Will ex-President Bush face prosecution?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Not should he, will he.

[TheFarseer]

1. you're either kidding or delusional

[coloradodem2005]

2. He should but he will somehow get away with not doing so.

n/t

[theo4487]

3. he should

just for being a dumbass...but he wont

[leftofthedial]

4. nope. white-collar crime pays real good here in Murka

real good

[No2W2004]

5. In the words of Hunter S Thompson

He was, after all, the president.

[grytpype]

6. He will pardon himself before Jan. 20.

There will be a lot of last minute pardons coming out of this Pretendient of ours.

[coloradodem2005]

8. I don't think he can pardon himself.

He can resign a week early and let Cheney pardon him after he pardons Cheney.

[grytpype]

11. There's no restriction on who the President can pardon.

[JohnLocke]

14. Wrong.

Article 2, Section 2:
"...The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment..."
http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html

[Feanorcurufinwe]

16. It wouldn't be a case of impeachment.

Impeachment is just the process of being removed from office. If he is no longer President, that exception does not apply.

[grytpype]

20. Got me!

[malatesta1137]

7. You have a better chance to hit the jackpot tonight.

The Bush Crime Family is too powerful, it's NEVER going to happen. Can you imagine all the dity tricks James Baker III would pull to take the case straight to the criminals on the Supreme Court?

[leftistagitator]

9. If we didn't jail Nixon, we won't jail *

[Feanorcurufinwe]

15. Nixon appointed Ford, who pardoned him

Kerry won't be pardoning Bush.

[yankeeinlouisiana]

10. Probably not.

It will be for ""the good of the country". "Now is the time for healing...Need to move forward, yada, yada, yada"

:eyes:

[Walt Starr]

12. Kerry wouldn;'t even consider it, believe me

Politicains are politicians. It would serve no purpose to prosecute Bush and could damage Kerry politically, ergo, Kerry won't touch prosecution with a ten foot pole.

[AntiCoup2K4]

13. Let's see... Grandpa funded Hitler. Daddy created Al Qaeda....

...did either of them go to prison??

The Bushes are easily the most corrupt family to ever be involved in politics - at least in this country. But not even little known Neil, the savings and loan thief, ever did a day of jail time. And despite the myths of Kerry being the "one man crusader against the Bush Criminal Empire" that his supporters like to exaggerate, nothing has happenned to them yet, and nothing will with Kerry in the White House. At least not as long as the corporatist neocon DLC is involved.

[blm]

17. You miss the greater point. Kerry was the only one who TRIED as hard as

he could to expose the corruption of the Reagan and Bush administration. He had LITTLE help and in fact, was hampered by some Dems who would seek to distract from Kerry's work and often protected and even supported the illegal covert actions of those crooks. Dirty song lyrics, anyone?

You want to blame Kerry, yet if it wasn't FOR Kerry's years of investigating and diligence against all odds, YOU wouldn't know HALF of what you know about the BFEE or their actions of the last 20 years.

[tom_paine]

18. You know how many people would be killed if that got even close to being

a reality?!?

Why, we'd have a veritable "rash" of "suicides" "terrorist attacks" and "mysterious poisonous letters" beforeit even got even close.

Bushevik Monsters play for keeps, just like Granpda Prescott Bush's German Business Partners in the 1930s.

[Texican]

19. Mentally Incompetent

To paraphrase Ann Richards: He can't help it. He was born with his head up his butt.