| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | irishgit (155)
04/25/2008 | Don't see the problem. Sounds like an exercise in teaching kids to think, and challenge their perspectives.
Of course, to some, teaching kids to think is probably un-american.
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 | Loerke (53)
01/17/2007 | And your point is? That's what history teachers do with previous presidents all the time. Presumably the teacher assigned sides, so students would have had to question their own presuppositions in order to present the case one way or the other. And if the teacher also had a mock trial of Clinton, allegations of political bias are unfounded.
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 | morphagent (0)
12/20/2006 | America, as any other counrty, has been faced with similar questionable leadership during wartime. Two rival brothers will and should put aside their differances and join forces against a threatening common enemy. Shouldn't we do the same with GW? As a counrty, we did elect him after all. If needed, his actions should be tried in court. An alternate case study should be that of Sadam Hussein's trial...it's real.
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 | luridlloyd (10)
07/01/2006 | There will be a day when this should take place in the Haig.
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 | jamestkirk (24)
06/21/2006 | Not right at all. There should be no political bias being exercised in any school. That;s like alowing a class of students 8 yrs. ago being allowed to hold a mock trial against Pres. Clinton for perjury. It's not right. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
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 | JohnSpina (18)
03/27/2006 | 1.A MACH war crimes trial?I have heard of MACH 3 razors,but...
2.Too bad the school did not allow them to read.
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 | EschewObfuscation (71)
03/18/2006 |  The idea that a mock war crimes trial should be organized by a teacher to "try" a sitting president is not offensive. Unless, of course, the trial is presided over by Jay Bennish. Or a Jay Bennish clone. Which is the risk.
I'm OK with it so long as Bill Clinton was similarly tried for his military incursion into Kosovo. That would be fair. Explaining the ground rules of a war crimes trial might lead to some oversight on the part of the Social Sciences Department Head, and I would suppose the School Board would be interested in such ground rules, their veracity, precedent (under US law) and their fairness and consistency. The difference would be that in Clinton's case, enough information has surfaced subsequently that a legitimate, wide-ranging discussion of whether specious circumstances existed during his run-up. I don't believe we know enough about what Bush knew right now to conduct such a "trial" and would question the verdict due to the premature nature of the testimony.
But, as an academic exercise, devoid of partisan grandstanding, sure, go ahead and make the kids think. Please, do take care to check all the liberal wing-nut beanies (with helicopter blades) at the door, though.
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 | Mr.Political (21)
03/13/2006 | First, let us all ask ourselves what the point of the activity was. If it was simply an excersise in how the legal system works, then why was it necessary to include President Bush or the highly controversial (and imaginative) charges of war crimes? Couldn't the students have learned about how a courtroom functioned just as easily if the defendant was John Doe and being prosecuted for a crime students are more likely to learn about in reality?
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 | abichara (66)
03/10/2006 | As opposed, this activity encourages critical thinking and engaging a subject from all viewpoints. That there is no historical perspective here is largely beside the point. We all know that we can't compare Bush to say, Pol Pot, but there's an argument out there that Bush committed a war crime by starting a war under specious circumstances. Now lets argue it from there...
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 | DoorGunner (18)
03/10/2006 | Diminishes real war criminals like Pol Pot. Does a disservice to kids, who rely partly on teachers to instill in them a sense of historical perspective. Does dirty to the victims of the holocaust, the Cambodian and Rwandan genocides and other such. It's nothing more than Bush bashing by hate-driven libtards disguised as objective truth-seekers engaging students in critical thinking.
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 | drbowler (14)
03/09/2006 | God, I miss the days when teachers taught with no political motives. I can understand the teacher may have wanted to have a trial, but why not something classic like Roe vs. Wade, Brown vs. Board of Education? Instead a decent idea of holding a trial gets turned into a poltical message.
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 | GenghisTheHun (179)
03/09/2006 | The entire "war crimes" genre is a big bunch of farm excrement. It is unbelievable how the USA and Allies participated with Stalin to set up more show trials. Under what authority were the defendants tried? Truman sent a US Supreme Court justice, Robert Jackson, to be the chief prosecutor. Really, how can anything be worse--to subvert the highest court of our land this way?
I suppose WWII was a violation of the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact outlawing war in the late twenties.
The proper thing for the victors to do was to have a quick and decisive military court martial or shoot the offenders out of hand. That is the way it was done up to 1946.
To have this administration of pseudo-justice is repulsive, and I only hope that the teacher who is leading this charade in the particular school is merely a simpleton moron and doesn't know any better! I would really hate to have the teacher knowing what he is doing!
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 | Drummond (60)
03/09/2006 | We should feel lucky that there are young people interested enough to debate these issues!
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 | CanadaSucks (50)
03/09/2006 | yeah, don't you hate when kids actually have mock trials and think about hypotheticals? Hey dubs fans, your kids can't hold a candle to schoolchildren of other first-world nations. . .if you are arguing about this you are shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
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 | Jed1000 (74)
03/09/2006 | You mean that a teacher actually forced his/her students to THINK? To play devil's advocate? To look at an issue from more than one angle? Oh, my God... What's happening to our educational system? Next thing you know they'll actually expect these kids to spell correctly. Guess they could start with the difference between mach and mock.
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 | Djahuti (57)
03/09/2006 | You mean a "mock" war trial.So what? It made them think,probably kept kids of either persuasion (for or against) interested and attentive,and they all LEARNED a lot about our Government and Laws.Why is this so threatening? In AMERICA,we supposedly have a RIGHT to question authority.Maybe THAT is one of the great concepts that is now in danger.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (161)
03/09/2006 | It really showcases the lefty crack comsumption of most educators.
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| souljunkie (21)
03/09/2006 | In my day, there was an unwritten respect demanded of young people when speaking of the President in public. This would have never been accepted for one minute by a student much less a Teacher. This is only teaching young people the wrong attitude. Yes we should question our leaders in the right format, but it is not the place for teenagers who dont even vote. They simply need to be taught respect for their leaders. That concept should never go out of style. Get a job first, prove yourself in a couple of social arenas first, then spout off negatively about your President.
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 | louiethe20th (81)
03/09/2006 | Yeah, but what is worse is that they are using International Law as their court!
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