Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should Be Sent to The Hague

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Published on Sunday, September 2, 2012 by Common Dreams
Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Bush and Blair Should Be Sent to The Hague
South African Nobel Peace Prize Winner says former leaders should face international criminal court for war crimes

- Common Dreams staff

Calling out the international community to stand up and recognize the glaring hypocrisy of sending various African and Asian leaders of relatively weak nations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face trial for their crimes, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa has called for the former leaders of Great Britain and the United States, Tony Blair and George W. Bush, to be brought before The Hague to stand trial for the illegal invasion of Iraq.


Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for both Tony Blair and George W. Bush to be brought before The Hague to stand trial for the illegal invasion of Iraq.

"The immorality of the United States and Great Britain's decision to invade Iraq in 2003," Tutu wrote in an exclusive for the Observer this weekend, was "premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction," and instead of bring peace, democracy, or harmony to the region, "has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history."

Tutu's missive was delivered following his refusal to attend a global leadership summit in South Africa last week after learning that the former Prime Minister Tony Blair would be in attendance.

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the rest:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/02
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/02/desmond-tutu-tony-blair-iraq

[DeSwiss]

1. Agreed.

However, don't forget this one -------->

- K&R