus

The Commander and Chief of the Military, Should Be Held Accountable For These Crimes

US Law Concerning War Crimes

TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441

§ 2441. War crimes

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
(b) Circumstances.— The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such war crime or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).
(c) Definition.— As used in this section the term “war crime� means any conduct—
(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;
(2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;
(3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict; or
(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.

Afghan Massacres

[For more on this massacre, watch the movie,“Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death.” in our Movies & Multimedia Section]

America's Srebrenicia: What About the Hundreds of POWs Suffocated and Shot at Kunduz?- The brutal mistreatment at Abu Ghraib prison is small potatoes, compared to what appears to have been a U.S.-sponsored atrocity -- the mass murder of thousands of prisoners of war -- in Afghanistan less than three years ago.

‘US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths’ ANDREW McLEOD foreign editor - US SOLDIERS took part in the torture of Taleban prisoners and may have had a role in the "disappearance" of around 3,000 men in Mazar-i-Sharif in north-west Afghanistan, according to a new documentary

Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners By Stefan Steinberg 17 March 2003 - In December of last year, Doran’s completed film Massacre in Afghanistan—Did the Americans Look On? was shown to German audiences. The film has already been shown in Britain and Italy and has been bought for showing in a total of 11 other countries. The American media has blocked virtually all coverage of the film and its allegations. The film was recently released, however, on video—titled Afghan Massacre—Convoy of Death, available from Doran’s production company at www.acftv.net

AFGHANISTAN: PRISONERS SUFFOCATE IN CONTAINERS - One survivor is quoted as saying that in his container, only seven people survived.

War Crimes in Afghanistan

Shock video shows bodies of children 'killed in US attack' PDF By Jerome Starkey 09 September 2008

Afghan official 'saw bodies of 50 children' killed in US strike PDF AFP August 29, 2008

Documents Obtained By ACLU Describe Charges Of Murder And Torture Of Prisoners In U.S. Custody PDF ACLU April 16, 2008

100+ Civilians Die In U.S.-NATO Air Assault In Afghanistan PDF By Griff Witte and Javed Hamdard Washington Post July 1, 2007

Knee Strikes Taught at Bagram to Gain Prisoner Compliance PDF - "I just don't understand how, if we were given training to do this, you can say that we were wrong and should have known better," said the soldier, Pvt. Willie V. Brand, 26, of Cincinnati, a father of four who volunteered for tours in Afghanistan and Kosovo.

'US jailers tortured innocent Afghan to death' PDF 21 May 2005

Reservist: Knee blows that killed 2 detainees were approved Mar. 26, 2005

Papers Reveal Torture at U.S. Bases in Afghanistan Friday 18 February 2005

Killers Without Borders By Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD mdmiraki@ameritech.net 2-11-5 - There are more than 32,000 Afghan civilians - a conservative number - who have lost their lives to the US bombing. This number reflects only those victims who lost their lives from October 7, 2001 to the first three months of 2002.

Life In America's Secret Offshore Prison Network 'They Beat Me From All Sides' By James Meek The Guardian - UK 1-14-5 - An investigation by the Washington Post last year suggested that the US held 9,000 people overseas in an archipelago of known prisons (such as Abu Ghraib in Iraq) and unknown ones run by the Pentagon, the CIA or other organisations. But this figure does not include others "rendered" to third-party governments who then act as subcontractors for Washington, enabling the US to effectively torture detainees while technically denying that it carries out torture.

Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan: A Comprehensive Accounting [revised]

Afghanis Say U.S. Copter Bombing Kills 11 Monday January 19, 2004 - The governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammed Khan, confirmed Rahman's account that four men, four children and three women were killed in a U.S. bombing.

A war criminal visits the scene of the crime By Kate Randall 10 December 2003 - Rumsfeld’s appearance in Mazar-i-Sharif recalls one of the most gruesome episodes in the Bush administration’s war on Afghanistan.

