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[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"A few differences" to the admin that fucking manufactured evidence to justify a full scale invasion of Iraq to the benefit of Exxon fucking Mobil.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And Obama could have tried to prosecute Bush for that! He chose not to. He chose to double down in Afghanistan. His administration gave a shiny liberal seal of approval to all the authoritarian advances made by Bush, rather than dismantle it. And now we have Trump taking advantage of those very same policies!

[–] finitebanjo@piefed.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no end to the number of people who could have tried to prosecute Bush, but placing the responsibility on their direct political rivals is just idiocy. No politician should be pursuing the imprisonment or trial of their competitors, even if you agree that the competitor did commit horrible crimes, it should be somebody else's responsibility.

Obama did not pardon the Bush Admin.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

The DOJ falls under the remit of the executive. If a former president were to be charged for their crimes, the sitting president would necessarily be involved.

I suppose a charge could come from UN court of justice and ha lol like our leaders would ever allow that precedent to get set