Momentum Building For Bugliosi's Case Against George W. Bush For Murder

For Vincent Bugliosi, one of America's foremost prosecutors and authors, George W. Bush's purposeful crime of misleading America into war is a vile, despicable and prosecutable act. It angers Bugliosi deeply. So much so that he's written a new book, The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder.

To be clear, this is not a partisan effort. Not Republican v. Democrat or an assault on political ideology. It's a legally binding and provable case for murder, that Bugliosi -- an American patriot -- would bring against any president regardless of any and all affiliations.

In Vincent Bugliosi's own words:

"I want to state that in writing this book my motivation was not political. Whether I'm giving a final summation to the jury or writing one of my true crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. Therefore, my only master -- my only mistress -- are the facts and objectivity. And this is why I can give you a 100% guarantee that if a Democratic president had done what George W. Bush did, I would have written the same exact book."

It was obvious from his heartfelt delivery and palpable anger, that Bugliosi was telling the truth. The actions of George W. Bush have enraged him. Were Bush a Democrat, Bugliosi's wrath would have been the same. First and foremost Bugliosi is a patriot, seeking justice for his nation -- which will come in the form of a conviction.

Bugliosi's presentation blew the roof off the venue at the Los Angeles' Great Mind series, hosted by Progressive Democrats of America, and co-sponsored by CODEPINK, LAProgressive.com and several other grassroots groups. Bugliosi held the audience spellbound as he guided it down the twisted path of Bush's hedonism and criminality. In true prosecutorial style, this master of law made his audience believe -- and understand -- that George Bush was guilty of murder. True, the audience was principally progressive and already on Bugliosi's side. Nonetheless, the evidence was overwhelming that Bush took this nation to war knowing there were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And despite the thousands upon thousands of deaths that he caused, George Bush wasn't bothered in the least. In fact, while young Americans and Iraqis were dying, George Bush was having fun.

Bugliosi describes it this way:

"There's no way to dispute it. The evidence is overwhelming that throughout the hell on earth that George Bush created in Iraq with over 100,000 people dying horrible, violent deaths and hundreds of thousands of their survivors crying out hysterically and having nightmares over what happened to their loved ones, George Bush smiled - smiled through it all. In fact you can look at a photograph of George Bush with 6 or 7 people in it smiling. And who's got the biggest smile on his face? George Bush!

The evidence is very clear that while young American soldiers -- 18 and 19 year old kids - who never had a chance to live out their dreams -- were being blown to pieces by road side bombs in Iraq, George Bush was having a lot of fun and enjoying life to the fullest. I'm talking about running, bicycling, joking with friends, slapping backs, dancing and swirling his hips like Elvis... almost always seeming to be in the very best of spirits.

Oh I know the White House press people say he takes the loss of American lives hard and he suffers -- but that's just pure moonshine!... Suffering on one hand and having fun, joking around and enjoying life on the other, ARE SIMPLY INCOMPATIBLE."

The audience, mainly comprised of American patriots angry at Congress for not impeaching Bush, erupted in a thunderous, albeit bittersweet response --messaging to Bugliosi that his observations were shared.

Seated in the audience were many attorneys -- each in possession of a newly purchased book that they fanned furiously from footnote to text as they followed Bugliosi along. To say this audience was riveted is an understatement. In a nation demoralized by an unconstrained president and a spineless constrained Congress, Vincent Bugliosi offers the promise and potential for the justice that Congress failed to provide. The momentum is building.

Two weeks ago when I interviewed Bugliosi at his home in California, he told me he'd just gotten off the phone with an unnamed State Attorney General who'd called to inquire about the basis for his case against Bush. Interest from the legal and government communities had begun. Since that time, it has grown significantly stronger.

In the following clip, Vince describes his recent conversation with an unnamed conservative Republican Congressman, who after listening to the audio of Vince's book, tells Vince he has come to believe that Congress was misled into war:

In the next clip, we witness an exchange between Vince and an audience member in which Vince reveals his recent conversation with Congressman John Conyers and Conyers' support for Vince.

For the record, Congressman Conyers, we all support what Vince is doing!! We wish we could say the same for you!

Of course, Vince did have his share of challenges last night as fellow attorneys took him on. Several lively exchanges occurred -- but in each situation the challenging attorney publicly committed to working with Vince to move Bush's prosecution along.