US bombing kills 17 in Afghanistan Saturday, 20 September , 2003 - The nomads, all civilians, and two Taliban were killed when US warplanes Tuesday night bombed the nomads' camp in remote Shinkay district, 340 kilometres southwest of Kabul, Zabul governor Hafizullah Hashim said.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA International standards for all by Amnesty International - Meanwhile the US continues to hold the Guantánamo detainees in very harsh conditions, most of them confined alone to tiny cells for 24 hours a day and reportedly allowed to "exercise" in shackles for only 30 minutes a week - conditions which Amnesty International believes in their totality amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in violation of international standards.

Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base 'Blunt force injuries' cited in murder ruling by Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

America admits suspects died in interrogations By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles - Torture is part of a long list of concerns about the Bush administration's respect for international law, after the extrajudicial killing of al-Qa'ida suspects by an unmanned drone in Yemen and the the indefinite detention of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a number of whom have committed or attempted to commit suicide

U.S. Cluster Bombs Killed Civilians in Afghanistan
New Report Illustrates Dangers for Iraq (Washington, D.C., December 18, 2002)

This same week, the Bush administration announced a new strategy of covert actions and pre-emptive strikes, including nukes, against any country that dares attack U.S. troops now stationed in at least 148 nations throughout the world.

WAR CRIMES IN AFRICA

Massacre in Mogadishu—war crime made in the USA PDF By Bill Van Auken 28 April 2007
WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA

US strikes on al-Qa'ida chiefs kill nomads PDF By Anne Penketh and Steve Bloomfield 13 January 2007

US air strikes killed over 100 Somalians PDF January 13, 2007
WAR CRIMES IN LEBANON

US Complicit In Israel War Crimes In Lebanon PDF By Dahr Jamail 7-20-6

Also see the Lebanon section on the Middle East News Page
EVIDENCE OF COMPLICITY

The U.S. is now a legitimate military target PDF by elishastephens Jul 22, 2006

Bush Guilty of WAR CRIMES
A 370-page report by the Justice Department Inspector General references an FBI investigation of US torture that accuses the Bush White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the Justice Department with 'ordering and planning' torture, including 'procedures' that resulted in death to 'detainees'. In other words --murder!

The report details how the US began torturing captives in 2002.'Attempts to stop it ... were systematically suppressed', evidence of criminal activity by the Bush administration covered up. Bush's cover up of torture is itself a crime for which he should be impeached, tried and prosecuted.

A 'capital crime' is one for which the penalty is death. There is enough evidence now to try George W. Bush for various 'capital crimes'. Manadel al-Jamadi, dubbed the "Iceman," is seen in the picture. He was tortured to death in November 2003, using techniques that John Yoo approved in his torture memoranda.

According to the official narrative, the Bush Administration turned to the Justice Department for legal guidance on what could be done to give interrogators the latitude they were demanding in dealing with prisoners taken in the war on terror. However, not a single element of the official narrative is entirely true. The interrogators were not "pushing for broader authority."

Indeed, the pushing was all coming out of the White House (from Vice President Cheney, to be specific), and the intelligence professionals were actually pushing back. Moreover, torture was being used almost from the start of the "war on terror." Special operations units operating under the authority of Dr. Stephen Cambone, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, had been authorized to use torture techniques from the opening of the war, and they used them with gusto.

At Guantánamo and at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, numerous instances of "highly coercive techniques" had been documented; indeed, the stories out of Bagram are among the most gruesome to be documented. In the documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side," for instance (for which I consulted and in which I appear), we find footage of a senior U.S. officer in Afghanistan talking about the authority for torture, which was issued, and which military personnel were instructed to lie about or deny to keep covered up.

--Yoo Two, Harpers, Scott Horton

Yoo's job was that of an 'enabler', to figure out a way to make 'murder' legal.

(a) Offense.— Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

--TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 118 > § 2441,§ 2441. War crimes

It is not surprising that George W. Bush would instruct Alberto Gonzales and/or John Yoo to find ways to make his orders, his capital crimes legal after he had already committed them. The legality of his attempts to 're-write' the laws is in question and the timeline of events is not on his side.

The facts Bush would prefer hushed up are as stunning and verifiable as they are numerous. Hundreds of FBI agents witnessed thousands of incidents of torture, murder, and 'wrongful' death. Literally hundreds of FBI agents witnessed and reported acts of torture perpetrated by CIA personnel, the US military and private contractors! All are described carrying out illegal acts of torture, abuse, and, in various cases, murder. The graphic details are available to the public from the FBI.

