What Court Should Try Bush and Cheney? 
Stanley O. Buckmaster of Bellingham, Washington minced no words in his letter published in the August 10 Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
"Having survived an unjustified war and more than four years of occupation, I could not view any insurgent organization as just anything except `freedom fighters', just as we classified the French underground during world war Two when it resisted the German occupation of their country. I am neither opposed to nor in favor of impeaching George Bush but I would like very much to see him tried as a war criminal (which he obviously is)."
David P. Barash, Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington, in a column appearing in the Seattle Times August 10, makes some interesting observations regarding why Congress has failed to call a halt to Bush's Iraq War. He puts it this way:
Barash then quotes film star Katharine Hepburn's unforgettable line from the film The African Queen:
"Nature is what we were put on earth to rise above." Barash then observes, "It may be asking too much for Bush to rise above the natural human tendency to affirm the virtues of peace, while secretly adoring war."
How truly and accurately this psychological evaluation summarizes George Bush. Remember Bush's bravado comment as the first bombs killed people in Iraq when that initial shock and awe attack was launched on Baghdad?
Bush then exclaimed, "Feels good!"
Lance Dickie, Seattle Times editorial columnist, in that newspaper's August 10 edition wrote about the scary assault on the civil liberties of Americans:
"As historians tally the incompetence, profligacy and lawless opacity of the Bush Administration, a shorthand is already emerging: Katrina, Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, signing statements and epic debt. Each reference speaks volumes."
What is George Bush doing amidst this disastrous debacle of his tarnished Administration? He's gone fishing with Father Bush while the Congress takes a vacation as U.S. soldiers continue to die and Iraq's government also vacations.
Death in Iraq never takes a vacation.
Every member of Congress who voted for the Iraq War should be compelled to tell the American people in 500 words or less what U.S. service personnel died for in going to war against the Geneva Convention rules of war prohibiting any nation from launching a war against another nation that never attacked it or was imminently poised to attack another nation.
KEYWORDS: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Bush and Cheney as Potential War Criminals
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