ARE WESTERN LEADERS WAR CRIMINALS ?

Vincent Bugliosi Who called for the Impeachment and Trial of the 2000 Supreme Court Five Felons Returns to Argue for the Trial of George W. Bush for Murder

The Prosecution of George W.Bush for Murder

White Noise, thanks for the update! It looks like The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder is going to be an interesting read (and best-seller).  I do think many people believe that President Bush led this Country into war under false-pretense; a well-written argument can only confirm their belief.  Do I ever see the President being convicted of any war crimes?  Absolutely not! He appears well-insulated; in other words, "exempt".  Also, do you really think the title of Bugliosi's book alone is going to cause corporate publishers and producers themselves to suppress any coverage of the book, or have the corporate publishers and producers been "muzzled" (again) by an 'elite', so to speak? Thanks again for the update! I do hope to read the book!

International Committee of Red Cross Says Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes

Posted: 12 Jul 2008 07:00 PM CDT

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It’s something that has certainly been spoken of within the liberal blogosphere.  I’ve seen the random bumpersticker or freeway blogger suggest it as well, but it is no longer something that can be written off as a partisan or extremist view.  As Countdown guest host Rachel Maddow and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley discuss on Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross sent a report last year to the CIA saying that the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo was unquestionably torture and the Bush administration officials that approved the treatment are war criminals.

Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.[..]

The book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” by Jane Mayer, who writes about counterterrorism for The New Yorker, offers new details of the agency’s secret detention program, as well as the bitter debates in the administration over interrogation methods and other tactics in the campaign against Al Qaeda.[..]

Citing unnamed “sources familiar with the report,” Ms. Mayer wrote that the Red Cross document “warned that the abuse constituted war crimes, placing the highest officials in the U.S. government in jeopardy of being prosecuted.” Red Cross representatives were not permitted access to the secret prisons where the C.I.A. conducted interrogations, but were permitted to interview Abu Zubaydah and other high-level detainees in late 2006, after they were moved to the military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

The book says the C.I.A. shared the report, which Ms. Mayer first described last year in less detail in The New Yorker, with President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Meanwhile...

Cheney weighs fratricide to sell Iran war;   Prominent journalist Seymour Hersh exposes details of a plan considered by US Vice President Dick Cheney on how to provoke war with Iran.
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=65445§ionid=3510203

A Murderous Theatre of the Absurd  By John Pilger   The bombing of civilian areas has doubled, along with the deaths of civilians, says Human Rights Watch. Last month, "our" aircraft slaughtered nearly 100 civilians, two-thirds of them children between the ages of three months and 16 years, while they slept, according to eyewitnesses. BBC television news initially devoted nine seconds to the Human Rights Watch report.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20733.htm

War criminals conference

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=74&jumival=221

First, the above article has taken much of its content from the original article, ‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’ by Mick Meaney (yea, that's a real name)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8814

Second, this article fits in well with the agenda to destroy the USA, both from within and without. Everybody is now dumping on all US leaders since WWII. What fascinating timing.

Third, I find it interesting that Paul Craig Roberts is now had some kind of change of heart, especially after being part of the establishment for so much of his life.

While the USA certainly has its share of criminal actors within its system, actors who wish to destroy the USA, we must be careful not to disband this republican form of government that we have worked so hard to create. For once this system of government is destroyed, there will not be one strong enough to protect the people, and the system that will replace it will more draconian than anything Huxley ever dreamed of.

But with that said, I predict that they will give us Bush's head after Jan 20th, just to further demoralize and ponerize us.

Will International Law Reach Bush?
There's little doubt that George W. Bush committed the "supreme international" crime by invading Iraq, but it's harder to envision Bush facing justice, writes Peter Dyer. September 21, 2008

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb President, has been arrested and now awaits trial in The Hague before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (I.C.T.Y.) on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.

Dominique de Villepin is one of 33 French military and political leaders who have recently been accused in a report released by the Rwandan government of arming and advising Hutu leaders in the genocide and crimes against humanity of 1994.

 
(At the time Rwanda was a French client state and de Villepin was chief aide to French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. The 500-page report, based on a two-year investigation, accuses both men of crimes including enabling the genocide by violating a United Nations Security Council Arms Embargo against Rwanda.)

George W. Bush in March 2003 ordered “Operation Shock and Awe” (though officially dubbed “Operation: Iraqi Freedom”) – the unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq – presenting the world with a clear prima facie case of aggression.

Aggression, in the words of the judgment delivered at the first Nuremberg Trial, is “the supreme international crime” because it unleashes all the other devastation and inhumanity of war.
 
Personal accountability by state leaders for the crime of aggression – initiating an unprovoked war – is the most profound as well as the most difficult goal of the continuing evolution of international criminal law.

For this reason, and because President Bush is head of the world’s most powerful state, clearly the shadow of the law is at present less ominous to him than to Karadzic or perhaps to de Villepin.

But there is no statute of limitations for any of these crimes. Things change over time, often unpredictably. And the international community has been working steadily towards this difficult goal for decades.
 
No doubt the work will continue.