Is there a reason Bush, Cheney and Powell haven't been held accountable for WMD lie?

[Godboy]

it would set a horrible precedent as it would open the door to go after our elected representatives whenever we disagreed with anything they did.

That is the desired precedent.

So do you want Obama to go to jail for killing an American citizen with a drone strike? Open that door and that's where your precedent would lead.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

it would set a horrible precedent as it would open the door to go after our elected representatives whenever we disagreed with anything they did.

That is the desired precedent.

So do you want Obama to go to jail for killing an American citizen with a drone strike? Open that door and that's where that precedent would lead.

Yes.

I would also like Obama executed for treason for aiding and abetting Al Qaeda.

These men are supposed to be Public Servants, not Public Masters.

To quote my own book:

Although the basic concepts of Classical Liberalism have existed since antiquity, it is best to begin this inquiry at the inception of Classical Liberalism during the Age of Enlightenment. Our investigation begins with a man named John Milton and his publication that derided the concept of the Divine Right of Kings.



The theory of Divine Right asserts that God divides men by certain distinctions, Kings and Subjects, just as God divides the human species into male and female. The King is Sovereign, exercising supreme authority in all spheres of government, in all places subject to his jurisdiction; therefore, under this doctrine, the King is endowed by the Creator with unlimited rights, for all decisions made by the King are in fact the will of God.



The Subject is inferior to the King, and must accept any edict from the King without question. The Subject only has those rights which the King permits. Those rights may be revoked, denied or disparaged at any time. Some Subjects will enjoy being in a privileged class (so long as they remain in favor with the King), elevating their status in both government and society, for if God can create the Distinction of King and Subject among Men, then the King, who rules by the will of God, can create the Distinction of Nobility and Commoner among the Subjects.



Central to the doctrine of Divine Right, was that no Subject may question the King, for questioning any edict of the King was equivalent to challenging the will of God. The King being Sovereign over his Subjects, both Noble and Common, can only be judged by God, or another King, as other Kings rule by the will of God. Thus the Subjects have no power, on heaven or earth, to depose of their King.



However, during the middle of the 17thCentury, a man named John Milton came to challenge the legitimacy of the Divine Right doctrine itself. Milton, in his publication, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, argued that the King's authority was derived from the people, and thus the King's power is only granted to him by Popular Sovereignty. Most important is that the people derive this sovereignty from God, and that these Sovereigns have both the right and the obligation to overthrow a tyrannical King. Here the roles of King and Subject are reversed, the Subjects are Sovereign over the King; the King only rules as a privilege extended to him by the people, a privilege that can be revoked, denied or disparaged at any time. Overall, the King is a Servant to the Public, hence the term public servant.

 

[Rct_Tsoul]

If the American sheeple actually knew or found out what had transpired ............. the American sheeple would become so enraged, they would be calling for Nuclear annihilation of Iraq, Islam, and anyone & anything representing or even closely resembling that culture destroyed, as this was the intent of the Sandniggers to start a war of falsehood & gain allies.
As this information cannot be released ............. not even today, maybe 100 years from now or never.
The really fucked up thing about it is, the hard evidence is in plain sight and all around us, just let it go ............ seriously.

 

[NoNukes]

It's nearly 5 years into a new administration and these goons are still walking free.

Can the Democrats please hold them accountable on trial?

Obama wanted to put that behind us and get on with the problems at hand.

 

[NoNukes]

Why will a shark not attack a lawyer?
Professional courtesy.

 

[Claudette]

Bush went to war on the faulty intelligence from every major power.

Congress approved the war using the same faulty intelligence.

If you think Bush needs to be tried then the entire Congress who voted for the war should be right there beside him.

Saddam had WMD's. He used them during his war with Iran and again against the Kurds.

Kinda hard to use something you don't have.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

it would set a horrible precedent as it would open the door to go after our elected representatives whenever we disagreed with anything they did.

That is the desired precedent.

So do you want Obama to go to jail for killing an American citizen with a drone strike? Open that door and that's where your precedent would lead.

Unless the wars finally come home.

 

[QuickHitCurepon]

If the American sheeple actually knew or found out what had transpired ............. the American sheeple would become so enraged, they would be calling for Nuclear annihilation of Iraq, Islam, and anyone & anything representing or even closely resembling that culture destroyed, as this was the intent of the Sandniggers to start a war of falsehood & gain allies.
As this information cannot be released ............. not even today, maybe 100 years from now or never.
The really fucked up thing about it is, the hard evidence is in plain sight and all around us, just let it go ............ seriously.

