Shouldn't Poppy be on trial WITH Saddam?

Margie Burns writes that the U.S. Department of Commerce licensed 70 biological exports to Iraq between 1985 and 1989, including at least 21 batches of lethal strains of anthrax.Under President Bush, shipments continued four more years, after the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988.

"Also between 1985 and 1989, Iraq's Atomic Energy Commission got 17 batches of 'various toxins and bacteria.' In 1985, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) shipped at least three samples of West Nile Fever virus to Basra University. Other lethal samples included botulins and E. coli.
"In 1994, Senator Don Riegle (D-MI, 1976–94) reported a list of lethal bio-products sent to Iraq. Their presence was verified by UN inspectors in Iraq.

"Too many US corporations supplied Iraq with chemicals to list here; a class-action lawsuit filed by more than a thousand Gulf War vets in Galveston, Texas, in 1994 (Coleman et al v Alcolac et al) names several, including Alcolac, Phillips Petroleum, Unilever, Allied Signal, and Teledyne."

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Burns090502/burns090502.html

The Boston Globe reported in November 1993:

"Several congressional committees had found evidence that senior members of the Bush administration knowingly approved US-guaranteed loans for Iraq and technology transfers that were diverted into Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons program, his chemical weapons and ballistic missiles. They also discovered evidence suggesting obstruction of Congress, false statements and perjury."

The House Judiciary Committee called for a special prosecutor to investigate the evidence, but Bush Senior claimed executive privilege, and the Congress stood down. He knew how to use his experience as C.I.A. director to obstruct every investigation of his criminal behavior as Vice President (Iran-Contra) and President (Iraq arms sales).

more stuff to make you go "Hey!"
http://www.new-enlightenment.com/whybush.htm

You are right and Poppy could be tried on other things as well in regard to his relation with Saddam and why he stopped short of taking out Saddam in the first Gulf War.

Apple didn't fall far from the tree. If I was an Iraqi, I'd have to ask- what did we do to the Bush family to deserve this kind of tratment for the past 35 years?

I'd put Dick and Don up there too. Dick is especially sickening.

1980's - Congress - Selling WMD to Saddam, profits to Halliburton. Chair on Iran-Contra, defends guns-for-hostages.
1989-93 - Sec Def - DS1, profits to Halliburton
1995-00 - CEO Halliburton - Circumventing US embargo to trade with Saddam, profits to Halliburton.
2000+ - VP - Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) - war with Iraq, profits to Halliburton.

I see one constant in this picture....profits to Halliburton.

If, on the other hand, this is simply a 'what would you REALLY like to do to Poppy, in an ideal world' question, then my answer would be 'yes'.

and for good measure let's throw in JUNIOR, too!