Should Bush be tried for genocide in Iraq?????    He is war criminal!?
398530
I have just one thing to say...LOOK UP THE WORD GENOCIDE.
875728
It is more of politics than justice.If innocent people killed is the criterion,Bush might have killed more people than Saddam.It is the personal grudge between Mr.Bush and Sddam.The judges were biased.No mass destruction weapons were found in Iraq.When the world commmnity wants abolishing of capital punishment,it was an unfotunate verdict.
960981
I agree with the second guy. There is no way to charge Bush with a war crime (and I believe that crimes against humanity is a war crime) because of some international legal bullsh'it. I can't remember how it goes since it gets a little complicated, but bottom line, it can't be filed.\n\nGermany's going in the right direction though. They filed criminal charges against Rumsfeld but can't try him. All this is to create a precedent against Bush and his cronies. Good job, Germany.
33497
Bush going to war violates international law but it does not constutute war crimes such as genocide. According to the Un resolution 1441:\n\n"The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations."\n\nTherefore the US can not declare war alone, it must do so in conjunction with the UN, this is why there was a coalition of the willing not the UN as one body. And this statement cites sanctions as appropriate actions not an invasion. Also this statement in effect recalls previous resolutions that list it's expectations of Iraq and calls for continued weapons inspections to which the inspectors found no weapons and concluded the resolution had been abided by.\n\nWith that said the US has commited war crimes, I think obvious example might be (I apologize for the spelling) Abu Grahib or kidnapping suspected terrorists from other countries and not labeling them as prisoners of war and therefore not abiding by the Geneva conventions in providing those prisoners with what the conventions declare them access to. Bush himself declared this a war on terror. As to whether Bush ordered these events to happen despite some evidence is still somewat inconclusive. However when he uses the words dead or alive and attempts to have bills blocked that reiterate the US stand against torture then something is amiss, and as commander in cheif it is his responsibility to ensure this does not occur which has not been done. However, he will never be convicted or tried.
88267
Not quite so, here we think that the general international policy of the United States for the past century is criminal, no matter who the president. Bush just happens to be worse than the rest. Look at it this way, he has robbed from his own people with his tax reforms. So, he is not only war criminal (like most US presidents) he is also a regular criminal-- thief :) cocaine abuser and many other things you and I will never know about.\nSpain
681553
well lets see.....hitler commited genocide and bush is just guilty of being an idiot soooooo you decide.
439967
No -- he was responsible for genocide. The most conservative estimates place the death count at his hands somewhere near a million lives. Though many of those deaths were people of other nationalities, a very large percentage were in fact Iraqis who either opposed him, or were conceived of as a threat. No one was safe -- not even his most trusted advisors.
844468
George W. Bush is a war criminal, a mass murderer and a barefaced liar. He can't be charged since he is still in power. "Diplomatic Immunity".  Because he lied, our troops died. Because of his arrogance and his favoritism between Shiites and Sunnis, a civil war occurred in Iraq and death among innocent people multiplied. So who is responsible for all this fiasco and death in Iraq? Bush and his Evil Team are responsible.
1172200
the "war on terror" is not a real war.\nit is like the "war on crime" you CAN'T BEAT THEM!\n\nas for bush, he should have been impeached after his first day in office. Al Gore won the 200 presidential election.\n\nBush is a war criminal. \n\nhis administration has openly totured people without giving them a fair trial, or even lawers. \n\nhe lead a pre-emptive war on false information, which he KNEW was flase before he made the announcement.\n\nhe has repeatively stepped over his heighth of power, over ruling other branches of the government.\n\nhe profits of the racist, bullsh*t war both politically and finacialy.
1121157
I'm sure he is a repug - those people are the most hypocrite of all.  \n\nEverything that they hate in others they commit themselves.  I think he should be jailed!!
171199
Absolutely. And then we should throw him in jail for all the people he's killed...both in iraq and here in the states (Katrina)
833821
If we celebrate the conviction of Saddam, then we should also convict our own President, as he is just as guilty of "war crimes" as Saddam and then we should celebrate his conviction as well. As far as I know, Bin Laden is still in hiding, although I am sure our President has always known where he is and will never bring him to justice...Bin Laden didn't have a personal feud with Daddy Bush, only Saddam. Just my opinion folks...don't come down on me too hard, but I'm not in favor of this war in Iraq, and I feel we have no business there. When all the weapons of mass destruction were NEVER found, we should have high tailed it back home and let those people live in peace or at least live the way they are accustomed to, there has always been holy wars over there and we have no business in a holy war with them or anyone else for that matter.
1102499
Actually I'm not sure people have thought this one through, while Hitler's extermination of the Jews can never be forgiven. Bush is probably responsible for more misery and death globally than Hitler was. His cowardice in exercising his legal obligation to prevent genocide in places like Somalia (Colin Powell said it was genocide - you pro-Bush folks) and other areas of the world. Combined with the onslaught of violence in Iraq and Afghanistan (which never had anything to do with Al Qaeda but everything to do with oil, otherwise he would invade Saudia Arabia and arrests Osama's family).\n\nHis inability to treat the third world as equals, causing US companies to feel OK about using child labour in India, China, The Phillipines etc. perpetuates misery, poverty and death on millions.\n\nHis inability to tax the rich like they should be taxed and reorient some of the obscene wealth to improve the lives of billions, is a crime against nature itself. The richest 3 men in the world are worth more (in money) than the 15 poorest nations on earth. Over 1 billion people survive on less than 1 US dollar a day. Over 2 billion people still do not have access to clean drinking water.\n\nAnd his many other crimes are at least as appalling as that of the German regime.\n\nDo I think Bush makes Hilter look like Mary Poppins? No. Do I think there's a good case for them being considered equally awful - you bet.
694729
How do you not support it?  He committed genocide and killed thousands of people in his own country and then just dumped them in mass graves like animals.  He was attempting to "cleanse" his country to his liking, much like Hitler.  He isn't the only one - how about that upstanding leader in Darfur?  There's a real dilly for you...  I'm not much for capital punishment since DNA testing has set free more than a couple people on death row who were proved innocent.  But in a case like Saddam?  Who needs DNA, the whole world knows who was running that show.  I say hang him on public TV.
152498
Bush brings chaos to anything he touches. He really should be deported to Iraq, and made to serve with those that he sent to their deaths for a made-up cause.
1004436
I think when we become them that we are losing the war. To torture or kill innocent civilians is just plain wrong and I do not care which side is doing it. I think that the ones responsible ought to be held accountable for their actions and the one most responsible, the president should have to stand right beside them in an international court and defend their actions. I feel that Bush is guilty for leading us into the war for no good reason in the first place and he and his cabinet should be tried as war criminals. It would give me more pleasure then it should for the camera's to be on when they dragged him down the white house steps in hand cuffs and leg irons and wearing an orange jumpsuit to take him to this trial.
985647
Very good question...\n\nMy answer is merely opinion. I think Bush has not been charged with war crimes, while he clearly has committed them, because the USA is currently the only superpower.\n\nThink about it... what if Germany had been the only superpower during WW2 and had won? The world wouldn't have been able to charge Hitler with war crimes.