THE DONALD TRUMPS BUSH ON WAR CRIME RHETORIC

When it comes to bragging about being a war criminal, George W. Bush can't hold a candle to Donald Trump. The former President may have launched a criminal war against Iraq sending hundreds of thousands to an early grave and millions more to hospitals, safer neighborhoods, even other countries. But growing up in a three generation family of Senators and Presidents, young George learned how to mask his criminal ventures with rhetoric invoking concepts such as "get them before the smoking gun is a mushroom cloud", or "they're interested in re-starting their WMD programs". The war loving mass media and an ignorant, violence prone populous loves such sound bites, allowing President Bush to declare in his farewell address that his biggest accomplishment was keeping America safe...if you start counting after September 11, 2001, that is.

Unfortunately, political novice and celebrity superstar Donald Trump got no such oral guidance from his forebears. Yesterday, Trump boasted to a stunned George Stephanopolous on Good Morning America, that since we spent $1.5 trillion dollars conquering Iraq, the least we should do is get our investment back by stealing their oil, which, as the third largest reserve in the world, would solve America's rapid climb to $5 a gallon gas and beyond. Trump even trotted out the old cliche: "To the victor goes the spoils". Trump's 'let it all hang out' defense of criminal war is playing well among Republican voters who vaulted him to the No. 1 spot after only a handful of similar interviews.

We can't prosecute Trump for making such immoral and heartbreaking comments; but the least we can do is shun him.