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By BART GARZON
Published: July 4th, 2009
The former President appeared perturbed by his own charges against him. (GAVIN
BELLOWS/BOSTON GLOBE)
Source: New York Times/CBS News poll
“In this case, high treason has been interpreted to include pursuing
an illegal and devastating war that has cost hundreds of billions of
dollars and the lives of over 4,000 Americans and perhaps a million
Iraqis, for essentially insane ends,” said Vincent Bugliosi, a former
federal prosecutor whom Feingold named lead special prosecutor in
the case. “In effect, the Iraq War amounted to a war against America,”
added Bugliosi, who is also the author of the book, The Prosecution of
George Bush for Murder.
“The death and economic collapse that resulted has been completely
devastating to our nation and, most of all, to me,” read Mr. Bush’s
indictment. “I want to make amends, and it is for this reason that I
am requesting that I be indicted for high treason. I thank the court for
allowing me to right my grave wrongs. Bring it on!”
“We don’t want to be too cynical about Mr. Bush’s motives,” said a
spokesperson for AfterDowningStreet.org, one of the main groups
that had been pursuing Mr. Bush’s indictment. “But even if it doesn’t
get moved to the I.C.C., requesting his own conviction is so unusual it
could move some jurors, or even help with an insanity plea.”
The treason charge does not address compensation for the hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis killed in the war. It is expected that surviving
family members of fallen American soldiers will file thousands of civil
lawsuits alleging wrongful death.