BUSH WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ SHOULD HAUNT US

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BUSH WAR CRIMES IN IRAQ SHOULD HAUNT US
Ray Hanania
http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=rha


Don't we, as Americans, have a moral obligation to ask ourselves, given all of the Bush lies and White House distortions that have since been discovered about the Iraq war, whether or not our president may be guilty of murder?

What President Bush did that day in the name of every single American is an outright act of murder that under any other circumstance would end up before the International Court.

Now you understand why President Bush refuses to recognize the International Court at The Hague. He knows his actions would be condemned by that court as illegal.

The war in Iraq is a violation of international law. The United States had no right to side-step the United Nations and impose vigilante justice, regardless of how many or few "allies" joined that incursion.


March 19, 2003, was a political assassination gone wrong. Every American who supported that attack is an accomplice to that murder and has blood on his or her hands.

[Catfight]

1. I concur

I've asked this question repeatedly. Why hasn't Bu$h been under investigation and facing an independent panel on this corrupt administration? Why does he remain above the law?

[Atman]

2. Nothing new for the Bush crime family

Bush (41) War Crimes Tribunal

I just figure that's part of what the billions of off-budget war funds are for...takes a lot of palm greasing to stay out of jain when you play at the Bush's level.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. John Pilger covers the same topic

The crime committed in our name

The coalition of the willing perpetrated an act of terrorism on the Iraqi people, writes John Pilger.

The invasion of Iraq, which began one year ago today, was "organised with lies", says the new Spanish Prime Minister. Does anyone doubt this any more?

And yet these proven lies are still dominant in Australia. Day after day, their perpetrators seek to obfuscate and justify an unprovoked, illegal attack that killed up to 55,000 people, including at least 10,000 civilians; that every month causes the death and injury of 1000 children from exploding cluster bombs; that has so saturated Iraqi towns and cities with uranium that American and British soldiers are warned not to go where Iraqi children play, for fear of contamination.

Set that carnage against the Madrid atrocity. Terrible though that act of terrorism was, it was small compared with the terrorism of the American-led "coalition". Yes, terrorism. How strange it reads when it describes the actions of "our" governments. So saturated are we in the West in the devilry of Third World tyrants (most of them the products of Western imperialism) that we have lost all sense of the enormous crime committed in our name.

This is not rhetoric. In 1946, the judges who tried the German leadership at Nuremberg called the unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country "the supreme international war crime". That principle guided more than half a century of international law, until Bush and Blair and Howard tore it up, covering their actions with a litany of lies.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/19/1079199419302.html

[0rion]

4. That responsibility weights heavily on me.

ibid

[Disturbed]

5. Bush Crime Syndicate

This group is immune to any prosecution of their many crimes. The Oligarchy has given them full immunity.

[ixion]

6. I keep saying this to people... and asking that question...

Why aren't people concerned that we needlessly killed THOUSANDS of Iraqis?

And saying 'because Saddam was bad' is NOT an acceptable answer. :grr:

[donhakman]

7. HAUNTED BY WHAT