Should Bush & Blair be tried for war crimes?
By ManInThePub
@ManInThePub (24)
2 responses
@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
15 Apr 07
They haven't committed any war crimes! Not once did they order theexecution of a person or group of people. They simply said enough is enough andstepped in where the UN feared to tread. Saddam and the sunnis are no longer murdering their fellow countrymen with impunity. They did theright thing. Too bad it took 20 years for Bush to fix theAmerican errors made with Saddam. As for Annan and the UN, they should focus on feeding starving kids instead of voting to censure someone with the balls to step up and do something about genocide when they just turn the other way.
@ManInThePub (24)
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16 Apr 07
Do a web search on "Hans von Sponeck" "The Inside Story of U.S. sanctions on Iraq".
I think you'll find a lot of the information new to you and contrary to what you have been told.
The deaths of .5 million Iraqi babies is a direct consequence of the economic siege and callous indifference imposed on Iraq chiefly by the US.
Medicines were blocked or made available in insufficient amounts, not traded for "weapons" & "junk". But even if they had been that doesn't make it morally right for the West to effectively uphold the means to mass murder.
Read von Sponeck's excellent book on his experience as the head of the Food for Oil programme and you'll find that the Party Line you have been sold is a complete lie.
If the US had any genuine empathy for the plight of the Iraqis it wouldn't have backed Saddam all the way up until Kuwait to start with. It wouldn't have shot the disgruntled retreating troops in back on the Basra road (the best chance for regime change) and they wouldn't have let Saddam fly helicopter gunships in the so-called "no fly zone" to massacre the people who responded to Bush Senior's call to "rise up" against Saddam. Donald Rumsfeld wouldn't have been the broker in selling chemical weapons to Saddam, and providing him with satellite photographs of Iranian emplacements to help Saddam commit war crimes.
Contrary to what you may believe to be morally sound, under the Geneva convention an occupational force has a duty of care to the civilians of the occupied country.
Do SOME reading please!
@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
15 Apr 07
They haven't committed any war crimes! Not once did they order the execution of a person or group of people. They simply said enough is enough and stepped in where the UN feared to tread. Saddam and the sunnis are no longer murdering their fellow countrymen with impunity. They did the right thing. Too bad it took 20 years for Bush to fix the American errors made with Saddam. As for Annan and the UN, they should focus on feeding starving kids instead of voting to censure someone with the balls to step up and do something about genocide when they just turn the other way.
