How many deaths does Bush have to be responsible for

[Ilsa]

in order to be physically punished, whether being hit by a pair of shoes or brought before a war crimes court? Were the executions at Nuremberg justified? Would you put Hitler to death if he had killed only a few hundred thousand Jews, Russians, Poles, Gypsies, etc?

[Greyhound]

1. Hitler is our hero. Change his name, put him in the hands of a few hollywood

image consultants and wardrobe/make up artists, and get him a good speech writer, and this nation would make him President by one of the largest landslides in our history.

Think Raygun.

[Ilsa]

7. Yeah, just like Germany did. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

2. He is responsible for more than a million deaths...Iraqi civilians alone

amount to over a million.
Life in prison, and not one of those country-club prisons(perhaps in Iraq!), no parole, solitary confinement. That would satisfy me.

[Ilsa]

6. I've heard so many estimates, so I went low. nt

[stillcool]

3. He wasn't hit by a pair of shoes...

and the meaning of throwing shoes is not physical harm, but an expression of contempt. We throw tomatoes, give the finger..Iraqi's throw shoes. Perhaps only Americans are 'outraged' over Iraqi's expressing themselves like Iraqi's in Iraq.

Dec 06, 2005
Iraq Parliamentary Elections: Allawi Gets The Boot

If you recall, Najaf is the home base of Moktada al-Sadr, now a coalition partner in the main Shi'ite electoral slate, the United Iraqi Alliance. Also, Najaf was the scene of a military standoff in August 2004 between U.S. troops and al-Sadr's militia. As the Prime Minister at the time, Allawi, a secular Shi'ite (and ex-C.I.A. operative) stood solidly behind the U.S. effort.


It may have been because he interrupted a funeral. (In the third shot from the top, you can see a casket being led out the entrance with Allawi's contingent just beyond.) The yellow circles in the next two shots are not thought bubbles. They are evidentiary circles drawn to point out how Allawi and company were run off in a hail of shoes.

I guess Allawi's Ba'athist past doesn't make him the most popular guy in more religious Shi'ite strongholds. Many cultures have unique rituals of social denunciation. In Iraq, as I'm told, the throwing of shoes is the single worst insult that a person can make.
http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/2005/12/iraq_parliament.html

[Ilsa]

5. ITA. It was an insult, not an act of violence.

And it wouldn't have even fazed me if he had been hit. Yes, he is responsible for more than a few hundred thousand death. But some DUers think the shoe-throwing was wrong!

[stillcool]

10. I know..the outraged Americans..

is just too ironic.

[madokie]

4. Way fewer than what he's guilty of

I think the plan must be for the congress critters, Obama team also, to let them think they are going to slide on our of here with no questions asked so they will give up the power of the Presidency peacefully. If they are spooked at all right now I'm afraid they would go all out in causing a major war so as to remain in office. Not so sure the dick hasn't been working on that little war thingy as it stands now. As a matter of fact where is he, whats he up to, etc? We can't forget that mr cheney has been working toward the all powerful presidency since way back early on in his government service. That man cannot be trusted to do what is good for anyone except he and his co-horts. Bushco is going to face the music, just as sure as I'm typing here now. This is a government of laws not men. I've heard PE Obama mention that fact recently too. Have faith and get behind PE Obama and show him you are in support of what hes doing. And don't forget he hasn't lied to us yet and if he has I'd like to know about it. Hang in there we're gonna win this one this time. No one is going to kill or be responsible for their deaths of upwards of a million innocent people and walk away as free persons. Just not going to happen.

[specimenfred1984]

8. Who cares about crimes, I'm investing in bargain hunting cause I'm so smart

I'm a disaster capitalist, I've been fully brainwashed via 100 years of propaganda to cash in on everything regardless of how heinous.

[suston96]

9. Finished watching House of Saddam last night (HBO). By the time it was over....

...I was feeling sorry for him and his two sons and cursing at their horrible treatment by American soldiers at the end.

That's what a well crafted TV production (BBC) can do to the biography of a famous villain of history.

[Thothmes]

11. It would probably have to surpass

LBJ's death count to qualify for physical punishment.