If Congress has the will to do it. Shrub can't escape justice.

The only way Bush gets a pass is if he is not held accountable. Congress can not whitewash his sins away.

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Congress is powerless to absolve Bush of capital crimes and torture charges

Bush is in a heap of trouble. The US Congress should be impeaching Bush —NOT conspiring with him to cover his backside!

Whatever torture compromise may work its way through an intimidated Congress, it cannot help Bush. The US Constitution requires nothing less than a Constitutional Amendment to relieve US obligations under the Geneva convention; and, at least one Constitutional provision means that nothing legal can get Bush off the hook for the crimes that he has already committed.

Let's take the second one first. Bush seeks an ex post facto law that will make legal —after the fact —his violations of the Geneva Convention having to do with torture.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

—US Constitution, Article I

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