President Bush “beyond all reasonable doubt” is responsible for all the murders of American troops killed in Iraq and could be prosecuted by any of 140 Federal and State legal authorities, famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi says.
Bugliosi said the president is guilty of “the most serious crime ever committed in American history…knowingly and deliberately taking this country to war in Iraq under false pretenses,” killing 4,000 GIs, seriously wounding 30,000 more, and killing 100,000 Iraqis in the process.
While a federal prosecution by the U.S. Attorney General in Washington, or any of the 93 U.S. attorneys throughout the country “would be the easiest procedure,” Bugliosi says, any of the 50 State attorneys-general also “could bring a murder charge against Bush for any soldiers from that state…who lost their lives fighting Bush’s war.”
Writing in “The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder”(Vanguard Press), Bugliosi says Bush’s lies to the public constituted “overt acts” and their broadcast nationally via the media are a basis for prosecution in every state.Charges could include murder as well as conspiracy to commit murder, the veteran prosecutor said.
In his career in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder trials without a single loss, according to a biographical sketch in the book. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson murder case, became the basis of his classic, “Helter Skelter,” said to be “the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history.”
“Bush and his gang of criminals were constantly telling Americans that Hussein constituted an imminent threat to the security of this country, but they kept the truth from the American people that their CIA was telling them the exact opposite, that Hussein and Iraq were not an imminent threat to this country,” Bugliosi writes.
In his speech of October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Bush said “The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gasses and atomic weapons…” even though a CIA report dated October 1 gave Bush notice that “the CIA did not consider Hussein an imminent threat to this nation,” Bugliosi pointed out.
As Bush did not act in self-defense, he did so with “a criminal state of mind,” with “criminal intent,” Bugliosi says, thus, “every killing of an American soldier that took place during Bush’s war was an ‘unlawful killing’ and murder.”
Bugliosi explains that a person is guilty of a crime under the theory of aiding and abetting if he instigates an act that leads to a crime. Bush’s invasion brought into existence the Iraqi opposition and his action caused Iraqis to kill American soldiers…” Besides, unless Bush intended to have a war without casualties, “which is nonsensical on its face,” Bugliosi says, “he did, in fact, specifically intend to have American soldiers killed.”
“In my opinion,” Bugliosi continues, “there certainly is more than enough evidence against Bush to justify bringing him to trial and letting an American jury decide whether or not he is guilty of murder, and if so, what the appropriate punishment should be.”Based on the evidence the author spreads out over 344 pages, he feels convinced “a competent prosecutor could convict Bush of murder.”
Bugliosi points out that he convicted Charles Manson of the seven Tate-La Bianca murders even though Manson did not participate in any of the killings, nor was he present at the time.He was able to secure Manson’s conviction, he noted, because of the “vicarious liability rule of conspiracy, which provides that each member of a conspiracy is criminally responsible for all crimes committed by his coconspirators or innocent agents of the conspirators to further the object of the conspiracy.”
Among the Iraq war conspirators Bugliosi identified are Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Bugliosi said he knew less about former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s culpability but that a prosecutor could make that determination by obtaining documents and grand jury testimony from key people. The same procedure could also be followed in the case of former White House advisor Karl Rove, the attorney wrote.
Bugliosi charged Bush “is a grotesque anomaly and aberration. No president has ever done what he did and it is not likely this nation will see a president do what Bush did for centuries to come, if ever. At least we know that in the previous three centuries there was no one like this monstrous individual.”
“I would be more than happy, if requested,” Bugliosi continued, “to consult with any prosecutor who decides to prosecute Bush in the preparation of additional cross-examination questions for him to face on the witness stand.”
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(Reach Ross at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com)
Sherwood Ross has worked as a publicist for Chicago; as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and workplace columnist for Reuters. He has also been a media consultant to colleges, law schools, labor unions, and to the editors of more than 100 national magazines. A civil rights activist, he was News Director for the National Urban League, a talk show host at WOL Radio, Washington, D.C., and holds an award for "best spot news coverage" for Chicago radio stations for civil rights reporting. He is the author "Gruening of Alaska,"(Best Books)and several plays about Japan during World War II, including "Baron Jiro," and "Yamamoto's Decision," read at the National Press Club, where he is a member. His favorite quotations are from the Sermon on The Mount.
