You might think cable news networks, morning gab shows, and Comedy Central's unique offering of satire soapboxes might be interested in the new book from Vincent Bugliosi, the Los Angeles county prosecutor who put Charles Manson behind bars, who's now promoting The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, which has sold a quite remarkable 130,000 copies.
You would be wrong.
Bugliosi and his publicity team can't get him booked on Today or Good Morning America, let alone Countdown or The Colbert Report. Book review publications, so far including the New York Times (it's "under consideration"), won't write up his manuscript. Don Imus won't even accept his advertising. Don Imus! (Bugliosi has, however, conducted some 100 radio interviews.)
Perhaps it has to do with the book's central premise: That President Bush could, and should, be held criminally accountable for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. And while Newsweek editor Jon Meacham says "Bush bashing fatigue" may be to blame, there are a few other plausible scenarios.
1) The media might be done with taking the Bush administration's talking points as fact, as Jessica Yellin inadvertently exposed, but accusing the president of murder might be taking things a step too far. You're entering "crimes against humanity" territory, and wouldn't it be easier to make those claims when he leaves office? (Though isn't that why Keith Olbermann has a television show?) Plausibility Odds: 1:1000
2) Prosecution, which was released in May, was published by Vanguard Press, a division of the Perseus Books Group — which also operates PublicAffairs Books, which put out Scott McClellan's What Happened. The cable news talkers went ape shit over that book, with the right-y shows calling McClellan a traitor and the left-y shows cautiously claiming him for their side. Might the media outlets that championed McClellan have faced harsher retribution from the White House than they expected? And made them fearful to repeat their overzealous attacks? Odds: 1:100
3) Or maybe Bugliosi's new book, his ninth, takes a complete departure from his celebrated previous tomes, including 2007's Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and veers off the deep end of crazy. When a book moves 130,000 copies by relying almost exclusively on Internet marketing and advertising alone (read: lots of blogs), maybe its popularity is a test of the book-buying power of extremists. Odds: 1:10
4) Bugliosi has a shitty public relations team, who should be replaced. Odds: 1:3
Editorial Director
Mr. Bugliosi… should we prosecute Bill Clinton for Murder in the deaths of US Service men and women who were "killed" by him in Bosnia? Somalia?
After all, those weren't approved by the U.N. either.
Oh, sorry- I forgot… Clinton's a democrat.
Nevermind.
yep — pretty sad journalism, right?
We decided not to wait for real life — we put the Bush administration on trial for their war crimes…
Come on by for a laugh — you'll probably never see it in real life.
http://www.funwithwarcrimes.com
Thank god for GWB. The only person with the set of balls to want to WIN in Iraq which is what happened. The war is over and the U.S. is finishing the job not these losers Harry Reid and Nancy P and Obambi who wanted to run and hide
Bugliosi is a hero! The media are cowards or they love GB and Olberman wants to be the man attacking Bush. He is a fake. If he hated Bush the way he acts - Bugliosi would be on his show, but he knows Bugliosi would out shine him. There is your answer folks plain and simple as to why VB is getting no coverage. So far people commenting on this article r really stupid!
Frank, Tim and Laura, are morons whose asshats are cutting off the blood supply to their nervous ganglia.
Clinton didn't lie to get the country to bomb Bosnia. GHWB was the one who got us into Somalia as a humanitarian mission. In the Battle of Mogadishu 19 Americans were killed. A Joint operations task force of 100 Delta, Seals and Ranger killed over 1,000 Somalis. The US stayed in Somalia for over six months after that battle and completed the mission, however they didn't capture Aidid.
There was no WMD in Iraq, and no connection to Al Queda and GWB knew that. Even his intelligence told him that. That's why he wanted to fly a U2 spy plane disguised in UN colors in a no fly zone in hopes that Iraq would fire on it. He was going to provoke Iraq, a country he said we were worried was going to detonate a nuclear device in the US, into a war. Yeah right! Keep drinking the kool aid you delusion morons. GWB lied us into a war and the deaths resulting from those lies are MURDER……
The media keep trying to wipe the blood from their own delicate fingers…wiping, wiping…never clean.
maybe because it all seems a little disingenuous… not only is he a vincely-come-lately, but he also spent all of last year hawking his massive whitewash that says oswald was the lone gunman. sorry if i don't snap to attention now…
Frank– no American armed forces members were killed in Bosnia. Not one.
Fine. Let's pit Clinton against Bush in a cage deathmatch. The winner gets to be put to death by a lethal amount of dynamite shoved up his ass.
Err….Frank Lobo? No American deaths in Bosnia and as for Somalia, you do know that it was dropped on us by George H.W. Bush during his last days in office, right? Kinda like a "housewarming" gift to the new Clinton administration (Maybe Bush Junior AND Senior ought to be sent to the Hague for war crime trials). Let's hope that Junior doesn't decide to hobble the next administration with yet another war during the last days of his pathetic administration, like father, like son.
