Did you happen to catch Laura’s interview of Vincent Bugliosi on GRITtv yesterday?

Bugliosi suggests that Bush (and Cheney) should be tried for the murder of perhaps as many as a million human beings and should face the DEATH penalty.

Americans must not close their ears to the truth nor their minds to the concept of justice.

Bush and Cheney deserve to stand to stand trial, and if found quilty, to pay the price. Else the both the Rule of Law, and the notion that no one is above the law will be seen, and will actually be, nothing but sham, pretense and blatant hypocrisy.

Bush and Cheney’s behaviors constitute the most capital of crimes, and to believe, even for an instant, that their ‘position’ should excuse or protect them, given that all that they have done (and there is probably much that we, the people have not yet discovered), they have done, not in their own names, but in ours, effectively so far, hiding themselves, in most cowardly fashion, BEHIND the rest of us.

If we, the people, do not demand an accounting and, if found to be justified, a most serious consequence for such murderous and destructive behaviors then the world would, reasonably, be correct in assuming that we, the American people, tacitly condoned or even wholeheartedly embraced what has been done in our names.

Just as the people of Germany had to ‘own’ their dalliance with fascism, so too, shall the people of this nation.

History, and our neighbors in the rest of the world, will not forget what we have permitted, what we still permit and what we are loath to admit.

Our nation was hijacked with the connivance and calculated complicity of many, and they too must face an accounting.

But ALL of the ‘accounting’ must come, at its center, from each citizen’s examination of their own individual conscience, however painful such honest assessment may be, for no accounting may be successful unless and until it begins there.

It is past time to begin.

Now there’s your rule of law bumper sticker!

Loss of out good will among nations.
Emboldening those unjust parties.
Loss of our economic well being as thieves and gamblers turned our orderly markets into a gambling casino that had been a reliable place in which the world could rely on.
Shame heaped on our heads for the injustices done in our name.