Obituary: ... there they go !

[Rigby5]

And all that did was give him "a stay" until he's no longer in office. Have to admit that I don't know if the Statute of Limitations keeps running during that time period - think it's also stayed but not sure.

Agreed.
But once out of office, people are rarely prosecuted, like Bush lying about Iraqi WMD.

 

[Rigby5]

Brigitte Bardot: How the original ‘sex kitten’ courted controversy until the end​

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-...b2847527.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

People are too critical or expect too much.
Like Roseann Barr getting cut out over her "planet of the apes" comment.

 

[Shiftless2]

But once out of office, people are rarely prosecuted, like Bush lying about Iraqi WMD.

Was he lying or did he simply receive bad intelligence re WMD's?

 

[sear]

Was he lying or did he simply receive bad intelligence re WMD's?

Lying, unquestionably.

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt, that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
U.S.President Bush (the younger) televised address to the U.S. March17th, 2003

- piffle -

The Bushies railroaded us. "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt" was President GWB's way of insinuating that not only did the U.S. evidence leave "no doubt".
But that this ostensible evidence has been corroborated by ostensibly objective allies.

Bush Lied ! Thousands Died !
For what?

 

[Shiftless2]

That doesn't really address the question - what did his intelligence sources tell him? That was the point of my commen.t.

 

[sear]

"That doesn't really address the question - what did his intelligence sources tell him? That was the point of my comment." S2 #145

a) President Bush lied.
b) What Bush lied about: his and other intelligence sources tell him beyond doubt? "the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." &
c) "Time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer. The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." U.S. President Bush (the younger) in his State of the Union speech Jan. 29, 2002

It was outright wholesale fraud.

 

[Rigby5]

That doesn't really address the question - what did his intelligence sources tell him? That was the point of my commen.t.

There were no real "intelligence sources".
It was all deliberate lies.
Like they took an invoice for the Yellowcake uranium Saddam had purchased in 1979 for the Osiraq reactor, and crudely over wrote the date to look like 1989.
And the 1979 yellowcake was still there untouched when we invaded, so we sold it to Canada.
The anthrax mobile weapons labs were actually hydrogen generators for balloons used for getting upper wind readings for artillery.
Could you imagine trying to make bio weapons in something that was not even enclosed?
And there was no sarin or VX at all, and the most Saddam ever had was mustard gas he got from the US.
Not only were all the claims obviously fake, but all of Europe and the UN inspectors all told us we were wrong.