Look.. BUSH LIED AND "DELIBERATELY" instituted a war where in 4167 ++ Americans have died..
Remember Tillman?? ASK HIS FOLKS WHAT THEY THINK!!!
Clinton was a moron.. but YOU CAN NOT PROVE HE DELIBERATLEY STARTED A WAR WITH FALSE INFORMATION!!!
If you could… charge him with murder too!!
As for BUSH… YOU CAN AND YOU SHOULD AND LET THE JURY DECIDE
C-Span will feature an interview with Bugliosi this coming weekend. The dates and times are at this link:
http://www.booktv.org/program......ayMedia=No
Bush lied to us about WMD. He has trashed the U. S. Constitution for the past 7.5 years.
He has used our military for political ends, and used 9/11 to instill fear in our nation. Grow some cohones and prosecute this traitor! Long live America the beautiful.
Frank , Bush sr put us in Somalia and we lost no soldiers in Bosnia . You're a model conservative buddy .
Stunningly looney comparison by Frank Lobo:
"Mr. Bugliosi… should we prosecute Bill Clinton for Murder in the deaths of US Service men and women who were “killed” by him in Bosnia? Somalia?"
Did we go into Bosnia or Somalia under false pretenses? No.
Were we there 7 freakin years? No.
Did we torture any "enemy combatants"?
No we did not.
You're right about one thing, though.
Clinton is indeed a Democrat.
Oh, and what was the really, really important thing he was impeached over?
BY THE IDIOT REPUBLICANS!!!
I am reading this book right now and it is well written, cogently argued, and well researched.
There is clearly a case for trying Mr. Bush for murder.
Remember some of the right-wingers who said the Clinton's murdered Vince Foster and/or Ron Brown?
Vincent Bugliosi makes it very clear that GWB should be held accountable and prosecuted, as well as Cheney and the others. It is just amazing to me that the majority of the American people are so uneducated and so easily manipulated by the media. First we let them get away with cheating us out of having Al Gore as President and then we re-elect GWB - it makes you want to move to another country or live under a rock in embarrassment. How can we try to impeach Clinton for lying about a sexual affair and not try Bush for anything when he clearly has lied to the world about going to war in Irag? I just don't get it, but I am so glad Vincent Bugliosi wrote a book about the details as WHY WE SHOULD PROSECUTE GWB….
I am surprised none of you even mention the 1-1.2 million Iraqis killed or that Depleted Uranium has been used consistently from the Gulf War in Bosnia, Somalia, and Iraq II killing hundreds of thousands more and disabling both American soldiers and the civilian population for the next 4.5 billion years. And that no effort has been put into allowing free access to food and water since Bush started this war! He has instead insisted that privatizing the water and food industries would be the best solution for the Iraqi people, RIGHT!!!
His book about me was all lies! i was never in the Tate house! If he was willing to fudge the truth to put me away, what is he gonna say about our beloved president?
Rise up!
More Iraquis were killed by the American so called "LIBERATION" of Iraq than would have been killed by Saddamm himself. "W" and his cohorts -Cheney-Rice-Rumsfeld should all be tried for MURDER for construing this "UNNECCESSARY" War.
All the American troops should have been sent to Afghanistan/Pakistan where the logical fight was
after 9-11, but this COWBOY Bozo of a pres. we have blew it. How many are really proud to call Geo. W our president? I'm ashamed!!!
Bush can't be prosecuted. Congress already passed a law granting him, and other senior officials, immunity from prosecution. After all, the President is really supposed to be a king or king-like figure anyway and can't be expected to obey any laws; only his own will. He gets his marching orders directly from God, or so he says, and prosecuting Bush would be like prosecuting God. Killing citizens of Iraq? Big deal. They're not humans anyway. Go NEOCONS!!
Bugliosi says Bush can be prosecuted not for the act of murder but because he "caused" the murder of over 4,000 Americans. What implication does this have for the 5 people who "caused" Bush to be selected President? Can't the 4 surviving jurors be brought up on related charges? Does anybody really think that young George could have sent this country down this shithole on his own?
"Constitution? We Don't need no Steenking Constitution!" adapted from Mel Brooks "Blazing Saddles".
Mr. Buglisosi has never lost a murder trial..and he puts forth a good case. Those who do not want to prosecute this President are mentally ill…however that is exactly what Republican ideology has become…a serious mental disorder.
NOTE: Presidential pardons, whether self-administered or done by a succeeding president, do not apply to charges of 'murder', federal or state, nor do 'statutes of limitation' or 'double jeopardy'. Each charge made in behest of those having standing (i.e. complaining families of allegedly unlawfully killed soldiers) and taken up by prosecutors, federal or state, would EACH BE SEPARATE ACTIONS evolved in separate venues, from any others.
