I'd be perfectly happy if Bush didn't get any jailtime at all. On one condition.

[Danger Mouse]

     He rats out all the loathsome scumbags that have been controlling him these past eight years. Bush is a coward...if the heat is on, he'll squeal like a lil piggy. I thought it was a shame when Brown resigned as head of FEMA but Chertoff got to stay on as Homeland Security Director. Chertoff was at fault more than Brown, but he got off scot free because Brown acted as his fall guy.
     I don't want the same thing to happen with Bush...as loathsome as Bush is, he's just the figurehead. The puppet. The truly evil men who were pulling the strings would like nothing better than to see Bush take a fall for them while they laugh all the way to South America. It's THEM I want to see at the Hague. It's THEM I want to see answer for their crimes. Let the puppet masters know that they are not immune to the fall of the hammer.
     I say offer Bush a deal: sell them out and you walk. I think it would be amusing for Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the like to be sweating it out at the Hague while their little toady is in Crawford scratching his balls and drinking beer. It'd serve them right.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. I want the truth to come out

and I want justice done. I agree that Idiot in Chief was a figurehead. I want the destroyers of America to be found and prosecuted.

[Danger Mouse]

3. The best path to the truth is Bush himself

because his masters won't talk.
They're pure evil. Bush is just dimwitted and amoral.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I agree with you in theory.

The problem is that Bush is such an egomaniac that he will never admit that he really wasn't The Decider. It's almost certainly true that Cheney et al. manipulated the stupid git into doing what they wanted him to do by making him think it was all his idea, so if he rolled on those guys and claimed they were behind all the shit, he'd have to admit he was punk'd. I don't see his big fat ego letting him do that.

I would like very much to see them all in the dock at the Hague, though.

[Danger Mouse]

4. I think if his big fat ego slammed into his sense of self-preservation...

he might sing a different tune.
Faced with the threat of prosecution, his cowardice will win out.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. We can only hope.

It would be gratifying to see him in an orange jumpsuit, singing like a bird.

[Danger Mouse]

6. It's all nice to dream...

yet I can't realistically see it ever happening.

[Ian David]

7. If Bush rolled-over on all those people, one of them would get their revenge eventually. n/t