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It should be really easy to find some examples of people attempting to put him on trial, given such a slam dunk case.
by jl6 5y ago
It should be really easy to find some examples of people attempting to put him on trial, given such a slam dunk case.
- sofixa 5y agoPlease name one american war criminal higher than a soldier killing innocents in the dozens ( like someone who ordered a war or a strike or torture or kidnapping or whatever) who was actually tried and served time for his crimes. That just doesn't happen with US war criminals, so the question is moot.
- jl6 5y agoI didn't ask for a successful prosecution, I just asked for examples of people attempting to put him on trial. Here are 4 arguments, drawn from 10 seconds of Googling, put forward for trying Bush and other members of his administration. The usual names are here - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet: https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/criminal-complaint-in-geneva-against-george-w-bush-what-has-trial-done/ https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/criminal-complain... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/08/usa.warcrimes https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/08/usa.wa... https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-play-putting-george-w-bush-on-trial-for-war-crimes https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-play-putting-george-w-bush... https://www.salon.com/2014/12/20/put_the_evil_bastards_on_trial_the_case_for_trying_bush_cheney_and_more_for_war_crimes/ https://www.salon.com/2014/12/20/put_the_evil_bastards_on_tr... And here's a "tribunal" in Malaysia who actually did convict Bush and Blair in absentia: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/28/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-bush-and-blair-guilty https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2011/11/28/kuala-lumpur-t... Notably absent from all these perp lists? Colin Powell.