Should Bush be tried like Saddam?
960299
We can only hope that some day Bush will be held to account for his crimes against humanity.
967203
Of course.\nBush, Cheney, and their posse should all be investigated.
380783
Assuming that he is found innocent, and that he is released he wold not be simply placed back in the office of President of Iraq.\n\nIraq, though they seem to be dragging their feet, has a parlimentary style government in place.  That being said if Saddam wanted back in the club he would first have to get his party together, get them to win a majority of seats in the legislature, and then get himself named Prime Minister... all of that is unlikely... but possible... \n\n*assuming* that he makes it out of the trial as an innocent man.
897754
He should go to court for "war crimes".
1071210
George Bush is the one who needs to apologize to both the Iraqi citizens and the American citizens. By invading a sovereign nation that DID NOT attack us, Bush led an illegal, unconstitutional war that has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens and 2,500 U.S. soldiers. \n\nAn apology is insufficient. Bush should also be impeached, and then tried of high treason. If convicted, he should face a firing squad for the atrocities he condoned as Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. armed forced. As Harry Truman once said, "The buck stops here." Bush needs to accept full responsibility for the massacre and carnage he initiated.\n\nGeorge Bush attacked Iraq for two reasons: 1) He wanted to 'get even' with Hussein for humiliating George H.W. Bush during Desert Storm, and 2) Dick Cheney wants all the oil that swims underneath Iraqi sands. Those are the ONLY two reasons we're engaged in this murderous war.\n\nThe USA will never withdraw from Iraq until Dick Cheney has a rock-solid, iron-clad deal in place to get all of Iraq's oil. \n\nBush, a spoiled rich kid, has never had to be accountable for anything he's ever done in his wretched life. He got out of a drunk-driving charge thanks to his father's influence. He got out of military service, thanks to his father's accommodations. He was elected president, thanks to his father's ability to steal an election through fraud and manipulation of the Supreme Court.\n\nBush, a former drug user and chronic alcohol abuser, has not had to live up to any responsibility - ever. So why should it bother him that he has been responsible for so many deaths?\nIsolated from reality and protected by the most corrupt, evil, incompetent U.S. Congress ever to occupy the Capitol Building, Bush can play 'cowboy' and act as 'macho' as he sees fit. \n\nCheck out BUSHWACKER! - a new blog at www.blogger.com http://al-aback.blogspot.com\n\nOf course, George Bush will never apologize. He is committed to turning America into a third-world police state where common citizens are suspect and you are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Bush has one other concern: make sure the wealthy and rich individuals, powerful corporations, lobbyists, and special interest groups all get special attention so they can continue to funnel vast amount of dollars into the GOP coiffers. \n\nHistory will remember George H. Bush as the dumbest man ever to be elected President, to date, in this country. His deer-in-the-headlights look gives him away everytime. He knows he's lying to you, and his beady little eyes demonstrate that he expects, anyday now, that some avid card-carrying NRA member will shoot him right between the eyes. Bush has brought shame to the American people, and has devastated our democracy. We don't need his apology; but we'll need years of rebuilding to repair all the damage he's done. \n\nThe sad fact is that there is no bright alternative on the horizon (neither Republican or Democrat). Politicians today only care about enriching themselves and getting re-elected, the American people be damned. Until that hubris and arrogance is stopped and replaced with a genuine desire to become a true public servant, Americans will continue to wallow in a cesspool of political swampland. Like lawyers, if politicians were thrown into a marshy, stinking swamp, even the pondscum would throw them back!
262405
Indeed, I wonder how long he'd last on the streets of Baghdad! I think one would have to be extremely politically correct to worry whether or not Saddam's getting a fair trial... Sad though it is - and a noble experiment - Bush's plan to bring democracy to Iraq has predictably turned to crap; give them democracy and they'll elect an autocratic cleric or madman. The Middle East typically produces characters like Saddam, essentially because that's what it wants. You can't educate people who are stuck in the Dark Ages.
274286
Well, I'm sure many of us do... after all, Saddam doesn't have the best reputation in the worldwide community of us "ordinary Joes".\n\nBut I, for one, am glad the soldier didn't pull the trigger.  Little doubt the thought crossed his mind for at least a microsecond, LOL!!  I'm not crazy about the man either.  But I am a huge fan of giving someone a fair trial, no matter how horrible the charges are against him.  That, after all, is a keystone of the American democracy.  Remember, England had an oppressive Court system that sat at the Palace of Westminster from 1487 to 1641 known as the Star Chamber.  Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing, and counsel was mandatory.  Even after the abolishment of the Star Chamber, the British subjects were still subjects to religious persecution, excessive taxes and unfair court systems with harsh punishments.  It was these kinds of oppressive conditions that led to the founding of the United States.  These colonials had grown tired of the oppression and sought to create a new land with a new and fair government, free of the tyranny of the King.  A new republic was born through war and struggle, a republic where freedom and a democratic ("of the people") society could live.  If we are there in Iraq to promote democracy, then we need to show examples.  \n\nThat soldier made the lesson crystal-clear by allowing Saddam's fate to be decided in a court, not a spider hole.
