http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/06/sitroom.02.htmlRAMSEY CLARK, FMR. U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: First, you've got to tell me whether you're going to have a legal court. He should not be on trial in an illegal court. He should not be on trial in a court that's not absolutely independent, where the judges are impartial and where the procedure is fair and due process is accorded. And under those circumstances, I think a trial would be appropriate. It could be appropriate for other national leaders. And I personally believe that the attack on Iraq -- I personally believe the attack on Iraq was a war of aggression. I don't think there's any real doubt about it. And a war of aggression was found by the Nuremberg judgment to be supreme international crime. It's clearly a violation of Article 2.4 of the U.N. Charter, trying to keep peace. You can't threaten or assault the territory or integrity of another country, or invade it. And here we are, and we're paying a heavy price for it. And the Iraqis are paying about 100 times greater price than we're paying in life, the lives of human beings, men, women and children, in their case.
BLITZER: Last year you issued an indictment -- you wrote an indictment calling on a trial for President Bush for war crimes.
Do you believe President Bush should be charged with war crimes and should be on trial?CLARK: Well,
I think President Bush should face impeachment proceedings, because there's absolutely no doubt that a war of aggression is a high crime and misdemeanor, aside from the fact whether he really believed that there were weapons of mass destruction, he really believed that Iraq was a threat. And I don't see how any informed person could ever believe that Iraq -- Iraq was a threat. After 10 years of sanctions that killed 1.5 million of their people, after the Gulf War, and we claimed to have annihilated 80 percent of their military materiel and the inspection -- U.N. inspection claimed to get 90 percent of the rest, leaves you 2 percent of what they had in the beginning. The country was brought to its knees. It was a helpless country when we struck it with Shock and Awe. And Shock and Awe is a synonym for terrorism.
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