It would be wonderful if Canada actually had the balls to follow through and prosecute Bush as a war criminal. He has very clearly violated nearly every aspect of the Geneva Convention - the sole reason he hasn't be prosecuted is the immense wealth of the US and the power it wields in the world. If this cretin were some third world dictator (as opposed to a first world dictator), he'd already be captured and on trial - unless, of course, he were one of the many third world dictators supported by the United States.
The day Bush is indicted for anything is the day aliens invade earth and take over. All this talk about Bush being indicted for war crimes is getting awfully old. I have been hearing this shit for the past four years and nothing has happened. Bush should be indicted for a lot of things, but anyone with a brain knows that will never happen.
I think if Canada indicted Bush, he would just invade Canada and call them terrorist and tell the American people that it will take hard work but we can overthrow the evil empire that is Canada.
LaughinWillow--You're intellectually lazy, and for sure, not a political scientist. You don't have the first clue--actually none of you hippies has a clue--to what the Geneva Convention actually says. To proclaim the President of the United States a war criminal is to show everyone on this site (not that they care, nor disagree with you) your lack of intelligence and formal education.
So do you even have a point to explain, or are you just here to insult liberals? Take the trolling somewhere else.
What if Bush is an alien, thus they've already invaded and taken over? http://www.internetweekly.org/iwr/parody_bush_ufos.html (sorry I'm not adding much to the discussion... but uh... yeah)
The guy who wrote the article is one of the best journalists in Canada. He knows what he's talking about, and he's right. Unfortunately, Canada has no choice but to kow-tow to the U.S. and there's no chance in hell that Canada will indict Bush. The economic repercussions would alone be devastating.
I find it interesting to note that you hippies hate George W. Bush and call him a terrorist, but all the while, you side with America's enemies. I also find it rather hypocritical that you hippies are ALWAYS talking about "human rights" and "peace" and "love," but when it actually comes to implementing those philosophies through action, you're the first to scream out against the use of force to accomplish such things. Let me give you a reminder, because you all are fools: The "New York Times" reported that "Saddam Hussein, in his 23 years in power, plunged [his] country into a bloodbath of medieval proportions, and exported some of that terror to his neighbors." And according to Human Rights Watch, by war and terror, Saddam had killed a million Iraqis--290,000 civilians (50,000 to 100,000 Kurds by nerve agents and mustard gas in 1987-1988) and the rest attributable to the wars he caused in Iran and Kuwait. Ahhh...my young hippies, even witnesses and victims cataloged the atrocities of the secret police: raping wives and daughters to force confessions, eye-gouging, electrocutions, acid baths, and assassinations. Many more victims had been tortured and maimed. In 1999, to curtail complaints of prison overcrowding, possibly thousands of inmates were systematically executed. And according to Britain's Tony Blair, speaking in 2003, 400,000 children died in Iraq in the previous five years as a result of the regime stealing or preventing the delivery of food and medical supplies from the international community. And of course, as we all know today, a U.S. congressional investigation uncovered that Saddam himself stole $21 billion from the United Nation's Oil-For-Food scam. The UN. Your beloved world body. A useless, morally-corrupt insane asylum run by a foul, evil man named Kofi Annan. And of course, it should come to no surprise that Saddam venerated Joseph Stalin. But in your loser hippie minds, George W. Bush is bad, bad, bad. You all are nothing but useful idiots for America's enemies.
The amount of Iraqis who have been killed since the invasion by British and American troops is at about 100,000. In a year they managed 1/3 of what Saddam managed in 23 years! I do agree with you that people do just seem to slate Bush and tout him as this, that and the other without actually knowing fuck all about the situation but in truth as awful as the Saddam regime was the country is actually far worse off now than it was beforehand. The war took place because of the ulterior motives not for the proclaimed liberation of the Iraqi people that's the problem. Also with regards to the Geneva Convention, America has violated it during the war in Iraq (which lets remember was an illegal war form the start). Where was the regard for Article 3 Section 1 (which outlines the treatment of prisoners) in the Abu-Graib prison? Where was the regard for it also in the case of the American soldier who shot an unarmed, wounded Iraqi? I think that George Bush is a danger and has done more damage than good, I however do not side with his enemies. I do however agree you about the UN, the UN has become a joke and is in major need of drastic reforms.
FSU2112, You seem to see the current situation in black and white. In reality, there are many colorful people and rotating doors involved. And yes, in the original sense of the Convention, Bush's administration IS breaking more then one aspect of the Geneva Convention (and also supported IRAQ breaking it with chemical weapon use in the 80s against IRAN). In another sense, you are correct in saying he is not guilty of war crimes, because the Bush admin has had lawyers and attorneys pick apart the Geneva convention and come up with insane reasoning that literally puts them above the law.