20 years on, should George W. Bush be on trial for Iraq?

[peppertree]

[Blues Heron]

1. Definitely. Remember that fraud vial of prop powder he made Colin hold up at the UN?

total fraud

[no_hypocrisy]

2. YUP

[2naSalit]

3. YES!!

He should have been tried way back then.

[yourout]

4. To late now... He should be finishing his sentence not...

Starting it

[Blues Heron]

5. He should be locked up for life no parole

[LakeArenal]

6. We can't get trump frickin in jail.

Bush is long past.

[czarjak]

7. "I'm a member of a secret society, a society so secret, I can't even talk about it"?

That bullshit still pisses me off.

[Warpy]

8. Only if Cheney and Curveball are hauled in, as well

Iraq was more Cheney's idea, he was a signatory to the PNAC fantasy of sending the entire Middle East up in flames so we (figuratievly speaking, you and I would pay through the nose for it) could grab all the oil. Anyone who read their fantasy before it was scrubbed knew what a farce it was from the beginning.

So although Dubya got himself talked into it and belongs in the dock, Cheney and his pet liar belong there with him.

[markpkessinger]

9. No, he shouldn't be on trial now. He should h ave been put on trial in 2009!

But he wasn't. Why? Because President Obama wanted to "look forwards, not backward," and because Nancy Pelosi refused to start an investigation of the prior administration's war crimes.

Look, primary responsibility for what happened in Iraq rests with Bush. But there were a number of powerful Democrats who were willing to look the other way at the time. We forget that at our peril.

[markpkessinger]

10. The failure to hold anyone accocuntable for war crimes in Iraq was a bipartisan one . . .

Nancy Pelosi, who had made noises throughout 2007 and 2007 about holding Bush and his team accountable, abruptly changed here tune after the 2008 elections, and shut down any discussion of doing so among Congressional Democrats, because she didn't want to "re-litigate the past." . And in 2009, a newly-elected President Obama, when asked about the same subject, said, naively and, I daresay, rather selfishly, that he wanted to "look forward, not backwards."

Responsibility for what happened in Iraq rests squarely with Bush and his administration. But the failure to hold him accountable is a failure owned by botgh parties, sad to say.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Watch Bush's body language at about the 27:28 mark

when asked "knowing what you know now about Iraq do you still think it was it a good idea to go in?"

Thanks for the thread peppertree