rocketpig said:
Megaman quoted a bunch of UN resolutions and a few Supreme Court decisions, which mean little or have no bearing on Bush's legality. The Supreme Court's rulings have no punitive effect on Bush because they, by and large, were also approved by Congress. The Supreme Court is not a court that dictates punishment; they generally deal with the Constitution and the legality of laws passed. If a President was to make a "law" (which he doesn't) that is later run down by the Supreme Court, there is no basis for which that President should be prosecuted by law. It's the very nature of the United States system. Congress passes a law, a President might approve or initiate that law, but the Supreme Court simply deems it legal or not. Of course, their influence also goes to the state level but that's another subject entirely and is not relevant to this because no state can prosecute on a federal matter. As for the UN, they're a toothless entity that has no real power to enact or do anything. Looking for them to "put Bush in his place" is comical. If you really gave a shit, you would have been calling for Putin's head nearly a decade ago and you would have been arguing about the French and German involvement in the "Oil for Food" program before the Iraq War even started. I have a hard time respecting anyone who wants Bush to be prosecuted for "X" while they let the rest of the world get away with murder. Yeah, Bush was a prick. One of my three best friends on all of Earth died from a suicide bomber outside Baghdad. I had to watch a father bury his son and a wife of a year bury her mate. It was terrible. I have a million reasons to deride and despise Bush but I won't let myself stoop to the level of many of you so called "progressive thinkers". |
There are a lot more things that went on in the White House than just this stuff. There were a lot of inappropriate contacts with a lot of dubious people (see Jack Abramoff, who was one of the most frequent visitors to the White House). They even came up with an elaborate process to where it wasn't directly documented when Abramoff came and visited.
I mean really, just about every President does something illegal at one time or the other. Bush probably did a few more than normal though (including compared to other Republicans).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
