Throughout history there have been leaders who gained reputations as notorious tortures and killers; Ivan the Terrible, Vlad the Impaler, Karimov the Boiler, friend of George W. Bush, the Texecutioner. Not only is Bush a merciless executioner, but there is more than enough evidence to send him and his entire administration to The Hague to face war crimes charges.
No American president in history has ever been charged with war crimes. In March of 2005, The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI) found Bush guilty of genocide for the use of "devastating" economic sanctions. Bush was also found guilty of 13 counts of war crimes for attacks against civilians and the use of indiscriminate weapons, such as; cluster bombs, depleted uranium, nerve gas, mustard gas, burning chemicals, and napalm.
When he was a kid, George W. Bush enjoyed stuffing firecrackers into frogs, and throwing them into the air, and watching them blow up, and he liked shooting small animals repeatedly with a BB gun, to see them die. It’s a commonly accepted fact that cruelty to animals is a precursor to later criminal violence. Jeffrey Dahmer, the infamous American cannibal, also tortured animals to death. We can now see that boy George's lack of empathy and his sadistic tendencies were not simply a childhood faze, but rather, a personality trait still present in the man.
As governor of Texas Bush became known as the Texecutioner for carrying out 152 executions in 5 years, more than any other governor in American history. Recently he has killed over 100,000 men women and children in Iraq, with nearly 1,000,000 wounded. The illustrious leader of the republican Christian right says he talks with god, and professes to be a compassionate conservative, but he always chooses war and death over diplomacy and peace. It seems that Bush the so-called Christian, has forgotten the 6th Commandment: 'Thou shall not kill'.
And just a few days ago the neocon regime made history again. In fact all eyes are on America and George W. Bush at this moment as never before. Forget about Nazi Germany. For the past fifty years the German people have carried the mantle of genocide and mass murder on their shoulders, but that time has passed. They may now hold their heads high because America has taken the mantle of murder and genocide from them and become the new pariah state.
Bush has publicly declared in a way that Caligula and Hitler never dared to, that he and his gang have the right to torture people, literally to death, as has occurred on many occasions. Bush made it clear that he will veto a $435 billion Pentagon appropriations bill because it restricts his ability to abuse prisoners in the nebulas Orwellian, "never ending war on terror". The bill, which forbids the "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment" of prisoners in US custody, was passed by an overwhelming 90 to 9 majority in the Senate. It was the first and the largest rejection of the Bush regime's agenda of war, death, torture, blood, and profit, in nearly 5 years.
Most of humanity wants to see the American people take back their country and their government and boot the Bush dictatorship out on it’s ear. Fifty percent of The American people, particularly those with Bush stickers on their cars, need to wake up and look around and smell the fresh air of freedom. The battle for the soul of America is heating up. Who will win? Will it be the violent corporate military industrialist gang who only knows how to torture and enslave humanity and profit from war and death, or will it be the last vestiges of a tattered government, which does to some degree, still represent the will of the people?
The American Constitution and Bill of Rights were valid and meaningful documents, which made America a great country and gave hope to oppressed peoples throughout the world. Under this gang of tortures and warmongers, those documents have become almost meaningless.
Now is the time for the American people to stand up to this handful of megalomaniacs and take back their country. To simply profess to be a great people and a free people and a moral people are only empty platitudes. The world is watching the American people and wondering if they are sheep to be lead to slaughter others and to be slaughtered themselves, or are they the 'free and the brave' that they claim to be.
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