Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack
Bush and Blair found guilty of war crimes for Iraq attack - Salon.com
A tribunal in Malaysia applies the Nuremberg Principles to brand the two leaders as war criminals
Heres what I find striking about this. Virtually every Serious political and media elite in America, by definition, would scoff at this tribunal; few things are considered more fringe or ludicrous than the notion that George Bush and Tony Blair should be punished as war criminals just because they aggressively attacked another nation and caused the deaths of at least 150,000 innocent people and the displacement of millions more. But the only thing this Malaysian tribunal is doing is applying the clear principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal as enunciated by lead prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson in his Opening and Closing Statements at Nuremberg:
The central crime in this pattern of crimes, the kingpin which holds them all together, is the plot for aggressive wars. The chief reason for international cognizance of these crimes lies in this fact. . . .
What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust. . . . . And let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.
The kingpin crime of the German defendants was not genocide or ethnic cleansing, but rather the plot for aggressive war, and the only way that the Nuremberg Tribunal will serve a useful purpose is if it applies equally in the future to aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment. Who do you think history will (and should) look more favorably upon? Those in this Kuala Lumpur tribunal who objected to the heinous war crime that is the attack on Iraq and attempted to hold the responsible leaders accountable under the Nuremberg principles, or those in America and Britain who mocked those efforts (when they werent ignoring them) and demanded that they and their leaders be fully exempted from the principles they imposed and decreed as universal after World War II?
"A tribunal in Malaysia"