Why Don’t They Put Bush on Trial? - Al Ahram, Egypt

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The last lie his mind produced was the claim that President Mubarak advised him to remove Saddam Hussein because he possessed biological weapons. I was close to the talks between them — I was following President Mubarak’s visit to the United States as the editor-in-chief of October Magazine — and so I learned from Egyptian and American sources what really happened in these talks: Everyone’s accounts agree that President Mubarak repeated his warning to President Bush against invading Iraq. President Mubarak explained that, by nature, the Iraqi people would forcefully and unceasingly resist the armies of invasion and occupation, just as they resisted the British occupation before, winning their independence with the blood of their martyrs. President Mubarak told Bush that the invasion of Iraq and the destruction of the state structure would lead to the spread of terrorism in Iraq and in the region, and that America would be unable to counter it. He also told him that it is not foreign invasion that changes leaders, but popular will, a statement which I published in October Magazine at the time.

As a journalist close to the events of this period, I know how much pain President Mubarak felt for all that happened in Iraq, a pain that renews and increases every day with the killings, the destruction, the torture and the pillaging. All of which was watched and recorded in sound and picture, and displayed on television screens around the world — except in the United States, where Bush censored and banned everything to do with these operations, operations that bring back to mind the ugliest pages in the history of war crimes.

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I wasn’t the only one to witness this; everyone else following President Mubarak’s visit and meeting with Bush knows what I know. But this is the Bush who became president of the United States in 2001 by a judicial ruling of doubtful integrity, the one commentators call “the president of failure” — he failed in the invasion of Afghanistan, he failed in the invasion of Iraq and he failed in the administration of America’s economy; he wasted $3 trillion in wars, brought the American economy to the brink of bankruptcy and transformed the United States from a land of freedom and hope to a police state with laws that allow warrantless wiretapping, the search of homes without the knowledge of their owners and the arrest of people without investigation, the presence of a lawyer or the presentation of charges.

Torture was practiced systematically, whether on Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, the airport or elsewhere, or on Afghan prisoners. He created the Guantanamo detention camp, the worst such camp in history since the Nazi concentration camps. Years of his regime; all of it lie after lie. He claimed that his decisions were inspired by God — which psychologists have interpreted as auditory and visual hallucinations.

http://watchingamerica.com/News/78573/why-dont-they-put-bush-on-trial/

Just thought this an interesting viewpoint from outside the country.

Can't stick around now, but will return later.:hi:

someone like that one does!

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"Everyone’s accounts agree that President Mubarak repeated his warning to President Bush against invading Iraq."

Who won Dancing with the Stars?

in our supposed elections. During the research I did for the ER forum, I became more and more cynical about our elections. What a disappointment to someone that felt so proud the day I registered to vote in 1976 at 18.

The lack of the current admin to hold the * regime accountable in any way has been my biggest disappointment in this admin so far. And definitely not the only one...

Thanks for stopping by, Octafish! Always enjoy your informative, and enlightening, posts. :hi:

When Assange is the scapegoat we are living the complete inversion of reality.

Painful as it is, it still is:

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Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe
— By David Corn
Wed Dec. 1, 2010 2:47 PM PST
In its first months in office, the Obama administration sought to protect Bush administration officials facing criminal investigation overseas for their involvement in establishing policies the that governed interrogations of detained terrorist suspects. A "confidential" April 17, 2009, cable sent from the US embassy in Madrid to the State Department—one of the 251,287 cables obtained by WikiLeaks—details how the Obama administration, working with Republicans, leaned on Spain to derail this potential prosecution.
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read more: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/12/wikileaks-cable...

The current persecution of whistle blowers is another.

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You're not seriously wondering why our complicit, spineless lawmakers wouldn't do such a thing are you? Kucinich tried it, but it "was off the table" almost immediately.