Miss GWB? That's like missing a planter's wart.

Several agents reported beatings. Thirty agents witnessed and reported 'prolonged shackling of detainees in stress positions'. Seventy agents detailed instances in which detainees were subjected to sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, and periods of extended isolation intended to 'wear down' resistance. Four FBI agents described instances in which 'detainees' were kicked or beaten to death. Two detainees in Afghanistan were shackled for long periods of time in a standing position.

The report confirms that senior FBI officials knew as early as 2002 that other agencies were using abusive interrogation methods,""The report shows unequivocally, however, that the FBI’s leadership failed to act aggressively to end the abuse."

--Jameel Jaffer, American Civil Liberties Union (tracks detainee issues), Torture Lawsuit News: Dept. of Justice Inspector General Report Details How US Torture of Prisoners Began in 2002

Let's talk about some specific instances where a man calling himself "President" of the United States has simply thumbed his nose at the law, the rule of law, the international conventions to which the US bound by treaty, US Codes, and convention. The FBI has opened a 'war crimes file' documenting torture as it was witnessed at the US torture gulag at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The "War Crimes" file documents torture as it was witnessed before George W. Bush ordered the FBI to stop writing the reports.

A survey of 493 FBI personnel who were asked whether they observed aggressive mistreatment, interrogations or interview techniques of GTMO yielded 26 positive responses and several additional responses that were "not purely negative." These responses culminated in a 9/2/04 request through FBI's OGC to conduct a "GTMO, Counterterrorism Division, Special Inquiry" re 9 of the incidents identified. The conclusion was that there was no FBI involvement in the target interview techniques -- only outside entities.

--Federal Bureau of Investigation, Guantanamo Bay Inquiry

As you read some of the following excerpts from the FBIs own report, remember that George W. Bush has repeatedly denied that the United States tortures. This FBI report is stark reading consisting of verifiable reports of war crimes perpetrated by the United States under under from the 'President' of the United States. That there is probable cause now to try George W. Bush for having ordered the torture is bad enough. But Bush insists that it never happened. Following are but a very few instances that are found in the FBI report.
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W observed women crying near the river, their homes had been destroyed by planes. Trucks full of people trying to surrender were blown up by planes. On 2d day after capture, d was put in a ditch by Northern Alliance people. Next day, he was allowed to jump into a truck and taken to Mazar-e-Sharif where he was forced into a metal "shipping"-type container w/about 100 men. The container was then closed and d blacked out due to lack of air. When he awoke, there were new holes in the container., The man next to him was dead. He thinks he was in the container 24 hours - only 20 men survived.

...occasionally ds [detainee] complained of inappropriate behavior i.e., incident in which d alleged female guard removed her blouse and, while pressing her body against a shackled and restrained d rom behind, handled his genatalia and wiped menstrual blood on his head and face as punishment for lack of cooperation

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..on several occasions, witness ("W") saw detainees ("ds") in interrogation rooms chained hand and foot in fetal position to floor w/no chair/ food/water; most urinated or defecated on selves, and were left there 18, 24 hrs or more. Once, the air conditioning was so low that the barefoot d was shaking with cold. Another time, it was off so the unventilated room was over 100 degrees, d was almost unconscious on floor with a pile of hair next to him (he had apparently been pulling it out throughout the night). Another time, it was sweltering hot and loud rap music played - d's hand and foot was chanined and he was in a fetal position on the floor. Upon inquiry, W was told that interrogators [military contractors] ordered this treatment. Took place in Delta Camp

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# d was kept in darkened cell in Naval Brig at GTMO, then transferred to Camp Delta where he gave no info. Then taken to Camp X-Ray and put in plywood hut. Interrogators yelled and screamed at him. One interrogator squatted over the Koran. Another day a German Shepherd was commended to growl, bark and show his teeth to the prisoner. Subsequently someone laughingly told the W "you have to see this" and took him to an interrogation room where W saw a d with a full beard whose head was wrapped in duct tape

# civilian contractor asked W (an FBI SA) to come see something. There was an unknown bearded longhaired d gagged w/duct tape that covered much of his head. SA asked if he had spit at interrogators, and the contractor laughingly replied that d had been chanting the Koran nonstop. No answer to how they planned to remove the duct tape.

