If we do not punish Bush crimes, future government criminals will gladly follow their example.
Recall that every time the Bushies did something awful they referenced some obscure, usually unpunished, transgression by a past American president. Manzanar came up, the German saboteurs in WWII, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, and on and on. It’s a small miracle that they never found a reason to reference the Trail of Tears.
America apparently has a weakness that occasionally makes us elect shitty presidents like Bush. Either we make an example now or the next one will be even worse.