What do you think about the growing number of people that are claiming Bush and his political supporters and staff should be brought up on war crime charges?
It seems as though almost every day another person in another country somewhere is throwing his or her name into this hat:
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
(http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/03/spain-judge-says-bush-and-iraq-war.php)
Spain judge says Bush and Iraq war allies should face war crimes charges
Katerina Ossenova at 2:16 PM ET
[JURIST] Baltasar Garzon, an investigating judge for Spain's National Court, said Tuesday that President George W. Bush and his allies eventually should face war crimes charges for their actions in Iraq. In an opinion piece for El Pais, Garzon called the war in Iraq "one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history." Garzon also criticized those who joined the US president in the war against Iraq as having equally responsible for joining the war effort despite their doubts. In 1999, Garzon tried to extradite former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet from Britain and try him for crimes against humanity. Reuters has more.
On Sunday, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair may one day face war crimes charges before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague. Moreno-Ocampo said that the ICC could investigate allegations of war crimes stemming from the conduct of coalition forces in Iraq, so long as Iraq agrees to ratify the Rome Statute and accede to ICC jurisdiction.
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Personally, I think there is more of an obligation for We the People to be heard first. If the President has to answer to anyone, it would be us, right? He supposedly works for us, so why not? And I think he does have a great many things that he should begin explaining. But I'm unsure whether I like the idea of another country trying to get the President to answer to them first.
Bush's obligation is to us, not the world. If he should be tried, then it is we who should try him, not the world.
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