--Federal Bureau of Investigation, Guantanamo Bay Inquiry

The war against Iraq was begun upon a pack of lies and is, therefore, unlawful. Every incident following is therefore a war crime, every Iraqi death a count of murder. Colin Powell's address to the United Nation was a criminal fraud in which Powell cited a stolen, plagiarized student paper [See: Britain's Intelligence Dossier on Iraq was Plagiarized from a Grad Student], presented ten year old satellite photographs and other so-called evidence! It was upon this 'evidence' that Bush began a criminal campaign against Iraq, a campaign in which EVERY death is, by US codes, a capital crime.
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Earlier, Bush boasted of the the state sanctioned murder of 'those who met a different fate', in other words, the 'summary executions' of some 3,000 people 'deemed' terrorists. These acts of state sponsored terrorism by the United States include summary executions, the abduction and detention of civilians without trial and, most repugnant of all, torture related war crimes violating international statutes and treaties to which the United States is a signatory. Bush's own words confirming this are admissible evidence against him.

All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. Many others have met a different fate.[smirking] Let's put it this way -- they are no longer a problem to the United States and our friends and allies.(Applause.)

Bush, State of the Union Address, 2003

It has been the position of this blog that the Bush administration is legally culpable for having launched a war of naked aggression against Iraq. This blog has insisted that there was sufficient probable cause in the public record to indict George W. Bush for violations of US Codes, Title 18, Section 2441 --capital crimes!

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http://www.nogw.com/warcrimes.html

Rob Burgess you are a waste. To even try and put in any kind of positive input about Bush is just your little way of telling all the people who have been hurt to screw off. Your little play both sides angle does not fool me and hopefully not anyone else reading this. You can't have it both ways kid, your just a sell out narrow minded redneck who tries to turn the attention away from the real DAMAGE this presidant has done and yap about some light hearted opinions you have of it all.

Maybe it has not affected you yet. But so many families and lives are ruined from this last eight years and you have the nerve to yap this "I might miss him" crap. You are a joke Rob and a tool, if you don't like what i say i will gladly shut you down in any debate and if you want to bring in fists then SWEEET bring it joke boy.

Get some experience in life son your word is a joke atm.

Ill give him about a week before people start hateing obama too. everyone wants to blame someone and the president is an easy target. Until you get up and do his job dont talk about what a bad job he is doing.

dell6249 wrote:

Ill give him about a week before people start hateing obama too. everyone wants to blame someone and the president is an easy target. Until you get up and do his job dont talk about what a bad job he is doing.

So you support torture?
You support the US Murder of over 1,000,000 innocent civilians?
You support a war backe don lies and big oil corruption?

YOU GO FIGHT IN IRAQ, send your daughters and sons, or are you part of an American Elite who supports sending other peoples daughters and sons to go to the killing fields of Iraq???
You are a disgraceful shame to the honor of our Country!

