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http://news.yahoo.com/tutu-bush-blair-face-trial-hague-094855285.html
Tutu, the retired Anglican Church's archbishop of South Africa, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Observer newspaper that the ex-leaders of Britain and the United States should be made to "answer for their actions."
The Iraq war "has destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history," wrote Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984.
"Those responsible for this suffering and loss of life should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for their actions in the Hague," he added.
The Hague, Netherlands, based court is the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal and has been in operation for 10 years. So far it has launched prosecutions only in Africa, including in Sudan, Congo, Libya and Ivory Coast.
Tutu has long been a staunch critic of the Iraq war, while others opposed to the conflict — including playwright Harold Pinter — have previously called for Bush and Blair to face prosecution at the Hague.
"The then-leaders of the U.S. and U.K. fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand — with the specter of Syria and Iran before us," said Tutu, who last week withdrew from a conference in South Africa due to Blair's presence at the event."
I agree wholeheartedly. These two men should not be walking free today.
http://news.yahoo.com/tutu-bush-blair-face-trial-hague-094855285.html
Tutu, the retired Anglican Church's archbishop of South Africa, wrote in an op-ed piece for The Observer newspaper that the ex-leaders of Britain and the United States should be made to "answer for their actions."
The Iraq war "has destabilized and polarized the world to a greater extent than any other conflict in history," wrote Tutu, who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1984.
"Those responsible for this suffering and loss of life should be treading the same path as some of their African and Asian peers who have been made to answer for their actions in the Hague," he added.
The Hague, Netherlands, based court is the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal and has been in operation for 10 years. So far it has launched prosecutions only in Africa, including in Sudan, Congo, Libya and Ivory Coast.
Tutu has long been a staunch critic of the Iraq war, while others opposed to the conflict — including playwright Harold Pinter — have previously called for Bush and Blair to face prosecution at the Hague.
"The then-leaders of the U.S. and U.K. fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now stand — with the specter of Syria and Iran before us," said Tutu, who last week withdrew from a conference in South Africa due to Blair's presence at the event."
I agree wholeheartedly. These two men should not be walking free today.
http://news.yahoo.com/tutu-bush-blair-face-trial-hague-094855285.html
I agree wholeheartedly. These two men should not be walking free today.
I don't care what your politics are we cannot have our leaders being hauled in front of The Hague.
BKF - read this and circle back -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
As an aside, that's what a typical bipartisan vote looks like.
It was a bipartisan vote because Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Tenet, etc,, kept ALL of the intel that contradicted what W wanted to say out of the finding that was presented to Congress.
They voted on the data the they had presented to them and not all of available intel.
This has been proven to be a fact.
Allowing that independent Senators (some with higher aspirations and all able to call upon any available intel) were somehow hoodwinked by the hated opposition during a potentially career-defining vote, I’m still not sold that the United States should subjugate its sovereignty to the World Court.
Your first sentence is not true. If the contradictory intel was taken out before it was printed, they wouldn't know it existed.
Right-wing conspiracy? Jesus. My point is some Senators voted yes, some voted no. To circle back years later and spin what turned out to be an unpopular vote as something they were blindly led into (unlike their ‘nay’ peers) is disingenuous at best.
You also need to get over the GOP, knee jerk concept that disagreeing with someone equals "hate".
What?
Do you think Milosovic or the guy from Cote D'Ivore or Idi Amin should be able to be tried by the World Court?
They clearly broke down prior to the Iraq War. There are hundreds of articles from people who created the original finding who said all of their negative materials were "lost" before they were shown outside of their office.
This is a matter of historical fact.
It's just like the Germans, French, Brits and Israelis ALL told Tenet and the CIA that Curveball was a liar who had NO valuable intel. They had each disproven all of his stories. Yet, Tenet, Rumsfeld, Cheney and others hid this from Powell before his UN presentation.
There is a long list of proven lies and withheld information leading up to the Iraq War. You can support Bush, but you can't deny this happened.
Are you too goddamned stupid to understand how that came to be? I guess you are, so I will spell it out for you:
And if you can't understand this, you should take your Wake Forest diploma and wipe your ass with it, because that's about all it's good for.