An American Prosecutor Accuses George Bush of Killing Thousands of Americans and Iraqis

The American political life doesn’t provide any of its followers evidence or historical precedents supporting the idea of prediction. If anybody said after the September 11 attacks an American who, apart from being black, has a middle name of "Hussein" would be president of the United States, he would definitely be accused of madness. Furthermore, if anybody said that the United States, after more than half a century since the second World War, will not provide health care insurance to more than 50 million Americans, he would also be accused of madness.

Therefore, we can’t now accuse someone who says that former U.S. president George Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney may face a criminal trial on charges of violating human rights and American laws of madness.

The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama started taking the first steps along a thorny path. This led to a question which seemed to be unrealistic few months ago: “Will these steps lead to put Bush and Cheney behind bars?”

However, it seems that 130,000 Americans are really interested in this matter, which reflects a conviction amongst many for the need to prosecute the former president for his policies. Thus, they rushed upon buying the book of the famous American prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi entitled: “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Over 130,000 copies have been sold calling for the prosecution of the former president on charges of murder as a result of his lies concerning the war in Iraq and trumping up the facts.

Some legal experts in Washington question whether there’s a possibility of legal arguments that can one day enable the prosecution of George Bush and his top aides. According to Bugliosi, “there is enough evidence that can condemn George Bush and allow direct accusations against him on charges of a criminal act and I’m sure that the jury will condemn the former president.” The book cites a documented case in which the White House called on the CIA to create a state of imagined links between the regime of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda network led by Osama Bin Laden.

An American court judge appointed during the reign of George Bush ruled that former attorney general John Ashcroft doesn’t have immunity from a potential suit by a Muslim-American citizen who arrested him illegitimately under policies enacted after the 9/11 attacks. Court documents note that the FBI detained and questioned a man of African descent named Abdallah El-Kidi as the main witness concerning a terrorist case for 16 days in 2003. The defense team accuses the former attorney general of violating constitutional rights of an American citizen. A law had been passed enabling the FBI and the Justice Department to “detain and arrest suspects of terrorism that the government doesn’t possess enough evidence against them to arrest them on criminal charges in order to detain them as a precautionary measure.”

In the modern history of the United States, two presidents underwent prosecution, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. These investigations led in the first case to the resignation of President Nixon after being accused by the House of Representatives of using his presidential power and lying. It was known at that time as the Watergate scandal. This case was relegated to the Senate but the resignation of Nixon prevented him from a prosecution. Later on, President Ford pardoned him to shield him from prosecution before a federal grand jury. In the second case, Clinton was humiliated in front of the American people when he was forced to respond in front of cameras on questions concerning details about his sexual life in an investigation of the House of Representatives.