Bush’s America, ruination and desolation - International Social/Political

A new economic paradigm based on sound principles – rather than placing a value on debt and allowing it to be traded using the 'bigger idiot than me' formula -- is required. Every first year economics student learns the value of distributed wealth; investing in infrastructure, production, labour/skills, which inturn increases savings allowing investments, which in turn boosts production and consumption in a balanced upward steady cycle of GROWTH – as is witnessed in China and other REGULATED economies. Real value is measured in real products and the means, labour/skills, to create those products and by the amount that is returned into the system as GROWTH.

Credit based systems diametrically oppose this model. However, credit is necessary but only under certain strict conditions. It must always be supported by real translatable wealth. Any deviation from sound economic principles results in failure, as is the case with the ‘free;’ unregulated or laissez-faire market now in its death throes.

Over a year ago we advised everyone to withdraw from a dying, corrupt and manipulated market place and invest in Real value, which could be managed directly -- as opposed to allowing market ‘managers’ to gamble with your hard-earned funds and superannuation.

[The market today puts the world’s most famous and enduring Casinos to shame as a location for speculative (gambling) activity. That was never its purpose but Friedmanism had nowhere to go but to the pockets of greedy insiders, scammers and dealers – the ‘free market’ simply means giving the keys of the treasure room to thieves!]

Bush, as the RESPONSIBLE party, has no alternative but to continue LYING, deceiving and printing more toilet-paper money in a futile attempt to save the situation; however, his actions are only delaying the inevitable.

Bush’s ‘remedies’ only DELAY INEVITABLE COLLAPSE! Bush has spent the nation into the grave and allowed scam artists to fog, dupe and rob average taxpayers in the process. Does this man literally have to shit in your mouths before you mobilise and converge on the Capital demanding his arrest for murder? [Deaths resulting from an illegal invasion are treated as murder.] Bush cannot be arrested for being an economic vandal and dunce!

The American economy is flat-lining and Bush continues to talk it up (see link); however, despite all his attempts to talk a corpse back to life, the corpse is fast losing its remaining body heat! Furthermore, he continues to spend like a maniac, the devil may care but George does not!

Bush clearly has no regard for the nation, its founding principles or the people he is supposed to SERVE!

Bush made it plain that he prefers the company of those he once referred to as the ‘have mores;’ precisely those scurrilous individuals that have raped and ruined the nation.

In the recent past the American people have converged on the Capital in times of national crisis. On each occasion the people have been successful in removing the blight from office and correcting the course of the nation. Today’s crises are far more critical and urgent than those of the past; it is clear that nothing but the people will effect REAL CHANGE in the United States. Do not be beguiled, only the people have been successful in EFFECTING REAL CHANGE. Pretenders today only emphasise that fact!

We are One.

President Bush “beyond all reasonable doubt” is responsible for all the murders of American troops killed in Iraq and could be prosecuted by any of 140 Federal and State legal authorities, famed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi says.

Bugliosi said the president is guilty of “the most serious crime ever committed in American history…knowingly and deliberately taking this country to war in Iraq under false pretenses,” killing 4,000 GIs, seriously wounding 30,000 more, and killing 100,000 Iraqis in the process.

While a federal prosecution by the U.S. Attorney General in Washington, or any of the 93 U.S. attorneys throughout the country “would be the easiest procedure,” Bugliosi says, any of the 50 State attorneys-general also “could bring a murder charge against Bush for any soldiers from that state…who lost their lives fighting Bush’s war.”

Writing in “The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder”(Vanguard Press), Bugliosi says Bush’s lies to the public constituted “overt acts” and their broadcast nationally via the media are a basis for prosecution in every state. Charges could include murder as well as conspiracy to commit murder, the veteran prosecutor said.

In his career in the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, Bugliosi successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder trials without a single loss, according to a biographical sketch in the book. His most famous trial, the Charles Manson murder case, became the basis of his classic, “Helter Skelter,” said to be “the biggest selling true-crime book in publishing history.”

“Bush and his gang of criminals were constantly telling Americans that Hussein constituted an imminent threat to the security of this country, but they kept the truth from the American people that their CIA was telling them the exact opposite, that Hussein and Iraq were not an imminent threat to this country,” Bugliosi writes.