950561
I agree with your assesment.\n\nIf Bush knowingly lied to the American people, and approved of high civilian casualties.....then he should be impeached and charged with war crimes.
454272
Bush isn't the sharpest nail in the nail-gun is he. You know what gets me is, Bush has been doing it all in every bodies faces. So he and his crew need to be extra punished don't you think. I really think maybe executed, to stop all of this madness, and to take the American Presidency more seriously. That what I personally think with George Bush disgracing the Presidency before the World. The best the Republican dirty tricks squad could get on Clinton was a headjob (WHICH THE WORLD VIEWS CLINTON AS A MAN). Nobody in the World cares,but the Republicans 30% pathetic sociopaths.
1008093
Yes, he is.  His administration is responsible for the war crimes of:  1.  A war of aggression.  2.  At times, ignoring the Geneva conventions.  eg. torture of POWs, targetting civilians...\n\nHis administration has consistently blocked serious investigation of events of 9/11.  Lies to justify attacking Iraq.  Protection of corporate interests at the expense of the poor, domestically and internationally.  Repression of independent media (ie. not corporate owned with nationalist leanings)  And so on, and so on...  Hippocracy of having nuclear weapons at their disposal, and threatening their use, while claiming that no other nations (especially Muslim nations) should ever have this right.  Further, nations labelled as enemies are denied by the US their internationally lawful right to pursue nuclear technology for electricity production.  Yes, Bush is a tyrant.  His policies have led to the deaths of thousands of US soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (many civilians), and many others.  He is guilty of war crimes, and should be held accountable for his aggressive, imperialist crimes.  Impeachment, international trial, jail.
14238
Bush is the same as Saddam?  When was the last time that Bush tried to commit genocide?\nThis country will come out of "turmoil" when liberals realize that Bush is not the worst person in the world and get over the fact the he won two presidential elections and they didn't.  We will come out of turmoil when liberals finally decide to be on America's side.
865735
saddam hussein DESERVES death. he killed thousands people, he used chemical weapons against iranians and kurds. \nso does Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and other men who are waging war in Iraq. They also deserves death. They killed much more innocents than Saddam. If saddam deserves to be hanged, why don't they?
181376
Genocide would probably be hard to stick.  If you get liberal enough in your definitions (get the pun?) you could "convict" pretty much any government that's more than a hundred or so years old with quite a bit.  This is all moot since governments aren’t private citizens and thus can’t be tried as such and your question was about presidents anyways. Saddam Hussein is a self-admitted murderer and thug.  The fact that he couldn’t get an impartial trial anywhere in the western world doesn’t change this fact.  Most American presidents act outside American law at some point in their administration (even if it’s just to steal silverware from the white house upon moving out).  And the answer is no, the fact that they aren’t convicted of these things doesn’t mean we can’t allow the Iraqi people to charge Saddam for as many of the destructive things he did as they care too.
770391
President George Bush is nothing more than a pedofile and criminal. He orchestrated the terror attacks of 911 and has committed crimes against humanity and other countries.\nHere is a list of some of the things he is guilty of.....\n\n1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.\n\n2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.\n\n3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable. \n\n4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.\n\n5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.\n\n6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.\n\n7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.\n\n8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.\n\n9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."\n\n10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.\n\n11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.\n\n12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion
286661
Saddam committed his alleged crimes within the boundaries of Iraq and should be subject to Iraqi justice if indeed he is found to be guilty.  I have believed all along that the Iraqi people are the ones that need to handle whatever is to be Saddam's fate.  \n\nIn view of the controversy surrounding the death of Slobodan Milosevic, I am a lot more comfortable that Saddam will receive actual justice and we will not have to worry about this kind of thing putting a cloud over the whole thing.
459512
The trial is the way to go. I know it is a pain to watch this thing drag out. We've got to give the Iraqi people a chance to develop their democracy. This is a great exercise in controlling impulses to just kill someone with out a trial. The people of Iraq need this to know that if the worst among has been treated fairly then if they go to court they will also be treated fairly.\n\nIt sure would have been great to kill him in the short run, but in the long term success of Iraq as a free nation this is the way it has to happen.
1125374
I have a dream, I see George Bush and the rest of his administration being led down the white house steps in hand cuffs and leg Irons, under arrest for his crimes against humanity. As far as I am concerned the domestic charges can wait. He has killed, and maimed many innocent people in Iraq with his war of choice. He had no real compelling reason to attack a sovereign country with the sole purpose of over thrown their government. His holding hostages in Cuba, torturing prisoners the list of these crimes are many. I would like to see him on trial so that justice could be done.