Who would like George Bush tried for War crimes?

[amat]

Yeah I guess the wikipedia article was misleading.

I see where you're going, but when it comes to keeping certain countries from power, I say to contain the psychos. Sadaam, Ahmadinejad, Jong-Il, etc all fucken psychos and I don't trust them to be running country's and I don't mind America doing something about it. Not invading, because that costs us lives but yes that is what I believe. Israel does some shitty things, I can't say I'm completely comfortable with the US supporting them as much as they should but whatever, they do and I don't know enough about that.

[Gandalf]

Israel for me is the big elephant in the room when it comes to US foreign policy. I don't have any particular fondness for the psycho leaders either, but policy should be consistent and there shouldn't be obvious contradictions because that means that the policy is obviously hypocritical. But that's the thing where do you draw the line? Iran potentially wants nuclear weapons, but you can't very well say that they can't have a deterent when Israel is armed up to the eyes with them. To be consistent you have to force Israel to eradicate their stockpiles and say to Iran "see we are doing it the right way". And in turn America should destroy a massive pile of its own weapons and say to the world "we are being straight". But it's never a case of being straight or consistent.

If you are going to contain one psycho then you also have to contain them all. And that brings you to the the very definition of what a "psycho" is. I would very much include George Bush and Tony Blair as among the psycho's. That's where it becomes murky because if you tally up the total dead around the world I am sure Britain and America are responsible for more of it than any other nation. These psycho's are in a whole league of their own. So in that sense other psycho's can very well point their fingers and say "nobody should be picking on us because they are the bigger psycho's!". And in their own way I would have to completely agree with them.

You need to lead by example and Bush never did that. He waded in and became one of the biggest psycho's himself and that's why I think it would be great to make an example of him and start afresh making sure that it never happens again. Unfortunately, it looks as though Obama will be getting another thread on the same topic a few years later.