What I think the new Barack Obama -- President Obama -- is going to find it very hard to do is go around the world and say: "we're now again a nation of laws," if the first act he commits as President is to walk away from confirmed war crimes.[...]
All they have to do is say: "we're going to allow the law to be enforced." That's not a very difficult thing to say. But it's going to be inconvenient.
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The status of George Bush is not that different from Augusto Pinochet. They've both been accused of running a torture program. Outside of this country, there is not this ambiguity about what to do about a war crime. There are four treaties that make this an international violation. So if you go abroad, and try to travel, most people abroad are going to view you not as "former President George Bush" -- they're going to view you as a current war criminal.
But I don’t imagine that will hamper George’s future plans. Other than Mexico, he never went anywhere outside the U.S. before he became president. He won’t be interested in going anywhere now. The only way that might happen is if the Dems did what they should do, and then he might be slipping out of the country in the dark of night to some hide out in the jungles of South America.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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