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| The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder | 
 enlarge | Author: Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher: Vanguard Press
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 Bush is Pure Evil May 31, 2008
115 out of 134 found this review helpful
I doubt if those who gave this book one star actually read the book. But I read it. The opening chapters show a side of Bush that sickened me. Bugliosi clearly shows, with an abundance of evidence, that Bush really doesn't give a damn about our soldiers in Iraq, and that Bush spends ZERO time trying to get this conflict resolved. Bush is lazy, pure and simple. I doubt if Bush will ever spend one day in court being tried for murder, after he leaves office (if he leaves !). But this book is a beautifully written indictment an evil man. If nothing else, at least historians have another book to use to judge the Bush presidency in years to come.
A book Profoundly convincing and important June 8, 2008
91 out of 108 found this review helpful
This book is profoundly important.
The thesis is
1. There was no connection between Al Quaeda and Iraq
2. There were no WMD in Iraq
3. The evidence was overwhelming on points 1 and 2 and known to Bush before the war.
4. Bush took the country to war on points 1 and 2 inspite of the evidence, and he brazenly lied to gain support for the war.
The disconnect between Al Quaeda and Iraq was so great that the CIA, even after being pressured by the Bush administration to find a link, could not do so. (Notice the CIA was pressured to find a link and not to find the truth). The final CIA reports indicated to Bush there was no credible evidence Iraq was involved with Al Quaeda and/or that Iraq had any involvement in 911.
But Bush was not deterred. He then focused on WMD as the reason America had to urgently attack Iraq. But Bush had no evidence that Iraq had WMD or that America was in imminent danger of being attacked. In fact, Bush confided to Tony Blair that he was worried Hans Blix and his team would not find any WMD in Iraq. Bush, fearing he would lose his pretext for war, ordered Hans Blix and his team of inspectors out of Iraq.
Bush even entertained the idea of dispensing with the WMD pretext and instead devise a plan to provoke Saddam into war by flying an American plane camouflaged in UN insignia over Iraq. But in the end, Bush decided to attack without provocation. He would not allow anymore time for inspections and not allow anymore time for debate. He wanted to attack Iraq ASAP.
Vincent is very methodical. The book has the same sense of outrage that Bugliosi displayed in his definitive OJ Simpson book 'Outrage.'
Even though Bugliosi is a renound prosecutor and even though he backed up his provocative book with facts and references, the press continues to ignore this important book. Instead the press continues to focus on important stories like Britany Spears' drinking habits or who will win the American Idol competition. Vincent will get the same treatment Ron Paul (a staunch antiwar Republican candidate who was highly critical of Bush's foreign policy) got from the press.
You see the American mainstream press is not a free press, they are a controlled press and they were, and are, very much in favor of this war.
The one weakness of Vincent's book is that it gave no motive for Bush's lie. Bugliosi asserted he didn't need to prove motive only that Bush did in fact lie. True, but motive is an important component in proving a crime. I can think of a very plausible motive. Read the book "The Israel Lobby And U.S. Foreign Policy" by Mearsheimer and Walt to better understand the influence AIPAC has on our foreign policy. I can't help but think Bush was dominated by Neocon advisors that were telling him we needed to attack Iraq. I think Bush, who had no foreign policy experience and is not known for deep thinking, was put in office and was quickly dominated by advisers and Neocons that saw Iraq as a threat to Isreal and 911 as a golden opportunity to remove that threat.
The American press, while very liberal in general, is heavily influenced by this Neocon line of thought. Did you see Bill Moyer's documentary about the press and the war? Many reporters and editorial writers said they were ordered not to be critical of the war. The staff writers were free to attack Bush in general and free to attack the Republicans to their hearts content, but they were told don't be critical of the war.
I'm not excusing Bush. Bush should be impeached in my opinion. I am just making the point that Bush was not alone. Many more were and are complicit.
Meticulous, brilliant, devastating indictment long overdue June 1, 2008
90 out of 105 found this review helpful
What else would one expect from this brilliant lawyer? He is not afraid to address the issues that everyone else turns away from in a state of denial. His treatment of the deception the Bush administration used to promote the Iraq war for political purposes is the detailed account that Frank Rich's THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD did not quite make. Why? Because he starts with the premise that the Bush administration really can be shown to be criminally negligent at best. And while I loved Rich's book, Bugliosi's is such a knock-out punch that it's truly hard to read it as "over-the-top" even if you start reading it and expect to feel that way.
