ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team

[Bluebear]

"We're still evaluating how we're going to approach the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth. And obviously we're going to be looking at past practices and I don't believe that anybody is above the law. On the other hand I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards." - President Obama

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Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq.

Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil servant, the Nobel-winning Egyptian accuses U.S. leaders of "grotesque distortion" in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, when then-President George W. Bush and his lieutenants claimed Iraq possessed doomsday weapons despite contrary evidence collected by ElBaradei's and other arms inspectors inside the country.

He tells of an October 2002 meeting he and Blix had with Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others, at which the Americans sought to convert the U.N. mission into a "cover for what would be, in essence, a United States-directed inspection process." The U.N. officials resisted, and their teams went on to conduct some 700 inspections of scores of potential weapons sites in Iraq, finding no evidence to support the U.S. claims of weapons of mass destruction...

"I was aghast at what I was witnessing," ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls "aggression where there was no imminent threat," a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed.

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/news/35707/elbaradei-suggests-war-crimes-probe-of-bush-team

[Cleita]

1. Send the whole lot to the Hague to be tried for war crimes.

Then lock them up and throw away the key.

[Old and In the Way]

2. World history will not be kind to the Bush administration.

As we descend into a 2nd world nation, other nations will be bolder in their policies/attitude against this country's early 21st century naked resource grab in the ME.

[tavalon]

7. World history will not be kind to America overall

I've been reading Zinn's History of the American People recently. It's nothing like I was taught in school. The victors write the history and we will not be the victors.

[Kurovski]

3. K&R. (nt)

[malaise]

4. + 1,000 n/t

[tavalon]

5. I can support this

[Permanut]

6. Maybe we should do this with others as well...

For example, Ted Bundy was prosecuted for crimes that were in the past; looking backward, so to speak. Other examples would be easy to find.

(on edit) that is to say, we shouldn't prosecute anybody for anything that happened in the past.


:sarcasm:

[slipslidingaway]

8. knr n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

9. Works for me

[upi402]

10. OBVIOUSLY THE RULE OF LAW IS GONE

sry caps, just frustrated.