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Which brings to mind the finding that Bush and Blair were ruled war criminals recently. If you recall, Bush, Blair and the 'gang' were all accused and tried in Kuala Lumpur. Similarly, warrants have been issued in Europe, prompting Bush to cancel travel to Switzerland, while Rumsfeld is not going to other European nations for the same reasons. We now know that the primary evidence America and Britain used to justify preemptive war – a war that has killed over 150,000 innocents, displaced a million more and forever contaminated the country with birth-defect-causing depleted uranium – was based on fabricated information.[. . . ]Documentary evidence supports the conclusion that Bush and Blair knew at the time of Powell’s speech that claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were fabricated.[. . .] This is where most analysis of the Iraq War ends: with a “stuff happens” shrug of the shoulders or, at best, a few words of empty condolence for those who have died because of this war based on lies. But now a global movement is afoot to go further: to judge Bush and Blair by the same regime of international law that they used to justify their preemptive war. In November of 2011 and May of 2012, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, an tribunal founded by Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, tried George Bush, Tony Blair, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and [. . .] Gonzales, Addington, Haynes, Bybee and John Yoo in absentia. Bush and Blair were accused of violating the Nuremberg Principles by committing “crimes against peace” – waging a war in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law. SourceBush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the others were separately accused of and tried for committing war crimes including torture, and other crimes in violation of the International Laws of War. Please do a little snooping around the various search engines to find articles on this. There is much information regarding the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes hearings. It will be up to the people in many nations to pressure various governments and institutions such as the UN, The Hague, and others to take action. Obviously the US isn't interested, and the UK is showing less enthusiasm than the US demonstrates. I'm not advocating for unwarranted punishment, but for proceedings to be instituted, and upon obtaining information that warrants a trial, for such trial to occur. It was important in the past for such trials to take place, when the US was more or less on the side of the angels. Now that the position of the US has changed, we still need to go through with this, or acts done in our name will haunt our children, their children, and so on for generations to come.
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