Reply #12: War crimes trials are necessary [View All]

[Jack Rabbit]

Bush may not recognize the ICC, but the point would be moot if he and his fellow thugs are tried for war crimes in US courts.

Bush decided to go to war and his people cherry picked the intelligence data to sell it as a product. Remember, that's what Andy Card called it. No one cared whether the reasons publicly given to justify the war were factual. In fact, most of them were not. As long as no one cared whether the data itself could be verified, why should anyone be concerned about the authenticity of the exhibits to support it? They didn't care whether the Niger document was a fake.

If going to war and presenting the American people and the UN Security Council fabricated evidence to justify it isn't a crime against the peace, what is?

Impeachment doesn't go far enough. Neither does simply defeating him in the next election. These people must be sent to prison. As a nation, we must reassure the world that this will not happen again. It is absolutely necessary that the junta's leaders be tried for war crimes.