Here's a clip of Los Angeles attorney Peter Thottam engaging in a little lawyerly love. I've titled it: "Pinocchio Revealed." You'll figure it out, I'm sure...

Thankfully, as you will see, Vince and Peter have a meeting of minds -- and Pinocchio -- I mean Peter -- graciously agrees to come on board. Thank you, Peter!! And thank you, Vince, for showing what a great prosecutor you are and for being so gentle with Peter!

Finally, as I reported in my first article on Vince Bugliosi's new book, The Prosecution Of George W. Bush For Murder, (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-milazzo/a-call-to-heroes-my-sit-d_b_108496.html), corporate media -- which Vince refers to as mainstream or national media - -has completely blacked out the book. There is a bright side however, in that Vince believes a major newspaper may soon feature an article stating the book should not be blacked out! In any event, the patriotic blogosphere continues to push Vince's book up the list just as it did with Jeremy Scahill's "Blackwater." As Vince says in the following clip, the book is now at #12 on the New York Times Bestseller list - thanks to all of YOU!

Here's the clip of Vince describing his experience with a frightened, spineless - in his words, "mainstream media":

We're on our way to #1. Buy the book. Justice is on the way!! Thanks to you Vincent Bugliosi -- and to your fabulous wife and partner, Gail!!

A huge and heartfelt thank you to Dennis Whipple for allowing me to take his beautifully shot full length video, cut it into little clips, and rebroadcast it in much poorer quality. Dennis - you're a patriot and a hero!!
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(This Vincent Bugliosi event -- which is part of the Great Mind series in Los Angeles -- will be televised on CSPAN. Watch your CSPAN schedule for when it will air.)

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Comments

[Liberoservative]

Thank you and please keep this in the minds of all of us.... I think that we should all email the MSM and ask them why they are giving the case zero coverage....

[WarriorLemming]

They (the MSM) are just as, Vincent Bugliosi has said "frightened and spineless" and I have to agree 110% with this assessment and extend it to Congress as well. It was unbelieveable and frustrating to watch and wonder where has all the investigative reporting gone. Vincent Begliosi, has taken on the job of courageous reporter asking the questions that should have been asked by all the major networks BEFORE this "illegal" war. I have lost faith in the MSM and take much of what they report as of little value except maybe the weather reports. Hurray for Bugliosi!!!

[GiggidyGeshmoygen]

even if there is a credibly serious attempt to hold bush accountable, he'll still be grinning and backslapping on his front porch at Casa del Bushco in Paraguay (which has no extradition treaty with America)

[normathumb]

As long as the Supreme court is dominated by the crew that appointed this administration or was appointed by this administration, this is all a rather moot point.

[Thorn]

Truman sanctioned the fire-bombing of Dresden, which killed more people (more horribly) in three nights than the death toll at Hiroshima. That was an attack of rage. Sheer rage. Are you inclined to charge Truman and Churchill with war crimes, posthumously? Be honest.

[bentenrai]

Your question is masking the truth. I'm about to believe you're GOP.
Did Truman and Churchill lie to bring their country into a war? No, they were forced to go to war to defend their countries freedoms against German, Italian and Japanese invasions. Then again who started that war? The US? Great Britain? Nope, the Germans did the invading, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Did Iraq have anything to do with 9/11? Go to PBS.org and watch the series called Bush's war, it will enlighten you a bit.

[DasBoot]

Thanks for the clips. It is a pleasure to hear Mr. Bugliosi (again) saying with such conviction, emotion, and clarity what mainstream America is too scared to even think.

I am not optimistic it will happen, but god do I wish it.

[levibatgirl]

Bugliosi has always struck me as honest and professional. I will purchase his book and read it.

[Shaddup]

This book should be news, at the least, on every US editorial page if not the front. The media is complicit. Congress and the Senate are complicit. Puuuhleeeeze keep covering this. I pray Mr. Bugliosi doesn't have an "accident."

[Sundialsvc4]

"Impeachment," Linda. That's the appointed mechanism. That's what has to happen first.

And for that NOT to have happened is a high-crime unto itself ... just as a Grand Jury is prohibited by law not to investigate any circumstance where there is reasonable cause to believe that a crime may have been committed, the House of Representatives "SHALL" Impeach.

