Should Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes?

[Gandalf]

Iraq inquiry told U.S. mentioned link to Saddam Hussein within hours of 9/11 attacks | Mail Online

Even if this inquiry doesn't lead to anything more, it has at least been quite damning. We don't have access to polls showing public sentiment right now, but at each of the newspapers there are scores and scores of comments from people and 95% of them are angry and upset at what has taken place. Some seem to be arguing that war crimes charges should go ahead out there too.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

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That means absolutely nothing in terms of their being classified as war criminals. That same logic could be applied to literally hundreds of wars in which no one is termed a war criminal.

By that logic Nixon and LBJ and Kennedy should all be posthumously tried for Vietnam.[/quote]

maybe they should.

What was the pretext for war? Defence? Bollocks was it.

The basis for invasion was a pack of lies. They've caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Sounds like a criminal act to me.

Aside from the Second World War, which is debatable, name some wars with justifiable or truthful pretexts. There are almost none and it means nothing in terms of defining someone as a war criminal, unless you want to define almost everyone who makes war in that fashion.

Like I said, I'm fundamentally opposed to the likes of Bush and Blair and everything they represent, but they've done nothing that hundreds of others before them have done. The only reason people are whining about it is because it has turned into a protracted struggle. My sympathies lie with those Iraqi's who want nothing but peace and who are dying at alarming rates, if I was one of them I would gladly take up arms against imperialistic aggression, but saying the leaders who started the war should be tried as war criminals, thereby implying they have done something more egregious than those who came before them is ridiculous. They are no more or less guilty that any who came before them.

NO! People round the world were saying it was wrong / unjust / we know we're being lied to before the war. And some people have never stopped saying it.

That's a bit like arguing for slavery. Nothing wrong with it, we did it before. The difference now is in the 24/7 media culture we have now. We have much greater access to information and people can research for themselves. Mass media still has a large role in play in public (dis)information but there is a more gloves off attitude out there.

[Scrap]

Winners write History

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Winners write History

true dat.

And everything to do with prevailing episteme.

[Memphis]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

Really?

I was actually talking to the intellectuals on the thread i.e. Miles, but please feel free to contribute with the golden shower gag as you see fit.

[BIG H]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

Bahahahahahahahahaha

[Howlin Mad Missy]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Memphis is sulking because he's not involved in my depraved love life.

[BIG H]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Memphis is sulking because he's not involved in my depraved love life.

I'm loving your transformation into Forum Slut

[Memphis]

e pist eme?

Missy we've lost interest in your depraved love life.

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Memphis is sulking because he's not involved in my depraved love life.

Fucking right, we're finished!

Anyway how about those war crimes?

[Gandalf]

This is turning into a bit of a funny thread!

[Nameless]

They should definitely!

1) Bush and his teams did falsify and wrote a false report about uranium transaction between Niger and Iraq, they got debunked:

CNN.com - Diplomat: U.S. knew uranium report was false - Jul. 7, 2003

2) Joseph Wilson went over there, he claimed it was false, he got pressured to change his speech, he didn't do, fucker lewis Libby/Rove did blast the cover up of Valerie Plarme, his wife to punish him, destroying so her CIA career and putting, for evident reasons, their life in danger.

Valerie Plame, the Spy Who Got Shoved Out Into the Cold - washingtonpost.com

3) Paul WOlfowitz ADMITTED by himself they all knew the nukes were not existent but used that excuse so everybody would use it as common excuse to attack Illegitimately Iraq: Wolfowitz Admits Iraq War Planned Two Days After 9-11

4) The embargo killed many millions of peoples in Iraq and they did jack and shit about it: Embargo brings death to 500,000 children in Iraq. - National Catholic Reporter | Encyclopedia.com

5) THey filled juicy contracts to Halliburton without calling for any offer and they did let them overcharge: Asia Times - Asia's most trusted news source for the Middle East (Cheeney used to be chairman over there and has still loads of shares into the company)

6) Black fuckin' Water went on a killing rampage, not respecting the rules and corrupted major officials and never got sentenced because they are budy budy with Bush and CIE http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/wo...lackwater.html

IT's nothing against Republicans, it's all about Bush being sentenced for what he did allow and ordered, same for most of his staff chief department persons.

Bump. They attacked a country to serve their only interests without any evaluation of other peoples life, especially innocent civilians. That can't get any worst than that, destroying the economy of a whole country, turning it into a maddening chaos, using lies to do so to serve one own's economic interests.

[Memphis]

You say that like its a bad thing?

[Nameless]

You say that like its a bad thing?

Except if you can convince me about the opposite. I give you a chance because I am seriously that incredible.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

Bahahahahahahahahaha

Memphis is sulking because he's not involved in my depraved love life.

Fucking right, we're finished!

Anyway how about those war crimes?

It's not you it's me.

You're no longer man enough for me.

I've traded you in for three younger models.

Blair and Bush should hang.