Should Canada Indict Bush?

Fidel Castro was in Vancouver last year and we didn't arrest him for his real crimes, it is unlikely Bush will get arrested based on the fantasies of Walkom's assertions.

Under the terms of the Geneva Conventions, the rulings of the Nuremburg Trials and the UN Charter,the Bush government started an illegal war.

Thus, Canada would be more than justified in indicting Bush.

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

The only reason not to clap Bush in irons is that we'd be a giant vitreous night-lite inside of an hour. I say he should be <i>persona non grata</i>.

Of course Canada should indict Bush. Unfortunately kwantize is right, if we were to indict him we'd pay a heavy price.

Instead we'll have to witness Martin and Harper fawn all over him. I'd like to see some MP's defy Martin and either heckle him or just walk out as he starts speaking if he addresses Parliament.

I think he should be entarted, aka the banada cream pie special treatment. Same as Klein and Chretien.

Any Vive volunteers?

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

No one should hold their tongue, whether they wish to indict Bush or praise him. I support any politician who will speak his mind.

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Zachary Whalen

I agree that it's unfortunate that we can't arrest him without becoming toast. I think that signatories to the Geneva conventions are obliged to take action against war crimes. Since we can't carry out that duty we ought to discuss a worldwide boycott of all things American. I'm suggesting a Gandhi-style nonviolent campaign of noncooperation in which peace loving people around the world can take part.

Clap a hood over his head, send him off to Guantanamo, deny everything, and look totally puzzled, as puzzled as Bush as he sat in that grade school room reading at his level.

Janis,

Making me laugh. Altho I'd like to send him to North Korea or Iran instead. Yeah and he can do a weapons search while he's there. What a mad man.

Well, at least we got the attention of the White OutHouse.
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War crimes charge for president `ridiculous'

WASHINGTON—A suggestion by a Toronto Star columnist that George W. Bush could be indicted for war crimes when he arrives in Canada at the end of this month was raised at the daily White House briefing yesterday.

Bush spokesperson Scott McClellan was asked whether the U.S. president, in light of recent comments by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a report in Canada's largest-circulation daily, would seek the advice of his legal counsel before leaving the country.

Annan has called the war in Iraq illegal and Tuesday the Star's Thomas Walkom suggested Bush would be a "perfect candidate" for prosecution under Canada's Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act.

McClellan dismissed the question as "ridiculous" and suggested the reporter who raised it had spent too much time on the campaign of candidate Ralph Nader.

Tim Harper

From the Toronto Star:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... alogin=yes

Way to go. Get them talking, then maybe he won't come here after all.

One can only hope.


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"Arrogance is unacceptable. Do it to my face, and I will react" - Jim Callaghan

'We' didn't get the attention of the White House from this article, the fool that wrote it and the tabloid that published it got the attention. And they are both ridiculous.

It seems to me that the USA likes to view itself as the world's police force and in contrast Canada prefers to view itself as the world's justice system so it is our duty to the world to arrest Bush on his arrival into Canada. The rest of the world is looking to us for solutions and this would be the best one we could offer them.

I have emailed Martin suggesting this will be his only opportunity to be one of our "Greatest Canadians".

Great idea! Nail the f**er! I remember a few years back that his pops, Evil George I, came to York U for an honourary degree and people wanted him arrested then too. He seems to be some kind of a war criminal for something he did as CIA director -- just another pile of corpses in America's glorious history. Of course, even though he wasn't Pres at the time, Canada buckled and didn't lock the crook up. Instead, what do we do? Give him an honourary degree.

The worst thing I heard today is that Fox News now has license to bring their propaganda machine to our country. God, now Stephen Herpes may have a chance in the next election.

G

4Canada

What a great idea! I'd nail him at the border, and put that sucker in irons-------not that Canadians do that kind of thing, but how about puting him in a cage on public display instead? Then let kids shoot at him with tar until he is totally tarred, then feather him. For starters. Have the press there with cameras to record it all, every step of the way. It would be kind of festive like to revive a quaint custom, don't you think? The feathers, of course, need to be of the chicken variety. And let the people join in the merriment.