Citizen’s Tribunal Indicts Bush Administration for War Crimes

[kerrygoddess]

Citizen’s Tribunal Indicts Bush Administration for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
January 9th, 2006

On Tuesday, January 10th, “an unprecedented series of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity, in five separate areas, on moral, political, and legal grounds, will be delivered by a citizens’ tribunal to Bush at the front gate of the White House.”

Named in the indictments are: President of the United States George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, U.S. Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, et al.

The indictments will be delivered to the White House by: Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors William Blum and Larry Everest, Code Pink, Mike Hersh (Progressive Democrats of America/After Downing Street), Kevin Zeese (Director, Democracy Rising; candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland), Travis Morales (World Can’t Wait — Drive Out the Bush Regime) and others TBA.

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1594

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Wonder how many of these folks

will be placed on the No Fly list tomorrow?

[Doctor_J]

2. Don't worry

all those people have been on the list for months already.

[Trevelyan]

3. Leave a message of encouragement.

hank you for posting this and thank you to the brave folks who are doing this.

A link to the Worldwide Tribunal on Iraq would be welcome since the media ignored this important indictment of bush/cheney regime.

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1594

[Burning Water]

4. I'd feel a lot better about this

if it were something with some teeth in it rather than some pompous windbags moralizing. I wonder when the Repuke hard-core are going to start having "treason" trials? They'd have just as much authority and effect.

[ladjf]

5. They are framing the case. And while the gesture has no

judicial "teeth" as you said, I believe that any time and any way we can educate the public about the criminal activities of the administration, it's a good thing to do. Sure, "teeth" would be better. But, in order for there to be "teeth", the opposition would need more clout in Congress. If we can overcome some of the crooked voting operations, we might just get that clout in 2006.

I wouldn't characterize the framers of the initiative as "pompous windbags, moralizing".

[Burning Water]

6. There are better ways

to frame the case. Logical argument would be one. Far better than kangaroo courts by moralizing, pompous windbags.

The thing I worry about is that the whole thing makes the anti-war side look ridiculous, and it's not. Also, what is to prevent the right from conducting their own trials of prominent Democrats for "treason"? Nothing, insofar as I can see. After all, the right has recently been adopting some of the tactics of the left. Demonstrations and lawsuits for example. They've had some success with it, too.

Still, it is a matter of tactics, and I'm not the general. But I think it's a terrible idea.

[ladjf]

7. I'm unable to see why you support your position. We'll just have

to chalk this argument off as one of those disagreements.

[Burning Water]

8. I guess so, but

understand that I am not against war crime trials for war criminals. I'm against buffoonery, which is what I consider this to be.

I guess I prefer logical argument using facts to street theater.

It all boils down to this: I am not a cheerleader.

Cheers. :)