Why aren't Bush and Cheney in prison?
Quick Brief for the prosecution:
They ignored warnings Bin Laden was determined to strike in the United States.
They lied the United States into War on a nation that had nothing to do with 9-11.
They used their government positions to enrich their cronies.
They turned the nation's spy agencies upon the American people, contrary to law.
They railroaded a Democratic governor into prison on trumped-up charges.
There are more, but that's a start. And I still would like to know why they aren't in prison.
So, why are these two free?
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Here are a couple of 20th century slavemasters, I mean, bankers...
Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, sharing a moment and a bit o' information in this small world.
Rothschild and Freshfields founders’ had links to slavery, papers reveal
By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times
Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.
Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.
Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.
JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.
CONTINUED (with registration, etc) ...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
The back of the object they are examining shows typing in a box, formatted in a manner similar to what is often used in official US Government photos, for identifying content on the front of a photograph or treasure map.
...a maddeningly scratched record...a maddeningly scratched record...a maddeningly scratched record...
However, as Corporate McPravda won't dare raise the question, we must ask it on behalf of the thousands of dead US service men and women -- and uncounted hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghanis.
As for the kinder, gentler machine-gun hand: Yep, they would not hesitate to fire.
Is the Congressional Leadership AFRAID of the BFEE?
Who remembers the Highway of Death after Iraq War I (graphic warning for the nannie set)? The guy has no respect for human life, especially when the cameras of Corporate McPravda can be focused elsewhere.
Odd how one family name seems to run through the last century of US history.
Did you ever see or hear from the FBI, from the CIA, from any other intelligence agency, any memos or discussions or anything else between the time you got into office and 9/11 that talked about using planes as bombs?
RICE: Let me address this question because it has been on the table.
I think that concern about what I might have known or we might have known was provoked by some statements that I made in a press conference. I was in a press conference to try and describe the August 6 memo, which I've talked about here in my opening remarks and which I talked about with you in the private session.
And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was -- it was not based on new threat information. And I said, "No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon" -- I'm paraphrasing now -- "into the World Trade Center, using planes as a missile."
As I said to you in the private session, I probably should have said, "I could not have imagined," because within two days, people started to come to me and say, "Oh, but there were these reports in 1998 and 1999. The intelligence community did look at information about this."
To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Chairman, this kind of analysis about the use of airplanes as weapons actually was never briefed to us.
I cannot tell you that there might not have been a report here or a report there that reached somebody in our midst.
Part of the problem is -- and I think Sandy Berger made this point when he was asked the same question -- that you have thousands of pieces of information -- car bombs and this method and that method -- and you have to depend to a certain degree on the intelligence agencies to sort to tell you what is actually relevant, what is actually based on sound sources, what is speculative.
RICE (sic): And I can only assume or believe that perhaps the intelligence agencies thought that the sourcing was speculative.
All that I can tell you is that it was not in the August 6 memo, using planes as a weapon. And I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons. In fact, there were some reports done in '98 and '99. I was certainly not aware of them at the time that I spoke.
KEAN: You didn't see any memos to you or any documents to you?
RICE: No, I did not.
SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript/
Rice's now obvious perjury brings up another couple o' questions to ask Bush and Cheney individually: "Why did you insist on testifying TOGETHER to the 9-11 commission and ONLY on the condition that you ARE NOT UNDER OATH?"
Bush Tortured Prisoners, Even Children. Like the NAZIs.
Questions Not Asked: Torturing People's Children, War Powers, Geneva Conventions
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1204
Today torture is as American as apple pie.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
Hence, Carlyle Group can make money by knowing the hot regions and sectors before the rest of the financial community, as well as target those industries that the insiders are talking about, seeing how they own the NSA's biggest contractor, Booze Allen. Small world. And it's totally Buy-Partisan.
Response to The Magistrate (Reply #44)
Concept Running Man meets the nice farming family from The Road...
Please, the royalties from the home version board game alone would make us wealthy.
… If the Howard Zinn book, "The People's History of the United States" (1492 to present) were reduced to a recipe…
1) Invasion and Occupation (since Columbus so effectively did that with native tribal society in the Americas)
2) Infuse a healthy dose of mythology to reduce belief systems to a simmer of invaded occupants
3) Drain after steeping in poverty, those that can be pitted against each other, in order to float to the surface
4) Drain again after reducing education level, until layers of fodder are ready to be folded into military or debt slaves
5) Add fear…. and then more fear… and a final fear presented with the head wrapped in a towel in hot sand with myth
6) Simmer very, very slowly in oil… sweet… then tar sanded, finally fracked
This serves no one, my good friend, but those who were supposed to be perp walked.
this is truly an important matter. war criminals deserve justice! deprive them not!
can do. 