But we are dealing with "the enemy within," the criminals who reside INSIDE the Halls of Congress, INSIDE the Court, and of course, INSIDE the White House.

The well-reasoned legal cases like this one continue to abound, continue to gain rightful force and momentum, but I say again ... that reasoning and that anger must be channeled toward IMPEACHMENT. Once the Officeholder is stripped of his Office, and (by impeachment) the presumptions-of-intent thereunto associated, THEN he can be tried for any number of subsequent crimes including First-Degree Murder.

[LindaMilazzo]

Sundial:

Impeachment and criminal prosecution aren't mutually exclusive. They just happen at different times. Impeachment happens while Bush is in office with the intent to remove him from office. Criminal prosecution happens after Bush leaves office with the intent to put him in prison.

The fact is, Vince Bugliosi lays out a clear case for Bush's crimes in his book, which advances the case for impeachment. Although Bugliosi presents Bush's crimes as evidence for criminal prosecution, those same crimes are evidence of impeachable offenses which should have ALREADY been used by the House and the Senate to impeach him.

[budlawman]

This book needs to be "out there" in the mainstream debate, both as a legal matter and as a political matter, especially since the spineless Democrats have taken impeachment off the table. If nothing else, a thoroughgoing substantive discussion of this book provides a timely and poignant reminder of how BushCo and McSame have to be fully understood -- in their cynical mindless infliction of needless brutality, pain and suffering at home and abroad -- and rejected this November, because McSame would do it all over again, if he had the chance.

[TuFu]

THE COMING FIRESTORM. We are in an era 10X worse than McCarthyism, and the left caved in again. They may call themselves progressives today to tie them to the early 20th Century reformers, but they failed and have not stood up to the real terrorists: the Neocon and Bushites and "So" Cheney's and torturemongers. The stain of tyranny has gotten boots and permanently sullied the land.
Who are the Good Americans, who like the Good German's of the 1930's turned away, let tyranny flourish, and denied responsibility for their abhorrent behavior, as we have denied responsiblity of the abhorrent evil of George Bush.
A network may not survive what's coming, and, perhaps, a paper or two. The intimidation, lies, subterfuge, censorship, blackouts/blacklists, corporate terrorism of the airwaves. The corporate owenership of the airwaves may even require prosecution for military & other propagana.
Vincent Bugliosi deserves much thanks from all of us. We are not out of the woods; we may never be able to given the damage given the spineless Democrats; yet, I have what I was born with, and what the founders of this country were born with, a love of liberty so deep that the real heroes of the country are those WHO LIVE THE LIBERTY: few statues for the true heroes of the countries, which tells you how screwed up this country really is.

[ToeJamSam]

Bugliosi is tooting his horn in the hope of gaining his 15 minutes of fame. He has no leg to stand on, and only vengeful libs give him any heed. Right or wrong, America stands by their war-time presidents.

Get a life!

[inthenitemare]

You never bothered to read the article did you? Typical. It's not just "vengeful Libs" giving him heed anymore.

And, America does not stand by their "wartime presidents" especially when their name is George Bush, just you and the other 25%ers.

[Cathexis]

Stand by a "war-time president," right or wrong?!?

What an unprincipled and incredibly naive comment. When people look back at WWII and wonder "How could the German people let that happen," I think we have our answer. And when future generations look back and wonder "How could they have let that happen in America," we will have much to answer for.

You are incorrect, Sir. Some of us have never forgotten "principle" and we know the difference between Patriotism and Nationalism. Anyone who stands behind government officials RIGHT OR WRONG is, at best, a naive sycophant or, at worst, a traitor to the country.

[Suzie813]

That's ridiculous. Bugliosi has been famous for a long time. He successfully prosecuted Charlie Manson and that bunch for the Tate/LaBianca murders almost 40 years ago. He had a best-seller with Helter Skelter and other books since then. Fame is certainly not his motivation and his opinion is listened to.

[BillZBubb]

I wish it would happen, but I'm not holding my breath. The right will impeach a president for a BJ, the left run like cowards at even the thought of officially questioning a right wing president.

[Titonwan]

I just now ordered the book. I may not even read it! I just support any and everything that will give this criminal (and the nation) justice. I encourage every one to support this guy. Can you imagine? The republicans would be wetting their selves. That is the day I've been dreaming of for a long long time. Next, Cheney's head on a platter. Thanx for article- great job!