http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/09/8834/

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
by Vincent Bugliosi
There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied to Congress and to the American public — lies that have cost the lives of more than 4,000 young American soldiers and close to $1 trillion.

A Monumental Lie

In his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.

On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the U.S. This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.

According to the October 1, 2002 NIE, “Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW [chemical and biological warfare] against the United States, fearing that exposure of Iraqi involvement would provide Washington a stronger case for making war.” The report concluded that Hussein was not planning to use any weapons of mass destruction; further, Hussein would only use weapons of mass destruction he was believed to have if he were first attacked, that is, he would only use them in self-defense.

Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning, making the threat seem imminent and ominous.

In the original NIE report, members of the U.S. intelligence community vigorously disagreed with the CIA’s bloated and inaccurate conclusions. All such opposing commentary was eliminated from the declassified White Paper prepared for Congress and the American people.

The Manning Memo

On January 31, 2003, Bush met in the Oval Office with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. In a memo summarizing the meeting discussion, Blair’s chief foreign policy advisor David Manning wrote that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons would ever be found in Iraq, and that there was tension between Bush and Blair over finding some justification for the war that would be acceptable to other nations. Bush was so worried about the failure of the UN inspectors to find hard evidence against Hussein that he talked about three possible ways, Manning wrote, to “provoke a confrontation” with Hussein. One way, Bush said, was to fly “U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, [falsely] painted in UN colors. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach” of UN resolutions and that would justify war. Bush was calculating to create a war, not prevent one.

Denying Blix’s Findings

Hans Blix, the United Nation’s chief weapons inspector in Iraq, in his March 7, 2003, address to the UN Security Council, said that as of that date, less than 3 weeks before Bush invaded Iraq, that Iraq had capitulated to all demands for professional, no-notice weapons inspections all over Iraq and agreed to increased aerial surveillance by the U.S. over the “no-fly” zones. Iraq had directed the UN inspectors to sites where illicit weapons had been destroyed and had begun to demolish its Al Samoud 2 missiles, as requested by the UN. Blix added that “no evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found” by his inspectors and “no underground facilities for chemical or biological production or storage were found so far.” He said that for his inspectors to absolutely confirm that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) “will not take years, nor weeks, but months.”

Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief UN nuclear inspector in Iraq and director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the UN Security Council that, “we have to date found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapon program in Iraq.”

The UN inspectors were making substantial progress and Hussein was giving them unlimited access. Why was Bush in such an incredible rush to go to war?

Hussein Disarms, so Bush … Goes to War

When it became clear that the whole purpose of Bush’s prewar campaign — to get Hussein to disarm — was being (or already had been) met, Bush and his people came up with a demand they had never once made before — that Hussein resign and leave Iraq. On March 17, 2003, Bush said in a speech to the nation that, “Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours. Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict.” Military conflict — the lives of thousands of young Americans on the line — because Bush trumped up a new line in the sand?

The Niger Allegation

One of the most notorious instances of the Bush administration using thoroughly discredited information to frighten the American public was the 16 words in Bush’s January 28, 2003 State of the Union speech: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” The Niger allegation was false, and the Bush administration knew it was false.

Joseph C. Wilson IV, the former ambassador to Iraq, was sent to Niger by the CIA in February 2002 to investigate a supposed memo that documented the sale of uranium yellowcake (a form of lightly processed ore) to Iraq by Niger in the late 1990s. Wilson reported back to the CIA that it was “highly doubtful” such a transaction had ever taken place.

On March 7, 2003, Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN Security Council that “based on thorough analysis” his agency concluded that the “documents which formed the basis for the report of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact not authentic.” Indeed, author Craig Unger uncovered at least 14 instances prior to the 2003 State of the Union address in which analysts at the CIA, the State Department, or other government agencies that had examined the Niger documents “raised serious doubts about their legitimacy — only to be rebuffed by Bush administration officials who wanted to use them.”

On October 5 and 6, 2002, the CIA sent memos to the National Security Council, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and to the White House Situation Room stating that the Niger information was no good.

On January 24, 2003, four days before the president’s State of the Union address, the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, which oversees all federal agencies that deal with intelligence, sent a memo to the White House stating that “the Niger story is baseless and should be laid to rest.”

