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              Waarom wij Bush en Zijn Beleid voor de Misdaden van de Oorlog moeten vervolgen
Vrijdag, 19 December, 2008
Door Mike Ferner Tijdens de stormloop om de Rechtbanken van Nuremberg van start te gaan, wilde de Sovjetdelegatie de rechtbank? s historische besluiten om legitimiteit slechts voor Nazis te hebben. De V.S. De Rechtvaardigheid van het opperste Hof, Robert dat Jackson, als belangrijkste eiser voor de Bondgenoten, sterk-bewapend de Sovjets tot het allereerste begin van de rechtbank dient alvorens hun mening te veranderen. In zijn openingsverklaring zeer met opzet bepaald Jackson? Me maken duidelijk die terwijl deze wet eerst tegen Duitse aanvallers wordt toegepast, de wet omvat, en als het een nuttig doel moet dienen laat moet het agressie door een andere naties, met inbegrip van veroordelen die die hier nu in oordeel. zitten? Kunnen er een betere reden voor het vervolgen George Bush en zijn beleid voor oorlogsmisdaden dan die woorden van de belangrijkste eiser van Nazis, de V.S. zijn. De Rechtvaardigheid van het opperste Hof, met de volledige steun van de V.S. overheid? Robert Jackson? s woorden en de waarden deze natie om zich eist te bevinden voor vormt voldoende morele basis om Bush en Cheney, hun ondergeschikt te zetten wie hun beleid en vervormde wettelijke meningen uitvoerde dat hen allen in het dok rechtvaardigden. Als die geen voldoende redenen zijn, daar is een lange lijst van bindende wet en verdragen? geschreven in zwart-wit in het verrassend duidelijke Engels. Ingebeeld Bush, en zijn procureurs adviseerden, dat hij deze wetten met kon opzij eenvoudig golven? zij trekken aan? t is. van toepassing? Veronderstel hoe een rechter zelfs een eenvoudige gedaagde zou behandelen van het verkeershof die brazenly verklaarde de wet slechts een quaint begrip, enkel was? woorden op papier?? De massa's van mensen en een embarrassingly klein aantal van hun verkozen vertegenwoordigers in dit land lazen de wet voor zich en eisten anders, slechts om door de Beschermers van Werkelijkheid in de collectieve nieuwsmedia worden tot zwijgen gebracht. Maar het? s allen daar, is waar het 220 jaar, de Grondwet geweest? s? suprematie clausule? Artikel II, sectie 4, en in Het Akte van de Misdaden van de oorlog van 1996 (18USC? 2441). Zij verstrekken het gezag om extra verdragen juridisch bindend te maken? geen kwestie hoeveel vroegere advocaten David Addington en John Yoo kan bezwaar hebben van het Witte Huis. Die extra verdragen omvatten onder anderen, De Overeenkomsten van Genève, de uitspraken van Nuremberg, Wetten en Douane van Oorlog op Land en Resolutie 3314 van de Algemene Vergadering van de V.N. . To give just a snapshot of how serious these laws are, consider this portion of 18 USC 2441 which defines a war crime as ?a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party?? The guilty can be ?fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.? Here, Justice Jackson answers another question about war crimes ? who bears the greater responsibility: those who committed barbaric acts in the field or those who created the conditions for barbarism?
And yet it is not just because Bush violated the Constitution and federal law that he and his lieutenants must be prosecuted. At Nuremberg, the foremost crime identified was starting a ?war of aggression,? later codified by U.N. Resolution 3314, Art. 5, as ?a crime against international peace.? Launching a war of aggression, as Hitler did against Poland, is considered so monstrous that the nation responsible can then be charged with ?war crimes? and ?crimes against humanity,? spelled out in detail in the Geneva Conventions. As Tom Paine said long before the U.N. formalized the definition of aggression, ?He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of Hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. A small sampling of the contagion of Hell let loose by Bush includes illegally invading a sovereign state, using banned weapons such as white phosphorous and napalm, bombing hospitals and civilian infrastructure, withholding aid and medical supplies, terrorizing and knowingly killing civilians, torturing prisoners, killing a million people and displacing four million more in Iraq alone. Following World War II, humanity resolved that wars do more than spark a series of loathsome, individual crimes. Leaders responsible for a war actually commit crimes against the entirety of humanity. They inflict harm on every human being, something that must be put right before humanity can be restored. There is a final reason why we must prosecute Bush and Co. It is not what some argue, although they point to a serious danger: that Bush trashed the law and usurped powers, encouraging future presidents to expand where he left off. Such reasons are about George Bush and those who hold the office after him, but in the final analysis this is about us. We are complicit in the horrors of this administration. We can claim neither ignorance nor innocence. We are complicit by the very fact that we are citizens of the United States, more so because we paid for the war, and even more so for this reason. Listen to a village sheik I met in Iraq describe it better than I ever could. I met this man in a small farming village one afternoon in early 2004. He described how he and a dozen others were swept up in a raid by the U.S. Army and detained on a bare patch of ground surrounded by concertina wire. They had no shelter and but six blankets. They dug a hole with their hands for a toilet. They had to beg for water until one time it rained for three days straight and they remained on that open ground. He somehow found the graciousness to say he understood there was a difference between the American people and our government. Then through his tears he added, ?But you say you live in a democracy. How can this be happening to us?? Do we? Whether or not we bring our own government officials to justice for their crimes will determine the answer. Have Your Say: Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration for War Crimes Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. 2 Responses to “Why We Must Prosecute Bush and His Administration for War Crimes”
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Oh shut up you fucken retard…. clearly you don’t know your history to compare the German invasion to the Iraqi war. Im not a fan of Bush but to say he should be prosecuted for war crimes is fucken STUPID…