Potentially, then, THOUSANDS of such prosecutions of this wretched human person could be brought forward.
Also, as to the question of the applicability of 'International Law" outside of the US, warrants and subpoenas very much DO have tangible, lawful effect. Once snatched-up on an outstanding warrant issued by the ICC, our own home-grown Caligula, WOULD-BE-THEIRS!
Interesting to note, is the fact that the country where our present Chief Magistrate has bought thousands of acres of land, in South America, has NO EXTRADITION TREATY with the US!!!
Yet MORE "coincidence", this inquiring, rhetoricizing mind wonders?
I read this extraordinary book and am 100% behind him and since he is a lawyer, that carries more weight with me about the legality of impeachment.
I'd like to see Mr Bush impeached, like yesterday, for his lies and so much else.
I heard him speak on Democracy NOW and I would be delighted to see Mr Bush suffer the consequences of his inadequacies - the worst president ever, IMHO. In any event, he too is answerable to God our creator and will have to suffer the consequences of his dishonesty etc.
HEY FRANK LOBO DO YOUR HOMEWORKD YOU REPUBLICAN PIN HEAD.. NOT ONE US SERVICE MAN OR WOMAN WAS KILLED IN THE BOSNIAN WAR.. OH LET ME GUESS YOU DIDNT HEAR THAT ON THE RUSH SHOW SO IT CANT BE TRUE RIGH.. PIN HEAD
Frank Lobo says:
Mr. Bugliosi… should we prosecute Bill Clinton for Murder in the deaths of US Service men and women who were “killed” by him in Bosnia? Somalia?
Cannot believe there are still people who can defend the moron-in-chief and the rest of his murderous crew. The bastards should be dragged off to the Hague in chains and executed like what was done to the nazis in WWII. Fucking repuglican killers. I would gladly pull the lever.
Bugliosi has rattled the ultimate sabre: the office of the President of the United States.
He does so with forthright clarity and moral logic.
The real test will now lay in the hands of the NEXT president: will he have the nerve to NOT deliver a presidential pardon upon George W. Bush?
Because that would be the only way for Bush to avoid prosecution.
Bugliosi is a hero. The mainstream press is a censorous bunch of thugs who helped orchestrate 9/11, the Iraq War and liar loans to finance that war. We will pay for years for what PNAC and their offspring, George Bush, did. GB one should be crying, he let loose a monster upon the world. Of course he is guilty of more than we want to know as well, probably.
Buy the book. It's about $16 on Amazon.
Read it.
Then ship it to your Congressperson.
Read it quickly. Some of these Congresspeople have short attention spans.
Bush will be pardoned by President Obama immediately after he is sworn into office. That's why it's imperative he be prosecuted NOW!
Frank Lobo, the premise of Vince Bugliosi's book is based strictly on the criminal aspects of George W Bush, not the political. Watch Bugliosi's testimony about how George W Bush lied to the UN, Congress and the American people that Saddam was an "imminent threat" to the United States, while at the same time plotting behind closed doors to PROVOKE Saddam (with fake UN planes) into a false war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDAFozFn4kU
Kevin Istruga, President Obama would risk impeachment himself if he pardoned Bush, or more likely, he certainly would not be re-elected in 2012. President Obama would also risk that the Democrat Party would not have any president in the White House in 2012 . I doubt President Obama would pardon anyone in this Neocon Cabal, let alone Bush.
Frank Lobo, here is the correct video I was referring to , below (I apologize for not posting this one at first) Again, the premise of Vince Bugliosi’s book is based strictly on the criminal aspects of George W Bush, not the political. Watch Bugliosi’s testimony about how George W Bush lied to the UN, Congress and the American people that Saddam was an “imminent threat” to the United States, while at the same time plotting behind closed doors to PROVOKE Saddam (with fake UN planes) into a false war:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q53p34yzZac
The LIL bush spawnling and it's momstress would make a great cleaning team in a mexican whorehouse; at least that's what I educated my children regarding these characters. Nuff Said!
The staggering amount of blind hatred coming from the left is truly apalling. Bugliosi is a moron, and so are all the lefty, blog-reading, hate America crowd. And that friends is the truth AND the bottom line. I just can't wait to see the screams and howls from you nutjobs when John McCain gets in the White House! I can't wait. Haha, "President Obama". What a bunch of hippy pie in the sky bullshit.
Hey, Georg-IE,
You should have posted your retarded comment on September 11 because it would have better suited your idiotic attack on America; that's what it ultimately is, an attack borne from a fear of true change.
The only way real change can come about is when old farts like yourself slowly die off like the dinosaurs that you are.
We will be patient and you will eventually be accommodating.