What will happen to GWB after he is gone as POTUS?

[Check12]

Will he be held accountable for his actions?

Will he end up an elder statesman like all other former presidents?

Will he be all chummy with Bill Clinton?

Will he be a pundit on fox news?

Will he pardon himself?

I just can't handle the thought that he will skate for his crimes.

[rwenos]

1. IF He Leaves

He will spend the rest of his life with his cronies, on the ranch and at Kennebunkport. When his dad dies, he will be on tv again, and we can all remember the churning in our stomachs.

He will dine at the Petroleum Club in Houston and go to baseball games. He will never go to church except for public relations appearances.

The more interesting question to me is how long it will take Pickles to divorce him, assuming he actually leaves office on 1/20/2009.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. If it's up to me, He will be tried in the Hague

and strung up as the mass murderer that he is.

[fuzzyball]

9. Realistically that will never happen...Hague does not have

the military power to actually enforce its judgements.
Laws are only as good as the enforcement. Unless powers
greater than United States get behind any judgements at
the Hague court, you can forget shrub ever spending time
behind bars. And I don't see the will in the real military
powers (Russia, China, UK) to have the combined will to
confront US military. Do you?

[Check12]

11. You may be right but..

The American people could tutm him over to them. If only to save their own asses.

[tuvor]

3. He's a figurehead. I'm more worried about what'll happen to the USA.

Not so sure suspension of habeus corpus is the end of it.

[Phredicles]

4. Can I have "living in Paraguay by March '09" in the pool?

Plus "Extradited back to US Oct. '09"

Add "Deported to The Hague to stand trial Dec. '09"

And finally, "Begins serving 700,000 life sentences, meets his new room-mate, Osama bin Laden, who was captured 3 weeks after the Gore Administration took office, June 2010."

[Erika]

5. I can't stand the thought at looking at him 1 day more than

necessary. I could care less what happens to him as long as his smirky chickenhawk elitist face is gone. Hopefully for all time.

[rwenos]

6. From Your Computer to God's Ears! nt

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. He will need the largest SS detail of any former President, forever...

He will never be able to walk the streets again- I wonder if he realizes that ?
The Same goes for Cheney...
I'm sure they will have their gated compounds with all the brush anyone could want to clear, and all the quail anyone could want to shoot...
But they will NEVER be able to hold a book signing like Clinton, or build a home for the poor like Carter- not that they would want to...but at least it's some small consolation for the rest of us...
Of course, I would prefer that they spend the rest of their days in prison, but I can dream, can't I?

[Check12]

8. You are right!

It does give me some solace that he will be tried and convicted in the court of public opinion.
An Karl Rove will be remembered as a coniving thug, not a political genius.

[Erika]

13. Clinton and Carter are beloved. As is Ford.

They are welcomed wherever they go, regardless of community or country. W will be a prisoner of his own making because of his acts against humanity. He ignored the advice of his father, and the world, as a willful child. Our troops and the Iraqis are paying the price for his childish willfulness. That will neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

[Erika]

17. I don't know if W/Cheney have the smarts to know

they will be held personally responsible for our unnecessary deaths in their war of choice. I'm sure they will find out. They will never be honored as long as they live unless it's by the GOP extremists.

[orleans]

10. let's see...he'll probably do several things....

become a public drunk

get busted for coke

commit suicide

the end.

so how we'll history judge him? why the hell should he care? he'll be dead. remember?



(the last part, ala woodward book, not the current one--paraphrasing the fuckhead himself who did say: "we'll all be dead")

[Erika]

14. and the sooner the better n/t

[wtmusic]

12. To the Hague

I pray nightly to FSM.

[WCGreen]

15. A deep slide into oblivion.....

[niyad]

16. he, and all the rest of this maladministration, should be spending

the rest of their miserable, worthless, murderous lives in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity, if there is any real justice in this world. (oh, and leprosy, or AIDS, or that lovely flesh-eating virus, or something similar, would be a nice added fillip)

[Erika]

18. The little 13 year old boy who had his limbs blown off

in W's shock and awe on an innocent populace. I will never get that image out of my mind. It haunts me. We should have done something to stop W.

[tomreedtoon]

19. Skip the vengeance; I just want him out of office!

I don't want to hear from Bush again. I want him to retire to clear brush on his ranch. Hell, I'll buy him some more brush for him to clear if it'll keep him busy. He can even smoke the brush if he wants, I don't care.

In the near-impossible instance that there will be a Democratic House or Senate, they will have a lot more on their hands than wreaking vengeance that so many people here seem to want.

Look, guys, in a sense, we're all rape victims. If we give in to a desire for vengeance or retribution that we know we'll never get, we essentially empower the rapists and give them dominion over our lives. Let's just get them out of our lives and move forward from there.

[Check12]

21. A noble stance to be sure, however I think that..

the mothers and fathers of those young men and women who are now dead, deserve more then just letting bygones be bygones.
There has to be accountability here!

[tomreedtoon]

25. I have NEVER been noble! This is practicality.

If you truly want Bush and his cronies gone, just go for that. Removing their power will destroy them. Anything beyond that is vengeance, the two-edged sword that rightfully only belongs to the Lord, because only God can survive the cuts it causes Him as He wields it. There should be no more blood on any more human's hands, certainly not the hands of people with a righteous cause (those of us who want to dump Bush). Let God's hands get all bloody, the way they're supposed to be.

[ThoughtCriminal]

20. See "Richard Nixon"

Who was barely visible after his resignation. Bush will occasionally appear at closed GOP fund-raisers, on FOX and have an auto-biography ghost-written.

Either that or living in Saudi Arabia and fighting extradition.

[carpetbagger]

22. He'll cash in.

Except for his father's inheritence, he's not a terrifically rich man. I think his horoscope says "You will travel to many oil-rich countries".

[Greyhound]

26. He conned the dimwits in Midland TX out of $7Million, so now he

has Money of his own. Sorry. ;(

[TheMadMonk]

23. If there's any "poetic" justice in the world.

He'lll be punt in charge of managing his backer's money and history will repeat itself.

[Dulcinea]

24. Back to the obscurity he so richly deserves.

He'll sell the faux pig farm & shack up in a gated community with his girlfriend Condi after Laura decides she's had enough.

[jenmito]

27. He'll probably go on speaking tours,

Lecturing college audiences on how to be a success in life, teaching students about life, etc. :sarcasm: