| megaman79 said: This thread fails. George Bush and his cronies will produce an outstanding record of criminal and civil charges in the next few year. Obama will most likely be needed to commute sentencing for Bush's impeachment. btw that would be for a list of crominal actions, torture, illegal war, etc. |
1) the war wasn't illegal in any way. he asked for a declaration of war from congress and they gave it to them. As for whether he can be held jailed for believing faulty/fabricated intelligence reports, well, as far as I know, there is no law against believing what your advisors tell you. Another complication if you do ignore that fact is if you're going to impeach him for that, you'll have to impeach every senator and represenative who supported the resolution for war.
2) As to whether he can be jailed for 'torture' (I put it in quotes because it is challenged what exactly entails torutre as virtually all interrogation technics involve some form of physical or mental stress, all of which could potentially be considered 'torture'.) I would like to point out that you can't punish someone for breaking a law that does not exist at the time the 'crime' was committed. As of today, the Supreme Court has yet to hand down a clear ruling of exactly what rights the prisoners have and regardless of what they ultimately rule, the fact remains that during Bush's entire term of office, the torturing (because let's be upfront here: that is what they are doing and it's most likely unconstitutional) they have been doing were not ruled unconstitutional. Even if it is ruled unconstitutional in the future, Bush can't be prosecuted for it because it hadn't been decided when he was in charge of it. (Arresting him for that would be along the same lines as arresting everyone who had ever had a drink in their lives on January 16, 1919 because alcholic drinks were now illegal)
Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it
