Bush and Cheney Should be Arrested for War Crimes

Re: "Reality in bloom," from the March 30th edition of the Augusta Chronicle editorial page.

Michael Ryan's response to left wing criticism of conservative violence and threats in the wake of the passage of the health care law seems to be that radical liberals were even worse when Bush was president.

This seems a dubious claim to me. Mr. Ryan does produce some good examples of radical leftist protestors carrying signs advocating the assassination of Bush. BTW, I found all of these examples on a blog. Mr. Ryan never gave a source. I suspect he lifted these examples from this source but was ashamed to say he got them from a blog. Nevertheless, I accept these examples.

Mr. Ryan, however, expressed outrage that some liberals think Bush and Cheney should be arrested for combatting terrorism. Here, he completely mischaracterizes the argument. No one is saying Bush and Cheney should be prosecuted for conducting a war on terrorist. But there is a plausible case to be made that they committed hundreds of war crimes.

A book written by Michael Haas entitled George W. Bush, war criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 war crimes makes a compelling case that the Bush administration is guilty of numerous war crimes, including the worst of all--telling lies in order to get this country in an unnecessary war of aggression against Iraq.

Mr. Ryan finishes this column with a pack of lies about what President Obama. Obama never suggested we quit in our war against terror. He did promise to withdraw troops from Iraq, and they are scheduled to withdraw.

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Letters to the editor this week prove that Augusta has its share of imbeciles.

A.C. Forgay told a bunch of anti-semitic lies about Israel which I debunked on the AC forum.

Mary Beth Seaha of Aiken compared the passage of the health care reform law with Marxist communism, even though most of the reform is based on conservative republican ideas. The only reason republicans opposed it now is because democrats were for it.

Kevin Palmer made the ridiculous claim that America is a Christian nation.

Bill Heaton wants to take our country back. I suppose when his side loses elections, the U.S. is not his country any more.

Arlene Candy thinks our country died, simply because poor people will now be able to get necessary health care.

Henry James fantasizes that republicans can legislatively overturn health care.

Imbeciles, all of them.