This is common knowledge. I learned that from the leader of one of the biggest cults in 1990 when she made a remark that was obviously somewhere along these lines, saying how, to translate, you would cringe at how really bad things are in Washington.

 

[Mac1958]

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I don't blame Powell for any of that, I got the impression he was (a) doing what he was told and (b) provided with lousy information.

As for Bush and Cheney, they clearly made the decision early on and were cherry-picking the "evidence". If anything supported their agenda they highlighted it, all vague or contrary evidence was ignored or downplayed -- a standard tactic of ideologues.

Is cherry-picking evidence a prosecutable lie? I dunno.

 

[Unkotare]

To quote my own book:

Don't bother. You can't really get the same effect if we can't see the little pop-up pictures every time a page is turned.



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[Katzndogz]

Liberal democrats tell a lie, then become so emotionally invested in the lie that they can never figure out what the facts really are. Bush didn't lie. At most, the largest stretch is that he was misinformed and made a decision based on that misinformation.

 

[Vox]

Because it was NOT a lie. It was a misinterpretation of the existing information to a degree, but WMD 1)were found in Iraq 2)are now working in Syria

 

[Caroljo]

It's nearly 5 years into a new administration and these goons are still walking free.

Can the Democrats please hold them accountable on trial?

You keep demanding that others do your research fro you. You asked the question. Why don't you be an adult and look for your own answer?

Because all I can find is sources and links that support my position.

I can' find any that do, other the the discovery of depleted and inert chemical weapons that we provided him.

Weren't they talking about MUSHROOM clouds?

Have any nukes been found?

You're not looking very hard......

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed
Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says - The New York Sun

This is a pretty interesting article....you should read the whole thing.

And there's a lot more out there that say the same thing...not sure why you could find them?

 

[The2ndAmendment]

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed
Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says - The New York Sun

When I saw this part of the article:

Democrats have made the absence of stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq a theme in their criticism of the Bush administration's decision to go to war in 2003. And President Bush himself has conceded much of the point; in a televised prime-time address to Americans last month, he said, "It is true that many nations believed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. But much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong."

Said Mr. Bush, "We did not find those weapons."

The discovery of the weapons in Syria could alter the American political debate on the Iraq war. And even the accusations that they are there could step up international pressure on the government in Damascus. That government, led by Bashar Assad,

I knew instantly that is was military industrial complex propaganda to invade Syria, Iraq just wasn't enough for them.

Neither Saddam nor Assad were enemies of the United States. Notice a pattern of attacking the wrong countries for these invisible WMD's?

The article present hearsay evidence at best.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

And there's a lot more out there that say the same thing...not sure why you could find them?

Again, it's because all of those articles contain nothing more than hearsay evidence.

 

[Wacky Quacky]

Because it was NOT a lie. It was a misinterpretation of the existing information to a degree, but WMD 1)were found in Iraq 2)are now working in Syria

The shelf life of the chemical weapons used in Syria disproves your whole theory.

 

[The2ndAmendment]

Because it was NOT a lie. It was a misinterpretation of the existing information to a degree, but WMD 1)were found in Iraq 2)are now working in Syria

The shelf life of the chemical weapons used in Syria disproves your whole theory.

Yep, that homemade grade of the gas was far too potent to be old gas.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

It's nearly 5 years into a new administration and these goons are still walking free.

Can the Democrats please hold them accountable on trial?

Oddly, you omit the "goons" from the nineties that were saying the same thing well before Bush ever became President, you know, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Sandy Berger, John Kerry, Madeline Albright.... etc., etc., etc.

 

[Jarhead]

Because it was not a lie.

If it were a "lie" please explain exactly how the Bush administration convinced the intelligence agencies of GB and Australia to lie so Bush and Cheney can play war games?

Or will all of you simply divert from my question and talk about how "France knew the truth and that's why they bowed out"

 

[deltex1]

It's nearly 5 years into a new administration and these goons are still walking free.

Can the Democrats please hold them accountable on trial?

The reason is that there were WMD in Iraq...you never knew that did ya?

How do you know what Bush didn't?

Bush acquiesced to the pre and post war story that protected all involved and at the same time did not lessen the goal of ridding the world of Saddam.