The author's folksy and informal style is a little surprising until you realize, as I did early on, that he is presenting the case as an advocate would in court. So it's not dry exposition, but passion that is driving the argument.
Remarkably, we live in a country where even people in the know should know better and don't. How many people today recall that it was the U.S. who kicked out the UN inspectors who were begging for more time to assure that there were no dangerous WMD in Iraq?
Bugliosi shows convincingly that Bush and his people had a perverse agenda of wanting a war, something that no other President had ever wanted. He paints a picture of Bush that makes Michael Moore's film look like hagiography. His research and command of the facts are exemplary, as one might expect from a star prosecutor and his appeal to common sense is such that one wonders why no one has made these obvious points before. (Actually, some of us have here and there, such as former Senator George McGovern, who declared that you would have to be crazy--or think Saddam Hussein was crazy--to believe that Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S. in 2003.)
This war never made any sense. Bugliosi is not afraid to charge Bush, Cheney, Rice, and Rumsfeld with murder and helpfully explains how that is consistent with criminal law theory. He puts it together the way no one has before.
He also makes the case that Bush-Cheney have been negligent in the so-called "war on terror". As in the case of the UN inspectors issue (why, if the UN inspectors were in Iraq and reporting progress, did we need to invade?) most Americans probably do not recall that Bush and Cheney originally opposed the 9-11 Commission and were uncooperative with it.
This should have been a HUGE issue in the 2004 campaign.
I strongly suspect that some of these so-called "reviewers" have not read the book. If only John Kerry or John Edwards had taken on the Bush-Cheney regime this way in 2004!
 Start hiring judges June 13, 2008
78 out of 364 found this review helpful
I just finished this book. It is, without a doubt, the most glorious collection of hyper-judgmental tripe I've ever read. Going by the theses outlined in the book, every president, prime minister, king, or queen can be prosecuted, but no credence is given to the actual monsters- the dictators, tyrants, or murder-machines.
Was the war in Iraq a good thing to do ? I am not sure, but I think so. Were lives lost tragically ? Of course. Does either of those questions support the need for such a vile and- yes, I will say it- treasonous attack on the Commander in Chief of this nation ? I say without question the answer is no.
There is a long line of left-wing lawyers, professors, and journalists who trot out these books from time to time, and the media, in their constant struggle to socialize the US, tout them as "the new hero". We saw it with the Pentagon papers, we saw it with... the list is long.
My advice- start hiring judges (which the Senate refuses to do under Harry Reid) and get ready for every politician in the country to be brought up on charges. Bill Clinton bombed camps in Afghanistan. George H. W. Bush went to war to save Kuwait. Jimmy Carter allowed the middle-east to grow into a conflagration. By Bugliosi's standards those are all war crimes. Not to mention every SecState or national security adviser alive for the last 75 years.
We need more judges because we are going to have a lot of cases to prosecute.
On a more prominent point- why is this clown even considered an expert on anything ? He prosecuted Manson ? A one-armed chimp could have prosecuted and convicted Manson. The weight of the evidence and the public mood was enough to convict Manson.
Bugliosi is a media whore who needs some money. That is the only reason this book exists, and it's the only reason Vincent is any more than a footnote in history. Consider this book fiction and fantasy. If this coward had any real resolve he wouldn't tout his "105/106" record in the DA's office. I have friends who are DA's. They clear 100 cases a year.
As a last aside- I've read "Helter Skelter" about three times. It's well written, and informative. But the LA Times and the Sac Bee need to see if the statute of limitations has run out on plagiarism. A large part of that book is lifted directly from newspaper reports without proper credit.
History is a weird beast sometimes, but for this "author", the fact is simple. Were there no Manson, Vincent would be practicing tax law in Topeka. He has little talent, has fame but no reason for it, and enjoys a national stage because he is a nutcase. Simple as that.
So yeah, I think I'll give this waste of time a negative rating.
Prosecutors, read and make use of this book! May 31, 2008
74 out of 89 found this review helpful
The evidence laid out by Vincent Bugliosi is compelling and complete. The crimes of this slacker criminal President are myriad and Bugliosi's outrage and evidence are blended in equal amounts here. Prosecutors from any state and from Washington DC, try Bush for murder. He's a worse psychopath than Charles Manson and certainly has many, many more victims.
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