Nothing drains the Jergen's lotion bottles at The Hive quite like a fantasy of a Bush arrest:
kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-18-10 10:46 AM
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Mayor Of London Warns George W Bush-War Criminal: 'Bring Book Tour To Britain & Never See TX Again' Updated at 5:22 PM
Edited on Thu Nov-18-10 10:50 AM by kpete
The Mayor Of London On George W. Bush, War Criminal
18 Nov 2010 10:31 am
Boris Johnson is a total Tory and an old friend from college days. In a piece in the conservative Daily Telegraph, he advises George W. Bush not to bring his book tour to Britain, because he could face arrest as a war criminal:
It is not yet clear whether George W Bush is planning to cross the Atlantic to flog us his memoirs, but if I were his PR people I would urge caution. As book tours go, this one would be an absolute corker. It is not just that every European capital would be brought to a standstill, as book-signings turned into anti-war riots. The real trouble — from the Bush point of view — is that he might never see Texas again.
“Waterboarding†is a disgusting practice by which the victim is deliberately made to think that he is drowning. It is not some cunning new psych-ops technique conceived by the CIA. It has been used in the dungeons of dictators for centuries. It is not compatible either with the US constitution or the UN convention against torture. It is deemed to be torture in this country, and above all there is no evidence whatever that it has ever succeeded in doing what Mr Bush claimed. It does not work.
How could America complain to the Burmese generals about the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi, when a president authorised torture? How can we talk about human rights in Beijing, when our number one ally and friend seems to be defending this kind of behaviour? I can’t think of any other American president, in my lifetime, who would have spoken in this way. Mr Bush should have remembered the words of the great Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said in 1863 that “military necessity does not admit of crueltyâ€. Damn right.
more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohn...
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/20...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9582584&mesg_id=9582584Pass the tissue.
marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Nov-18-10 10:47 AM
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1. I'd love to see * hauled off by the Yard. Updated at 5:41 PM
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Nov-18-10 10:48 AM
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2. Why give a warning? That was ill-considered. n/t
BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Nov-18-10 10:54 AM
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6. W should go see the Queen
Please, W, go see the Queen, and give her a big wet kiss for me while you're there.
Please, W, here's your last chance to make us all happy.
I think he's already met Barney Frank. No kisses were exchanged, though.
Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Thu Nov-18-10 10:53 AM
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3. We could all chip in and buy the air fare. A tune is running thru my head...
"All I want for Christmas is..." Hmmmmm!
Does anyone else notice how often this is coming up these days? That book may not have been a good idea for GW.
DirkGently Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Nov-18-10 10:56 AM
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8. It would be tragic if some country secretly "extradited" Bush to face these charges.
RZM (767 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Nov-18-10 11:16 AM
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22. I doubt Bush would risk going to Europe to promote his book
But let's think through what would happen here if he were apprehended in a foreign country. It would probably end up being the major political scandal of the era and would absolutely dominate the news cycle for a long time. It would cause a serious row with whatever country picked him up, but more importantly for us, it would have a devastating impact on domestic politics. Polls would probably show overwhelming opposition to the action (because a lot of people who vote Democratic would not support 'their' president being deprived of his liberty and tried under another legal system and Republican voters would universally oppose it) and Republican politicians/talking heads would milk it for all it was worth, which would force many Dems, including the President, to condemn it in the strongest possible terms, but that wouldn't fully insulate them from the damage. It would be an utter disaster for the Democratic Party and depending on what happened after, would probably increase Republican margins in the house, flip the Senate, and cost Obama his job in 2012.
Well, at last one person is still on their meds over there.
