Who is willing to hang beside George Bush?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe ad features a picture of Saddam getting noosed.\u00a0\u00a0 It states:<\/p>\n
Saddam Hussein and his henchmen were hanged for committing crimes against humanity \u2013 a war crime. George Bush has committed war crimes in Iraq by attacking and destroying that sovereign country and causing the death of hundreds of thousands of children, citizens and soldiers on the basis of lies.<\/p>\n
Now Bush and his cronies are preparing for more war crimes, this time against Iran — an unprovoked, aggressive war, as in Iraq, which is called a “crime against peace.” This is the most serious crime of all \u2013 the same crime for which Nazi leaders were hanged.<\/p>\n
They have drawn up plans to use nuclear weapons against Iranian nuclear power facilities. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the bombing of such “inherently dangerous” targets because the fallout can kill millions of innocents. Moreover, international jurists have ruled that the use of such weapons is a crime against humanity because of the indiscriminate horror, death, destruction and fallout they cause.<\/p>\n
Bush has repeatedly stated that all of these criminal options “are on the table,” yet it is much more than that. He has ordered Patriot missile batteries and aircraft carrier groups to the region. He has raided Iranian diplomatic compounds and arrested their diplomats. He has accused Iran of supporting the Iraq insurgency and then stated that he would “seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”<\/p>\n
Bush prepares for nuclear war while he rejects all calls for diplomacy. He refuses to listen to the American people, members of Congress, the Iraq Study Group, his own generals and intelligence officials, or our allies abroad.<\/p>\n
In the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy confronted a real and imminent threat, defused it and preserved the peace and the strength of America. Now Bush concocts a false and distant threat, rejects rationality and fans the flames of nuclear war.<\/p>\n
Congress Members and Military Generals, if you don\u2019t act to stop Bush\u2019s dangerous and reckless conduct, you will be accomplices to war crimes. History will judge you harshly. You cannot wait. Bush can use any incident as a pretext to attack Iran.<\/p>\n
You must follow the Watergate precedent when Republican leaders went to the White House and demanded that Nixon resign. Tell Bush that the jig is up and that he and his cronies must resign immediately or face criminal prosecution. ***********<\/p>\n
The ad ran in the Washington City Paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A high resolution PDF version of the ad is here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(14 megs – slow load time for dial up). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,10,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-elective-dictatorship"},"yoast_head":"\n
Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jimbovard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"headline\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":482,\"commentCount\":12,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Attention Deficit Democracy\",\"Attention Deficit Democracy\",\"Bovard\",\"Bush\",\"Elective Dictatorship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"James Bovard\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\",\"name\":\"Jim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Jim\"},\"description\":\"Bovard's homepage is at http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \\\"the roving inspector general of the modern state\\\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \\\"one-man truth squad.\\\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \\\"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\\\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/jim.bovard\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/jimbovard\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","og_description":"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]","og_url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","og_site_name":"James Bovard","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","article_published_time":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@jimbovard","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"},"author":{"name":"Jim","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"headline":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us","datePublished":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"},"wordCount":482,"commentCount":12,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","keywords":["Attention Deficit Democracy","Attention Deficit Democracy","Bovard","Bush","Elective Dictatorship"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","name":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","datePublished":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/","name":"James Bovard","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f","name":"Jim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Jim"},"description":"Bovard's homepage is at http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![here<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\nVelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming:<\/p>\nWAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nWho is willing to hang beside George Bush?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\nThe ad features a picture of Saddam getting noosed.\u00a0\u00a0 It states:<\/p>\nSaddam Hussein and his henchmen were hanged for committing crimes against humanity \u2013 a war crime. George Bush has committed war crimes in Iraq by attacking and destroying that sovereign country and causing the death of hundreds of thousands of children, citizens and soldiers on the basis of lies.<\/p>\nNow Bush and his cronies are preparing for more war crimes, this time against Iran — an unprovoked, aggressive war, as in Iraq, which is called a “crime against peace.” This is the most serious crime of all \u2013 the same crime for which Nazi leaders were hanged.<\/p>\nThey have drawn up plans to use nuclear weapons against Iranian nuclear power facilities. The Geneva Conventions prohibit the bombing of such “inherently dangerous” targets because the fallout can kill millions of innocents. Moreover, international jurists have ruled that the use of such weapons is a crime against humanity because of the indiscriminate horror, death, destruction and fallout they cause.<\/p>\nBush has repeatedly stated that all of these criminal options “are on the table,” yet it is much more than that. He has ordered Patriot missile batteries and aircraft carrier groups to the region. He has raided Iranian diplomatic compounds and arrested their diplomats. He has accused Iran of supporting the Iraq insurgency and then stated that he would “seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq.”<\/p>\nBush prepares for nuclear war while he rejects all calls for diplomacy. He refuses to listen to the American people, members of Congress, the Iraq Study Group, his own generals and intelligence officials, or our allies abroad.<\/p>\nIn the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy confronted a real and imminent threat, defused it and preserved the peace and the strength of America. Now Bush concocts a false and distant threat, rejects rationality and fans the flames of nuclear war.<\/p>\nCongress Members and Military Generals, if you don\u2019t act to stop Bush\u2019s dangerous and reckless conduct, you will be accomplices to war crimes. History will judge you harshly. You cannot wait. Bush can use any incident as a pretext to attack Iran.<\/p>\nYou must follow the Watergate precedent when Republican leaders went to the White House and demanded that Nixon resign. Tell Bush that the jig is up and that he and his cronies must resign immediately or face criminal prosecution. ***********<\/p>\nThe ad ran in the Washington City Paper.\u00a0<\/p>\nA high resolution PDF version of the ad is here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(14 megs – slow load time for dial up). \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659,6,10,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","8":"tag-bovard","9":"tag-bush","10":"tag-elective-dictatorship"},"yoast_head":"\nIran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jimbovard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"headline\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":482,\"commentCount\":12,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Attention Deficit Democracy\",\"Attention Deficit Democracy\",\"Bovard\",\"Bush\",\"Elective Dictatorship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\",\"name\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/farm1.static.flickr.com\\\/135\\\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/02\\\/16\\\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"James Bovard\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\",\"name\":\"Jim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Jim\"},\"description\":\"Bovard's homepage is at http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \\\"the roving inspector general of the modern state\\\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \\\"one-man truth squad.\\\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \\\"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\\\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/jim.bovard\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/jimbovard\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","og_description":"\u00a0 The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.\u00a0\u00a0 I snapped this photo of their\u00a0Republican fashion statement\u00a0at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.\u00a0 (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]","og_url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","og_site_name":"James Bovard","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","article_published_time":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","article_modified_time":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@jimbovard","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"},"author":{"name":"Jim","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"headline":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us","datePublished":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"},"wordCount":482,"commentCount":12,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","keywords":["Attention Deficit Democracy","Attention Deficit Democracy","Bovard","Bush","Elective Dictatorship"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/","name":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us - James Bovard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","datePublished":"2007-02-17T04:11:32+00:00","dateModified":"2007-02-17T15:11:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_m.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/iran-bush-and-velvet-revolutionus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/","name":"James Bovard","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f","name":"Jim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Jim"},"description":"Bovard's homepage is at http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism & Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/135\/372902531_82397cab8c_b.jpg\"){kind=link}