Prosecuting Bush and Cheney Could Prevent Future Crimes

Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same.

“The battle to impose criminal responsibility upon them (Bush, Cheney, etc.) is not for today alone but to safeguard a vast future,” points out Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.

“Otherwise the future will be threatened by Executive lawlessness undertaken because of knowledge that leaders need fear no personal consequences,” he writes in his recently published “America 2008”(Doukathsan Press).

“Today, there is no accountability for our leaders, nor do their own families face death on the front lines as occurred during the Civil War when several Cabinet officials’ sons or brothers faced battle and World WII when one of FDR’s sons participated in extraordinarily dangerous missions in the Pacific.” More