I was listening to The Mike Malloy Show last night (XM Radio channel 167) on my way home from work. While I don’t support a lot of what the man says, I was very interested by a guest he had on the show. It seems Vincent Bugliosi, an American lawyer and writer.
Bugliosi was introducing a book he recently wrote titled The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (2008, Perseus Books) which details the lawyers grounds for legally charging Bush for murder. He presents several interesting facts I hadn’t heard before. First, Bugliosi says that before unveiling the idea of war to the American public, Bush considered pressuring Saddam Hussein into attacking the US. This really strikes me as insane. If true, this means that Bush wanted Iraq to attack the States militarily, and as there is no way Saddam could have sent troops in any reasonable number, it tells us he wanted Iraq to be creative. That, to me, is alarming.
In another revelation, Bugliosi claims that Bush altered a document known as the “White Paper” to make Saddam seem more dangerous to America than he really was. The original draft of this statement, issued as a National Intelligence Estimate , stated that while Iraq may have had WMD’s, Saddam wouldn’t use them except in self defense. Less than a week after that document was released (and the altered by Bush), the President gave a speech which said that Iraq was willing to attack America with a stockpile of WMD’s at any time.
Now I’m not a fan of extremists, and thus I’m not a fan of Bugliosi trying Bush for the murder of 4,000 US troops or the roughly 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed in our Middle Eastern misadventure. However, if Clinton was impeached for sleeping around, I think Bush could be ushered out of office over this.
I hope to get a copy of this book soon, and I strongly encourage you to look into these allegations yourself.
