Although perhaps billions of harsh, condemnatory words have been said and written about George Bush in the last seven years (none of which, by the way, he could possibly care less about), no one has done anything against George Bush. No impeachment, not even an investigation of him. But I’ve put together a case against Bush that could result in his being prosecuted for first degree murder in an American courtroom. I have set forth the legal architecture for the case against Bush, detailing the overwhelming evidence of his guilt and establishing the jurisdiction to prosecute him.

At this moment, Bush has temporary immunity; he can not be prosecuted while he is still in office. But the US constitution is very clear that once he leaves office, he can be prosecuted for any crimes he committed while he was President. And there’s no statute of limitations for the crime of murder.

Exhibit A: The White Paper

Bush started talking about Hussein and Iraq for the first time in a speech to the nation on October 7, 2002 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He told the American people that Hussein was a great danger to our nation, either by Hussein attacking us with weapons of mass destruction, or by giving these weapons to some terrorist group to attack us. He said this attack could happen “on any given day,” meaning the threat was imminent.

But October 1, 2002, just six days earlier, the CIA sent Bush its 2002 national intelligence estimate, a classified top secret report that represented the consensus opinion of all 16 US intelligence agencies on the issue of whether or not Hussein was an imminent threat.

On page eight of that 91-page report, it unequivocally said that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the security of this country. It said he would only be a threat to us if he feared America was about to attack him; in other words, Hussein would only be a threat if he was forced to fight in self defense.

So we know – not think, but know – that when Bush told the nation on the evening of October 7, 2002, that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, he was telling millions of unsuspecting Americans the exact opposite of what his own CIA was telling him.

It gets worse. On October 4, 2002, just three days after receiving the classified report, Bush and his people had the CIA issue an unclassified 25-page summary version of the classified report. They released this unclassified version to Congress and the American people, and this came to be known as the White Paper.

In the White Paper that was shown to Congress and the American people, the conclusion of US intelligence that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the security of this country was completely deleted; every single one of these all-important words was taken out.

This alone shows Bush took this nation to war on a terrible lie. Therefore, all the terrible killings of American soldiers in Iraq were unlawful killings: murder.

Exhibit B: The Manning Memo

On January 31, 2003, George Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair had a meeting in the Oval Office with six of their top aids, one of which was Blair’s chief foreign policy advisor David Manning. After the meeting, Manning prepared a five-page memo stamped “extremely sensitive” in which he summarized what was said at the meeting.

Manning wrote that Bush and Blair expressed their doubts that any weapons of mass destruction would ever be found in Iraq. He also writes that Bush was so upset and worried about this fact that he talked about ways to “provoke a confrontation” with Hussein, one of which was to fly U2 reconnaissance aircraft over Iraq falsely painted in United Nations colors. Bush said that if Hussein fired on these aircraft, it would be a violation of UN resolutions and a justification for going to war.

Here we have Bush telling the American people – telling the world – that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of this country, but behind closed doors, he is talking about how to provoke Hussein into a war. There is no answer to the Manning memo except guilt.

Behavior Unbecoming Of A President

George W. Bush has enjoyed himself throughout the entire war. I’m talking about running, bicycling, joking with friends, slapping backs, dancing and swiveling his hips like Elvis to blaring music, and almost always appearing to be in the very best of good spirits.

Don’t take my word for this: George Bush himself has had no hesitancy at all in saying this over and over again. As I give you these quotes, imagine in your wildest dreams Roosevelt, Truman, LBJ or Nixon saying things like this during a time of war:

“Laura and I are having the time of our lives.”

“I’m in a great mood.”

“It’s a perfect day.”

“I’m feeling pretty good about life.”

Here’s a guy who has cost this nation over $1 trillion in this war with no end in sight, who has virtually destroyed the entire nation of Iraq and who has put over 100,000 precious human beings into their cold graves. And he says he’s feeling pretty good about life? Even if George Bush was only guilty of making an innocent mistake in taking this nation to war, what kind of monstrous individual could be happy with his life in the midst of all the death, horror and suffering that he has caused?

Bugliosi Versus George W. Bush: Help Wanted

I am no longer with the District Attorney’s Office, so I have no authority to bring this case forward myself. I am now a private citizen and no longer in law enforcement, so I am sending a cover letter and a copy of my book to each of the 50 Attorney Generals in America, asking them to read the book. If they agree that the evidence of Bush’s guilt is clear and there is jurisdiction, I’m going to ask them to proceed criminally against Bush.

On a federal level, there is only one prosecutor: the Attorney General of the United States. But on a state level, I’ve established jurisdiction for the Attorney General in each of the 50 states, plus approximately 950 District Attorneys in counties within those states, to prosecute George Bush for the murder of any soldier from their state or county who died fighting Bush’s war in Iraq.

We’re talking about approximately 1,000 prosecutors who could take this case, and with all the very powerful evidence of guilt that I’ve presented, it’s not unreasonable to believe that there’s at least one prosecutor out there who is courageous enough to say, ‘This is the United States of America, and in America, no man is above the law.’

I will also offer my services in any way that prosecutor sees fit, from being a consultant all the way up to being appointed a special prosecutor. I have 21 murder convictions without a loss – I would love nothing more than to prosecute George Bush for murder.

In A Private, Quiet Moment

George Bush lives in a cocoon, but by osmosis or some other way, there’s a high likelihood that he will find out about this book and my case against him. I can give you a 100 per cent guarantee that if he does find out about it, the people around him are going to tell him, ‘Don’t worry about it; our legal department has already checked this book out and there’s absolutely no merit to it.’ They have to tell him that.

But later, in a private, quiet moment, I’m quite sure that he’s going to realize I’m not some nut off the street and wonder if there’s any merit to my case. And when he leaves office and is enjoying life in Crawford, Texas, I want to put the thought in his mind that at any moment, some aid may tap him on the shoulder and say, ‘Mr. President, there’s this prosecutor up in Fargo, North Dakota who’s charged you with murder and we’re due up in Fargo this coming Monday at 9 a.m. for your arraignment.’

I am going after George Bush. And I’m not going to be satisfied until I see him in an American courtroom being prosecuted for first degree murder. Let’s let an American jury decide whether he’s guilty or not guilty of murder and if they convict him, what the appropriate punishment will be: the death penalty, life imprisonment or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

If justice means anything in America, and if we’re not going to forget about these 4,000 young American soldiers who came back from Bush’s war in a box or a jar of ashes, I say we have no choice but to bring murder charges against the son of privilege from Crawford, Texas.

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The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder, Vanguard Press, 2008.