Do you think its possible to condemn Bush for crimes against human kind/something along those lines (assuming there are any).
If so, who has the power to take him to trial.
If so, who has the power to take him to trial.
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not a chance.
No, he's too stupid to commit crimes against humanity. He's like a retard with a gun...you can't really hold him responsible.
Problem is the rest of the planet is likely to hold your entire country responsible, not particularly fair as the actual percentage of you that voted FOR him is quite small...... But that's what's going to happen. *shrugs*
I'm from Canada. I feel like the passenger in a car driven by a coked up drunk...
Maybe that's a bad analogy?
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I personally (and I'm sure there are legions that will disagree with me) feel that Bush has committed some serious crimes. The reality is that this is the President and we don't jail our leaders, this isn't Liberia. Most smart ppl will tell you that jailing Bush would be admitting that our democracy has failed. We will just try to change things in the next election.
True. Charles Taylor hasn't killed as many people as Bush has...
No I don't feel it would be admitting Democracy had failed, I feel that it would only be a realistic admittance that he personally had failed democracy and his people.
I totally agree, and i found this sentence, that kind of says the same, romantic style.
Keith Olbermann
"It's like seeing a car crash from inside the car
The driver's got his head craned back he's telling you a joke
You see the bus on collision course
You point your arm and turn your head and wait for the impact
This is the feeling we learn to live with in North America
The morning headlines always accompanied with sweat and nausea
Every week another puzzle piece gets permanently glued into place"
I disagree, democracy worked perfectly. Unlike 2000, he even garnered more votes in the popular vote count than Kerry.
What failed was:
a) an apathetic american public who didn't turn out to vote (122,293,332 voted, just under 60%). This is the highest number in years, but still means 40% of eligible voters have no right to complain at all as they were too lazy to get off their fat asses and actually take part in democracy.
b) an uneducated american public who vote strictly along party lines because of hot button issues (gay marriage, religion in schools, gun ownership rights etc) or because this is the way that their parents voted.
If people became educated and voted for the entire package, many people would change votes. The last paper i read on this about 3 years ago, figured that the independants (depending on the candidate of course) could gain a large single digit % of votes. In an election this close, that could change a whole lot.