20 years after his war began George Bush gets a timely reminder of his crimes

Mike Prysner (US veteran) being thrown out of auditorium and George Bush


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George W. Bush probably thought he was in for an easy night when he was invited to speak at a live event in Beverly Hills. But the former US president – best known for invading and destroying Iraq – wasn’t reckoning on an audience member named Mike Prysner.

Bush sounded relaxed until Prysner, who served with the US Army in Iraq, interrupted to demand an apology for the million Iraqis killed in the war.

 

Prysner also accused Bush of lying about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and made false claims about Iraqi involvement in 9/11 in order to support his calls for war.

As Prysner confronted Bush, two audience members tried vainly to wrestle the former corporal out of the room. However, they were quickly joined by security guards, who dragged Prysner the rest of the way out of the auditorium.

List of the dead

Speaking outside, Prysner said he had tried to read out a list of friends of his who died because of the war and Iraqis who had been killed during the occupation.

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I tried to read the names but event runners immediately grabbed the list and tore it up. But I was able to shut it down for a little while. Right when Bush was getting into his first little cheesy story about his life and all that, trying to be funny…

Round Two?

A day later at a different event, Bush faced another barrage of criticism. Mint Press News, reported that researcher Jeb Sprague had also challenged the ex-president on Iraq. A Twitter video shows Bush smiling and laughing in response:

Sprague later tweeted the full text of his intervention:

Sprague’s thread continued:

Your war destroyed my cousin’s life. Your war created a nightmare for my family. He’s a shell of his former self. Tens of thousands of Americans and a million Iraqis have died. You used white phosphorus a chemical weapon in Fallujah. Arrest this man. Arrest this war criminal.

No rest for the wicked

Sprague and Prysner’s efforts were commended on Twitter. And one user pointed out that Britain’s own war criminals should be called out as well:

A view which other Twitter users seemed to share:

None of the architects of the Iraq war have ever been brought to justice for their involvement in the disaster. And people like Mike Prysner are doing a public service by making sure the wicked don’t rest easy.

Featured images via YouTube – The Empire Files & Wikimedia Commons/Chris Greenberg

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    1. When are ‘Shrub’ Bush, Cheney and “Bomb them back to the stone age” Rumsfeld going to be tried as war criminals. The ‘Shrub’ administration was responsible for the deaths of more Americans invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan than died in the WTC. Surely they are as guilty as the Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden who was hunted down and killed in in Pakistan. We know where Shrub and his US terrorist accomplices live. Just round them up and try them for their as war crimes.

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