The 9/11 Lie

The Bush administration put undue pressure on U.S. intelligence agencies to provide it with conclusions that would help them in their quest for war. Bush’s former counterterrorism chief, Richard Clarke, said that on September 12, 2001, one day after 9/11, “The President in a very intimidating way left us — me and my staff — with the clear indication that he wanted us to come back with the word that there was an Iraqi hand behind 9/11.”

Bush said on October 7, 2002, “We know that Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy — the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaeda have had high level contacts that go back a decade,” and that “Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gasses.” Of Hussein, he said on November 1, 2002, “We know he’s got ties with Al Qaeda.”

Even after Bush admitted on September 17, 2003, that he had “no evidence” that Saddam Hussein was involved with 9/11, he audaciously continued, in the months and years that followed, to clearly suggest, without stating it outright, that Hussein was involved in 9/11.

On March 20, 2006, Bush said, “I was very careful never to say that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack on America.”

Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964. In his career at the L.A. County District Attorney’s office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson case, became the basis of his classic, Helter Skelter, the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history. The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder is available May 27.

Too bad it is only a book and not a transcript of the federal indictment. If any US Attorney had the marbles to prosecute, I think it would be a slam dunk.

Now scandals can rock any kind of administration. I think that the populace is too cowed into even acknoledging anything amiss. Hiding in plain sight. So that it is normal. And why should we ever threaten the status quo?

So what if Americans are numb, or even in fact, immune, to whatever sort of corporate/political subterfuge that is constantly being bombarded onto the average American. By 'average', I mean everybody who believes in the system and strives to live the 'American Dream'.

If this game is real... Then we as people are straight up losing.

A thread like this receives no replies because it cannot be debunked. Yet 911 and have we ever been to the moon get replies to the MOON.

People who want to learn the truth become a fringe pop that must be taken away. Why can't we just simply assume that it is all LIES, and they want control the flow of info.

For as many smart people that cruise these boards, they never make their opinion heard. Why is that?

It is either dangerous, or worthless. We have that kind of country. We have that same universal mentality.

Perhpas there are no comments because we think it is conspiracy silliness.

Perhaps the current candidates running are as equally depressing as Bush that people are left with little to say.

String him up like Sadam.

snooze,
You go on and on about the evil, far reaching tentacles of the government. How all powerful they are. How evil they are.
Yet, you still live. No midnight visits for spreading your theories and angry opinions on a "visited" site. You all but threaten the President and his staff with your frustrated fury, and nothing happens...
Could it be that you are enjoying a freedon of expression very rare on this rock we call Earth? Minnesota is a pretty liberal state (but I do love Hockey!), so opinions against the current administration are the "in thing" up there. Do you feel any peer pressure to conform with the masses against Bush?

If you were "on to someting" like so many flinging themselves wildly against the Bush machine, I mean really exposing dangerous secrets, don't you think there would have been a reaction? To you, to the 9/11FT crowd...anyone? Anyone disappeared lately? Been arrested? You all are just small pawns in the anti-Bush machine, "useful idiots" is the term.

You are a small, angry, and frustrated group of like-thinkers. Little expertise if any in the subjects you argue, glomming onto any evidence that fits your agenda, ignoring the reality based rest. You scream about the "lost/sold steel" evidence, yet cling to some tiny bit that was analyzed that slightly leans toward your foregone conclusion. Would the rest confirm your suspicions, or eradicate them? Doesn't matter, you have your "evidence"

10s of thousands saw the plane impacts into the WTC, but, as the FAA and CSI types well understand, eyewitness accounts are questionable at best, until corroborated. These have been corroborated. Big jets hit the towers.

Much is made of "never before" have steel framed buildings been brought down by aircraft or fire. None of the analogies include BOTH, and magnitudes above any previous either/or incident. This was unprecedented and any attempted comparison in aircraft/impact speed/construction/fire intensity pales in comparison. Both the incredible impacts AND the fires, by kerosene and many, many acres of combustables, brought these towers down. There was no "melying steel" in the fires, nor was it required. WTC7 suffered damage, significant damage. And fires. The firefighters were concerned about it's structural integrity, I read no accounts where firefighters wanted to go in and put them out. They were not surprised by the order to get away, nor the collapse.

Finally, we get the vast majority of our oil from countries other than Iraq, from western hemisphere countries. Have been for some time. Canada and Mexico are biggies, along with Saudia Arabia. Iraq is down the list...hardly worth starting a war for. There were other motives which you may not remember...or been around for.

