This is good news. Hopefully the first of many similar efforts that have been quashed and ridiculed by the butt-kissing traditional media. Not too dissimilar from another work, "Common Sense," by T. Paine.
HALinNY
=> Subject: [OT] Indicting Bush et al
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=> From http://www.tomdispatch.com/
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=> "Think of it as a Tomdispatch.com milestone. This is now the
=> first website to "indict" the President, the Vice President,
=> and their colleagues for defrauding us into war in Iraq. I
=> put that "indict" in quotes because what follows, as former
=> federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega makes clear in her
=> new book United States v. George W. Bush et al., is "not an
=> actual indictment." It can\'t be, of course; but consider it
=> the second best thing.
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=>
=> De la Vega has, in her career as a prosecutor, prepared
=> numerous fraud indictments and, as she argued in the first
=> excerpt from her book posted at Tomdispatch earlier this
=> week, "A Fraud Worse than Enron," what George W. Bush, Dick
=> Cheney, and their senior officials committed was a crime,
=> not just in the colloquial sense of the word, but in the
=> legal sense too (and not a victimless crime either). While
=> their crime was of a magnitude that puts even Enron, no less
=> run-of-the-mill fraud cases, to shame, it also has all the
=> elements of a typical, small-time scam.
=>
=> De la Vega\'s "hypothetical indictment" of George W. Bush,
=> Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Colin
=> Powell that you are about to read remains, unfortunately, in
=> the realm of fantasy. But only for now. Until our world
=> comes more fully to grips with the criminal nature of the
=> Bush administration\'s acts, you can at least turn to the
=> full de la Vega book. A Tomdispatch.com special project,
=> produced in conjunction with Seven Stories Press, a
=> wonderful independent publisher, it\'s officially published
=> on December 1st (but available now).
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=> The full text of the "hypothetical indictment" can be found
=> at the link above.
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=>
=> Bill
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