Rumsfeld cancelled a trip to Africa a year ago because they told him he'd be arrested and put on trial.
If Bush/Blair/rest of alliance invading Iraq was against UN regulations (which I find laughable, since it was in keeping with the UN resolution, but whatever), then where was the UN alliance against the invaders? Where was the UN resolution denouncing the action? It took Corrupt Kofi Annan a year and a half to say that he thought it was illegal. Perhaps it was the millions he was taking from Iraq's food-for-oil program, or the millions passed to his son-in-law, rather than looking at the legality of the US/UK/Spanish/Bulgarian actions that caused him to opine as such. I'm sure Bush and Blair are laughing on their respective golf courses at the hypocrisy of the UN and Malaysians. Where is the indictment for war crimes against Spain and Bulgaria? And if you want to go there, the 16 previous UN resolutions weren't being adhered to and thus the UN was technically still at war with Iraq.
Yeah, that bastion of human rights, the UN Security Council! As for that, this isn't the first time that media whores have tried this. Da, comrade!
Well, we all know that Malasyia is the shining beacon in the world when it comes to preventing "Crimes against peace" a laughable trial from a laughable country....
There's no such thing as a crime against peace. Technically. As Brian pointed out, the UN resolutions authorized our action. What he didn't mention this time is that Iraq was in violation of its surrender terms from gulf war I, and that means the war is back on.
Murder is murder, no matter how you slice it. Bush/Cheney ordered the murder of several hundred thousand WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Makes no difference how many of our allies rubber stamp the slaughter, it's murder. Makes no difference what excuses you make or how you try to justify it, it's murder.
Puzzled why you call them media whores. I guess it's an unsupportable attempt to discredit their case, which appears to be rock solid: Iraq: 19 years of intended destruction The intended destruction — or genocide — of Iraq as a state and nation has been ongoing for 19 years, combining the imposition of the most draconian sanctions regime ever designed and that led to 1.5 million Iraqi deaths, including 500,000 children, with a war of aggression that led to the violent deaths of over one million more. • Destroying Iraq included the purposeful targeting of its water and sanitation system, attacking the health of the civilian population. Since 1990, thousands of tons of depleted uranium have been dropped on Iraq, leading in some places to a 600 per cent rise in cancer and leukaemia cases, especially among children. In both the first Gulf War and “Shock and Awe” in 2003, an air campaign that openly threatened “total destruction”, waves of disproportionate bombing made no distinction between military and civilian targets, with schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, shelters, residential areas, and historical sites all destroyed. • Destroying Iraq included promoting, funding and organizing sectarian and ethnic groups bent on dividing Iraq into three or more sectarian or ethnic entities, backed by armed militias that would terrorize the Iraqi people. Since 2003, some 4.7 million Iraqis — one fifth of the population — have been forcibly displaced. Under occupation, kidnappings, killings, extortion and mutilation became endemic, targeting men, women and even children and the elderly. • Destroying Iraq included purposefully dismantling the state by refusing to stop or stem or by instigating mass looting, and by engaging in ideological persecution, entailing “manhunting”, extrajudicial assassinations, mass imprisonment and torture, of Baathists, the entire educated class of the state apparatus, religious and linguistic minorities and Arab Sunnis, resulting in the total collapse of all public services and other economic functions and promoting civil strife and systematic corruption. • In parallel, Iraq’s rich heritage and unique cultural and archaeological patrimony has been wantonly destroyed. In order to render Iraq dependent on US and UK strategic designs, successive US and UK governments have attempted to partition Iraq and to establish by military force a pro-occupation Iraqi government and political system. They have promoted and engaged in the massive plunder of Iraqi natural resources, attempting to privatize this property and wealth of the Iraqi nation. Humanity at stake This is but the barest summary of the horrors Iraq has endured, based on lies that nobody but cowed governments and complicit media believed. In 2003, millions worldwide were mobilized in opposition to US/UK plans. In going ahead, the US and UK launched an illegal war of aggression. Accountability has not been established. Dispute any of these horrors?
Mostly US, quite a few British, and only a few token tagalongs besides them. We did occupy, if only briefly.
The UN ordered the deaths of millions of Iraqi children. The war was the liberation of many who followed. And it's silly to claim that Bush/Cheney ordered the murders of any mass number of people there. The closest thing was the wanted dead or alive on the 52 in the deck of cards.
The broke Geneva conventions regarding treatment of prisoners of war, of that I have no doubt -- euphemistically calling POWs "enemy combatants" and changing the rules doesn't really mean a fucking thing. As for the UN and their so-called authority I don't put much weight in that. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
