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Enjoyed the post, Destor. The

Oxy Mora — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:52:50 +0000

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Enjoyed the post, Destor. The Dallas Morning News has tid bits of our national juvenile delinquent's meanderings around the metroplex. He is very welcome, it seems, at any mega church event. And recently he was waxing professorial at an SMU conference where he said he was worried about the U.S. becoming "nativist". Now that's a word I hadn't heard since I took an American Studies course oh so many years ago. I'm guessing one of W.'s old textbooks must have somehow made the circuitous journey from Yale to Dallas. Nativist, indeed. Pretty good description of W.

Knowing Dick, it would

CVille Dem — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:46:17 +0000

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Knowing Dick, it would probably just give him the idea to "off" a local teenager with the same attributes. Yes, I am THAT cynical!

"...0% chance of Bush getting

Red Planet — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:35:50 +0000

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"...0% chance of Bush getting arrested."

But 0% was too much risk for our most macho of ex-presidents.

I'm struck by a vision of W searching under the desk and behind the curtains of the office in his Dallas redoubt, wondering aloud:

"That codpiece has got to be somewhere. Nope, no codpiece over there ... maybe under here?"

Well, a man can't go to Switzerland without his codpiece, now, can he?

That's fascinating, Obey.

Michael Maiello — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 16:15:11 +0000

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That's fascinating, Obey. Thanks for bringing some clarity to this.

I live in Geneva, and this

Obey — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 15:59:56 +0000

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I live in Geneva, and this story is not actually getting much play here. There was exactly 0% chance of Bush getting arrested - the Geneva Chief Prosecutor has a vast amount of latitude in who to go after, and the present one has little interest in high profile international cases, focusing instead on small-time criminal gangs. His predecessor Bertossa was big on going after dictators like Pinochet, russian oligarchs and so on, which is where the hard-ass reputation probably comes from.

What is interesting about the demands to arrest Bush is that they are coming from across the political spectrum, from the extreme right UDC party to left-wing anti-torture organizations.

http://www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/665032/monde-bush-annule-visite-suisse-...

Excellent point.

Michael Maiello — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:26:10 +0000

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Excellent point.

This wouldn't be an issue if

Beetlejuice — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:18:01 +0000

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This wouldn't be an issue if we were the nation built on the foundation of law we claim to be. The Swiss are only reminding us of our fiduciary responsibilities to apply the laws we hold so dear evenly and equally so that no one is above the letter of the law as it has been written.

accountable to the American

jollyroger — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:40:51 +0000

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accountable to the American justice system

A foundatonal threshold to the exercise of universal jurisdiction over war crimes is the failure of the home justice system to address the accusations.

Thanks to Prez's intervention specifically to truncate any such investigation, we have met that threshold.

It would be nicely

SleepinJeezus — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:40:18 +0000

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It would be nicely appropriate. We had our chance, but Obama blew it!

They might not prosecute him.

Donal — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:30:31 +0000

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They might not prosecute him. They might just put him in solitary for an indeterminate amount of time.