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Comment by arethuza | Hacker News Reader

At least one experienced prosecutor (now retired) thinks that there is a case for prosecuting Bush for murder of the US soldiers who died in Iraq:

http://www.amazon.com/Prosecution-George-W-Bush-Murder/dp/B0...

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That will never happen. Unfortunately, the political decision-makers are above the law. We all know that. Does anyone remember LBJ & McNamara being prosecuted for the deaths of 58,000 Americans and over 2,000,000 Vietnamese?

When we get to comments like this, I think we can safely say this doesn't belong on Hacker News. There must be some other political forum where this can rehashed.

And it is probably just as likely as Henry Kissinger being prosecuted. I'm sure that you may see the odd foreign judge or two throw out a summons for Bush, to little or no effect.

Idiocy, corruption and war profiteering != murder

Actually, the author is a very experienced prosecutor who has worked on many murder cases (including Charles Manson). He certainly sounds like he knows what he is talking about!

Fortunately for the political class, malice can easily be disguised as incompetence. Plausible deniability makes it hard to attribute culpability.

If a mafia top dog sends his goons to invade private property, his goons get shot at and return fire and kill people, then the mafia guy is a criminal. If the commander-in-chief sends his goons in uniform to invade a sovereign nation that poses no threat to the U.S., his pawns get shot at and return fire and kill 100,000s of people, then the commander-in-chief is a national hero, and anyone who dares to disagree is a traitor, a liberal, a communist, a socialist, un-american scum. Lesson to be learned: if you want to be a criminal, avoid the private sector.

Yes, but what can be done about it?

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