Just a Reminder -War Criminals Among Us: Bush, Cheney, and the Eyes of the World

[malaise]

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35397/bush-cheney-war-crimes/

Last week, Richard Clarke, the man to whom nobody in the administration of C-Plus Augustus listened because what did he know, anyway?, had a chat with Amy Goodman in which he minced no words regarding his former employers.

"I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have. But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration. It's clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least, it's clear that some of the things they did were war crimes."

And, something that most of us missed, there was a court on the other side of the world that agreed.

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were... found guilty of war crimes. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia...At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

Someone should send this to the hacks at M$Greedia

[Kaleva]

1. Few are going to care.

Our own party leaders have dismissed this long ago. Some of whom are now good friends of Bush.

[malaise]

4. So true

By the way the US can’t tell world leaders who can visit whom
The arrogance is frightening. Truth be told China is a dove when compared with either the US or Russia.

[Ferryboat]

2. Kissinger needs to on that list

Henry doesn't get a pass. Some people remember.

[malaise]

3. Yes

Agree

[fescuerescue]

5. We've been talking about sending Bush to The Hague since about 2004

I don't know.

I'm starting to think that maybe that's not going to happen.

Maybe tomorrow.

[malaise]

6. LOL