Sample Letter to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey
United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey, at AskDOJ@usdoj.gov,
over 4,100 American soldiers have been killed fighting George W. Bush's war in Iraq on "false pretenses", which are "unlawful deaths", each and every one, requiring that George W. Bush be "indicted" and "prosecuted" on "murder and conspiracy to commit murder" charges as noted and documented by renowned prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi in his stunning, best selling true crime book "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder", Vanguard Press, VIDEO LINK CLICK HERE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klYioEnpOk8
"The preferable venue for the prosecution of George W. Bush for murder and conspiracy to commit murder would be in the nation's capital, with the prosecutor being the Attorney General of the United States acting through his Department of Justice", excerpt taken from "The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder", Vanguard Press.
In view of the above information, I implore you to indict and prosecute George W. Bush accordingly.
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Gene Cappa (27 articles, 0 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 205 comments)
on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11:41:59 AM
If only we had a congress interested in exposing this corrupt cabal, they would have taken the evidence that bush was not legitimately elected in 2000 or 2004 and used that to strip him of any Executive Privileges which he has used to immunize himself.
The prosecution would be quite simple for any court to follow up on ... if only.
I wonder how things will play out. I like to retain some optimism, even in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. But, DAMN the enablers.
I believe we do not have an agreement with them for extradition.
The best scenario would be to first impeach, then prosecute. That would show the rest of the world we, as a nation, do not condone what he and his criminal aides have done to the world and the prosecution would restore the confidence in our judicial system that nobody is above the law.
In the prosecution it may well come out that those 3000 citizens mass murdered on 9/11 should be included along with the 4100+ killed in Iraq.
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Dennis Kaiser (14 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 229 comments)
on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 3:37:20 PM
I just ordered Mr. Bugliosi's fascinating new book and listened to him again last night, as the host of the show exclaimed that George Bush, this psychopath has committed even more serious offenses than Charles Manson and yet still roams about smiling and smirking as if nothing were the matter. Not to mention that our troops and the people of both Afghanistan and Iraq who'll perish needlessly from the depleted uranium we've littered all over their country's.
These illegal wars had nothing whatsoever to do with weapons of mass destruction and everything to do with oil. The weapons were merely a cover for this truculent administration's maniacal plan of Middle East hegemony, and control of the vast amounts of oil beneath it's sands.
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Munich (0 articles, 66 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 827 comments)
on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 6:57:36 PM
Pelosi and Conyers must go. We must hold all of them accountable, starting with my own complicit rep, Congressman Delahunt, D-MA, who feels impeachment would be a "political distraction". From what? our oil grab in Iraq? There is no room for party politics in impeaching. There are too many compelling Constitutional, legal reasons to impeach staring us right in the face. Kucinich and Wexler are true heros, willing to standup to both parties. We need more leaders like them and to get rid of all the spineless and clueless reps who back Bush. Find out who your rep is and their position on impeachment. Don't let them get away with this. Remind them they work for us and they are not producing, not listening to us and that they will be out of a job next election. Call them or write them. Stay in their face. Doing nothing but complain to your friends makes you the a--hole and the reason our country is being flushed down the toilet: APATHY. History will look at us no less coldly than it does the majority of Germans who capitulated to the Nazis.
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Nick van Nes (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 110 comments)
on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 11:07:54 PM
Actually the number is much higher. Any county prosecuter or district attorney, who has had a service person killed in Iraq could bring charges. In fact, any person can go to their local prosecuter/district attorney with a felony charge of murder, or (in many states) request to appear before a local Grand Jury to request charges by that Grand Jury.
Stirling
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Lord Stirling (24 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 132 comments)
on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:01:16 AM
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