In his speech of October 7, 2002, in Cincinnati, Bush said “The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gasses and atomic weapons…” even though a CIA report dated October 1 gave Bush notice that “the CIA did not consider Hussein an imminent threat to this nation,” Bugliosi pointed out.

As Bush did not act in self-defense, he did so with “a criminal state of mind,” with “criminal intent,” Bugliosi says, thus, “every killing of an American soldier that took place during Bush’s war was an ‘unlawful killing’ and murder.”

Bugliosi explains that a person is guilty of a crime under the theory of aiding and abetting if he instigates an act that leads to a crime. Bush’s invasion brought into existence the Iraqi opposition and his action caused Iraqis to kill American soldiers…” Besides, unless Bush intended to have a war without casualties, “which is nonsensical on its face,” Bugliosi says, “he did, in fact, specifically intend to have American soldiers killed.”

“In my opinion,” Bugliosi continues, “there certainly is more than enough evidence against Bush to justify bringing him to trial and letting an American jury decide whether or not he is guilty of murder, and if so, what the appropriate punishment should be.” Based on the evidence the author spreads out over 344 pages, he feels convinced “a competent prosecutor could convict Bush of murder.”

Bugliosi points out that he convicted Charles Manson of the seven Tate-La Bianca murders even though Manson did not participate in any of the killings, nor was he present at the time. He was able to secure Manson’s conviction, he noted, because of the “vicarious liability rule of conspiracy, which provides that each member of a conspiracy is criminally responsible for all crimes committed by his coconspirators or innocent agents of the conspirators to further the object of the conspiracy.”

Among the Iraq war conspirators Bugliosi identified are Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Bugliosi said he knew less about former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s culpability but that a prosecutor could make that determination by obtaining documents and grand jury testimony from key people. The same procedure could also be followed in the case of former White House advisor Karl Rove, the attorney wrote.

Bugliosi charged Bush “is a grotesque anomaly and aberration. No president has ever done what he did and it is not likely this nation will see a president do what Bush did for centuries to come, if ever. At least we know that in the previous three centuries there was no one like this monstrous individual.”

“I would be more than happy, if requested,” Bugliosi continued, “to consult with any prosecutor who decides to prosecute Bush in the preparation of additional cross-examination questions for him to face on the witness stand.”

© 2008 Sherwood Ross, Global Research

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, asserting executive privilege, has rejected Congress' request for documents on FBI interviews with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from a probe to find who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

The Bush administration said on Wednesday that turning over such records would violate the president's rights to counsel from his staff.

In a letter to the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Keith Nelson wrote, "The attorney general has requested that the president assert executive privilege with respect to these documents and the president has done so."

The letter was delivered on the same day the committee was scheduled to vote on a possible contempt resolution against Attorney General Michael Mukasey for failing to provide the requested information.

Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the committee, called the executive privilege claim "ludicrous," but postponed committee action against Mukasey, saying lawmakers needed time to review Bush's claim.

In 2003, as the Bush administration was preparing for war with Iraq, media reports surfaced discussing Wilson's work at the CIA. She is married to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who at the time accused the Bush administration of tailoring intelligence information to justify the Iraq war.

Following the federal probe into the matter, Cheney aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted on obstruction and perjury charges. Bush subsequently commuted Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.

Waxman said the probe did not get to the bottom of Cheney's possible role in the leak, prompting his committee to seek the FBI documents.

"There is a key document that could explain what the vice president knew and what he did," Waxman said, referring to Libby's statement to the FBI that it was "possible" Cheney instructed him to blow Wilson's CIA undercover identity.

Waxman also noted that a letter from Mukasey to Bush dated Wednesday regarding the executive privilege stance "also raises questions about the president's involvement ... the documents being withheld summarize conversations held directly with the president."

Both Mukasey and Nelson wrote that the White House has attempted to accommodate Waxman's probe of the scandal by making available some FBI reports of interviews with senior White House staff and agency officials.

"We are not prepared to make the same accommodation for reports of interviews with the president and the vice president," Nelson said.

(Editing by David Alexander and Vicki Allen)

© 2008 Thomson Reuters

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