As we say goodbye to the Bush Administration, we'd like to take this opportunity to give the outgoing President and his Drug Czar their final grades
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Willie Nelson: Impeach Bush,
"Throw The Bastards Out"
http://prisonplanet.com/audio/180208nelson.mp...
"If you break the law, you have to pay for it," American icon tells Alex Jones Show.
American icon Willie Nelson says he supports efforts to impeach President Bush and "throw the bastards out," adding that the administration will do anything to stay in power, including staging an event to cancel the election.
In his second appearance this month, Nelson told The Alex Jones Show today that he supported Dennis Kucinich's attempt to impeach Bush, adding, "If you break the law you have to pay for it one way or another and if these guys haven't broke the law nobody has."
"The deck's been stacked and we need to figure out a way to get a new fresh deck in there in the deal and I don't know how else to do it except throw the bastards out," said Nelson.
But the award winning star of stage and screen was quick to clarify that he didn't see the Democrats as any kind of viable alternative.
"We went through a couple of elections now and we didn't do anything, we thought we did but come to find out that the voting machines are crooked, everything's stacked against us, the politicians that we vote for won't stay and fight and they won't count the votes."
Nelson agreed that an elite cherry picked presidents and leaders to do their bidding against the interests of the people.
"They find them and they groom them and they put them in office and tell them exactly what to do and you give the speeches will small words and big letters and let them go," said Nelson.
"I really believe that George Bush believes he's right, he believes what he's saying and that makes it even more pathetic because to have someone that wrong think they're right and have him be the leader of our country - that's a scary thought," he added.
The star also re-iterated a warning made during his last appearance on the show, that the Bush administration could potentially stage an event to postpone or cancel the presidential election.
"It could be anything and anything will work because they have everyone scared to death, I just think there are people out there who will do anything to stay in power, anything to keep what they have, they've already proven they'll do anything to keep it," he said.
Reacting to the big response his last appearance on The Alex Jones Show generated, Nelson said "I think it would take courage not to say something, I usually say what I think and it's harder for me to shut up."
"I don't have the ability to remain quiet when all this stuff is going on all around us," he added.
Nelson clarified his previous comments about Building 7 after the news media attempted to skew his words and claim he said that no planes hit the WTC on 9/11. Nelson made it clear he was talking about WTC 7, which imploded symmetrically within seven seconds on the late afternoon of 9/11 despite the fact that it was only hit by minimal debris from the falling towers and not a commercial airliner.
"I was talking about the third building that nothing hit and yet it fell as if it was hit the same way, all three buildings fell the same way, but the third building wasn't hit by anything," said the country music star.
Nelson's contention that the twin towers were deliberately imploded received media attention after his first appearance on the radio show two weeks ago.
Audio: listen to the MP3 audio of the interview.
http://prisonplanet.com/audio/180208nelson.mp...

Nixon - Carter...anyone but the hoop shootin' community organizer !!!

End the Genocide wrote:

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YOU GO FIGHT IN IRAQ, send your daughters and sons, or are you part of an American Elite who supports sending other peoples daughters and sons to go to the killing fields of Iraq???
You are a disgraceful shame to the honor of our Country!

Have you Sir? I think not. Well some of us have, and in doing so; I believe I have earned the right to tell you to STFU, respectfully.
I can't stand Bush, but you are spewing some of the most paranoid, conspiracy b.s. I have ever heard.
In doing so, you're dragging the names of every man and woman who has fought over there through the mud.
How dare you, you piece of shit.

dell6249 wrote:

Ill give him about a week before people start hateing obama too. everyone wants to blame someone and the president is an easy target. Until you get up and do his job dont talk about what a bad job he is doing.

Ohh b'tch Pleease shut up, ya just sound STUPID>>>

If you had to choose between poor english or another Twin Towers, I'll choose the poor english. It matters less "what one say's" than "what one does". President Bush protected this country from another attack after Clinton let the our countries guard down. Historians have biases too. Current democrats have created this economy fiasco and tried to blame the President but even the biased media couldn't make it stick.

George W. Bush kept us safe after the initial attack on our soil. He increased domestic spending, especially in education, and under his watch, spent millions on relief all over the globe.

Because George W. Bush was never part of the so-called elite, he was battered, demonized, vilified, trampled, and abused by most of the liberal media, including programs that purport to be "news."

The fact is, Rob, that if you were only 17 when Bush was sworn in, you are part of the generation exposed to ultra-liberal, revisionist history, with no sense of patriotism, godless, without the values of former generations, and deluded with the same fanatical hatred of someone who will never understand.

President George W. Bush, the ultimate warrior, consumate Patriot, pursued his own course based on what he thought was right. It cost him his political career, and he was forced to endure the fiercest ridicule and vitriole ever witnessed.

But, like Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird," Atticus Finch stood alone in the face of the "mob," to do what he thought was right.

So, on the eve of the "historic" inauguration of a man who never deserved to be President, I will say, with conviction, that I WILL miss George W. Bush.

God Bless him, and God help America!

As an engineer and human being, glad to see him gone.

As a part time cartoonist, I'll miss him.