Do some simple research, look at, and STUDY, both sides of your argument. And realize that there are some things you may never fully understand, because you haven't been there. I accept these limitatations, can you? There are folks called experts, and a thing called consensus.

The expert consensus is not wearing 9/11FT T-shirts and howling at ground zero every anniversary, at Dylan's request. They have real jobs to do. And many of them, too, probably voted against Bush.

Most of what you say above is true. People are afraid to question things. They are also afraid to gain knowledge on such topics for fear that they would then have to acknowledge it.

If everything in the original post is true (and the only reason I don't know if it is, is because I haven't checked it myself) then it only becomes more clear what President Bush's desire was in regards to this war. It certainly shows he was looking for reasons to make it happen. It also shows how absurd it is that Hussein became the target despite the fact Osama Bin Laden was the person apparently responsible for what took place on 9/11. It seems some people are unable to accept or even fathom that reality.

Then let me ask you this question - if what the original post says is true, would you care about it anyway?

The opposition is the conspiracy, they think that by doing this stuff at all the websites, it will undermine President Bush, his administration, and the republican party. If they put suspicion on them with the specious evidence that they do consider "proof", then it is a subtle programming that many idiot's fall for. The "believer's" of course. And that brings to mind the oppositions contention that the evangelicals use their religion to influence goverment, and was some sort of basis for the war on terror to start.

So lets see what the oppositions composed of, it consists of religious zionist's/liberals/femist's, who if any can recall, blitzed us all with religion/envirement, and a host of other programming from the stations controlled by them through the media when the war started, they wanted a quick so called easy war, to support their own religious liberal agenda's, when our President went to bat he had been crippled by all this, why so many of them had been fired or resigned, the same time the zionists took over congress/senate as the majority. So let's all remember the influence they all had during the clinton administration, that they claim the evangelicals are useing with the current one now.

When our President first took office, he walked into a hornets nest of backstabbing manipulations, and preplanned events from the former administration, which had placed key people before it left office to continue it's own influences, directions, and event's in motion. After getting us involved with the war on terror, the domestic side of their operation's went into play. They did all that by fooling an honest, and honorable/decent man.

But our President rallied, with the support of those who knew what the prior administration had planned, and put into motion. Our president trusted these people{the one's who screwed us all}, who were leftovers from the prior Administration, and moles for the religious zionist's. The ones who support him are loyal to our nation, as is our President. Cheney is a traitor, but don't associate him with President Bush, who is not.

But our President is made of stern, honorable, honest material, he did'nt become a supplicant to them, and sell out our nation to the religious zionist/lib/fems, he became our President, our Commander and chief. Many here know i don't lie, and that i know thing's other's can't. Basicly, our Commander told them to pock off, and he settled into what the zionists themselves had started. He grit his teeth, and pushed on to finish the mess honorably. people can say it's oil, or the other shisa that they say, and show their "proofs" yet it will never be actual evidence, because they are lie's.

Our President is fighting against a takeover by religoius terrorist's, who infest our own nation. The clinton/obama campaign is a sham, they are working together, and have been from the start. They plan to split up our nation into the federated abortion they had televised last year, coordinating with the American jewish/blkack community's, who are led by Bloomberg, who coordinates them all. I know what they are going to do, and it is armed insurrection, to impose their religion as the dominant one, and split the nation into three parts. And incedently, while this is happening, the other zionists overseas, are going to take over the rest of greater isreal.

The master plan is to weaken us, as well as distract us with many front's/internal issues, and make us weaker, and in debt. The zionists oversea's have made a deal/alliance unknown to the religious zionists over here, one with china, they plan to destoy the caucausion nations, and dominate them with their own hegomy. They accomplished this through the christian religions that support religious zionism here in the states. As well as fooling the blacks so they can generate enough chaos to start the civil war they have blinkered the religious zionists into supporting. They don't care about the religious zionists/blacks or anyone else except their own kind. Those in isreal are mostly part asian you know, and they had been communists before they came up with the religious burble to fool and destroy our own people with. By making us destroy ourselves, like they did with both world war one, and two.

