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jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
9. GWB shouldn't be tried for wrongful incompetence
Sat Nov 21, 2015, 11:36 PM
Nov 2015

He should be tried, but for any one of these things...

Accounting fraud: Bush ran the Iraq and Afghan wars off-budget to disguise the true monetary cost of those misadventures. The GOP LOVES to complain about how much Obama "increased the deficit" in his first year in office. The truth is a little too subtle for them: Obama put the wars back in the budget.

Perjury, for all the lies he and his staff told to get the Iraq war approved.

4,425 counts of murder - one for each KIA from the Iraq war. As we saw in the Kelly Gissendaner case, you don't have to actually kill someone to be charged with it, or executed for it.

2,372 counts of murder - one for each KIA from Afghanistan.

32,223 counts of aggravated assault - the Iraq WIA total.

20,071 counts of aggravated assault - the Afghanistan WIA total.

Throw on a bunch of Hurricane Katrina-related charges, some financial malfeasance stuff involving Halliburton, failure to prevent his wife from making dresses out of the White House curtains...

The GOP is full of idiots Gothmog Nov 2015 #1
Yep atreides1 Nov 2015 #7
Is there anything they don't want him to resign over? Egnever Nov 2015 #2
Nope Proud Liberal Dem Nov 2015 #19
This is what they did to Bush jr, demand he resign over his invasion of Iraq so it is only fair to Thinkingabout Nov 2015 #3
They want him to resign because they know impeachment will fail. malthaussen Nov 2015 #4
If that were so, GW should be tried for wrongful incompetence Yorktown Nov 2015 #5
GWB shouldn't be tried for wrongful incompetence jmowreader Nov 2015 #9
OK, incompetence and perjury. Yorktown Nov 2015 #10
There needs to be some justice for the troops he killed jmowreader Nov 2015 #12
I think a public humiliation would be enough Yorktown Nov 2015 #13
GOP thinks Obama should resign over toast. He butters the wrong side uppityperson Nov 2015 #6
Does Obama really butter bread the wrong side? Yorktown Nov 2015 #11
GOP thinks Obama ought to resign over everything. longship Nov 2015 #8
LOL. They also think he should resign for being a Kenyan Muslim Socialist L. Coyote Nov 2015 #14
FUCK THEM. nt Rex Nov 2015 #15
It's kind of refreshing to see them moving on from Benghazi. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #16
GOP thinks Obama should resign over nose piercings. sibelian Nov 2015 #17
They smell blood and political advantage. kentuck Nov 2015 #18
Obama can say whatever he wants when he's out of office. The keep forgetting that. lindysalsagal Nov 2015 #20
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