All this was planned long ago by the beasts, to destroy and dominate us{caucausions} And we almost let the religious zionists destroy our identity, we can be thankful we have George in the hotseat, that i know for fact. It will begin soon, two thing's i noticed that preciptate that beginning, was when isreal threatened it's nuclear postering to the world, by saying if any of their community's are threatened, they can do damage anywhere in the world. I predicted that before here, you know, before they did that.

The second was the evangelicals finally pushing for more inforcment of the seperation of state and church, because of the influence the zionists used to start the whole mess to begin with. Their were crimes and mass murder committed all right, but our President and his administration had nothing to do with it. Makes it easier to understand why they themselves write their trash. The guilty always blame and point their fingers to a patsie, the one they had set up to use, again, lucky for us, that President Bush is no one's patsie, love you too George.

I understand your confusion and frustration. Your post was detailed, courageous, informative, and thoughtful.
Just a look at some of the lazy, petulant , and childish comments that it inspired from some drooling NWO-supporting
losers that monitor these forums is intended to clog the works with their mucous.

Vincent Bugliosi is very accomplished and savvy prosecutor. For him to come out with a book that details the list of transgressions on our way to war with Iraq, that gives this little movement some legs. If he were to lie at all about his research, he would find himself locked up and hidden from anyone who would care about his testimony. Say, sued for libel and slander and defamation of character. He is definitely onto something. I understand that he is writing the book to make money, but the book was begging to be written.

I would like to counter that the evidence presented can only amount to a conspiracy. If you didn't do anything wrong... then you should have nothing to hide.

It seems like there is everything to hide in this administration.

INTRODUCTION: George Bush, the Connecticut cowboy, the good old boy from Yale is a man of mediocre intelligence, little imagination, and great stubbornness and vindictiveness. He may be the Decider but his handlers have long known how to manipulate him. The key is to hook him with short, simple sells. Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Condoleezza Rice knew that once he has consulted his gut and perhaps his higher father his decision is forever. So whoever gets to him first is likely to carry the day because he doesn't like to be challenged and is, quite simply, too lazy to change his mind. The Bubble is a natural consequence of this decision making process where logic, reason, and facts have little or no role.

So, if you don't believe me, check out this website: http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html

Alright, with all these evidence and incidents that seem to indicate that Iraq really had no WMD and is not a threat prior to the Military action.
How come none of our law makers or the United Nations simply proposed to withdraw the weapons inspectors, sanctions, embargoes, UN resolutions, no flyzone on Iraq and made an official declation on it?
I mean 2 years was given for the weapons inspectors for one thing.

Sure, but I don't believe it. To be believe in most CT's you must suspend logical thought.

Thanks for the compliments. I am going to put you on the NWO watch list. Time to bring out the tinfoil hats.

You probably do have to for "most" conspiracy. "Most" is still not "all" of them however.

But anway, the reason I asked you the question is because the things mentioned in the original post seem to be things that should be able to be verified as true or untrue without having to worry about some gray area inbetween.

Like I said in a previous post, I'd have to check everything myself to find out if it is all true or not. Nonetheless, I do know that some of it is true.

If I were to take the time to verify everything in the original post as true (not saying I will, but if I'm bored and find the time to do so, I might), would you then change your thoughts on the issue, or would it simply not matter to you anyway? I mean one way or another, the statements are either true or they aren't. Given what the original post says it seems like it is all information that can be verified simply by doing some google searches using the names and key terms provided. And I mean from reliable news sources, not from sites that people would be likely to question the reliability of.

It would be hard to deny if everything was verified thru legit sources. NOT CT websites and such.

The new world order is the religious zionist's that control the congress and senate as the majority, i said they had reverse spinned it all on our goverment that they are attacking with their own conspiracy.

As far as mucous, just look at what you yourself write, you sound like a college proffessor who is full of himself and the grand illusions which spin in his mind as reality. Your people have no proof, and they never will.

Great attitude!!! Your reality of your government just became a lot clearer.

bush or any other top us government official will never ever go on trial for murder because of plausable accountabilty or denial!where is the trial gonna take place?moscow?

The reality of the thing's they have done, in their attempt to be that goverment, sounds more like it. They are traitors, and will suffer their fates.

The white horse is near, i saw it.

I would like to add that a person cannot write a work of nonfiction with undocumented lies. That amounts to libel. Which is very easy to prove and even easier to prosecute. If a former prosecutor is somehow ignorant of these laws, how did he find a publisher?