Is the Axis of Evil Based in Washington, D.C.? 
President Bush claims we are in Iraq to bring democracy and freedom. However, the glaring hypocrisy of this claim is self-evident. With the majority of Iraq's citizens wanting the U.S. occupying troops to leave, Bush chases around the world insisting that the U.S. is winning the war against the so-called enemy and the troops must stay to keep Iraq stable. This would be laughable if it were not so tragic.
Remember Bush's finger pointing propaganda before the Iraq War about the axis of evil? Evil is in the eye of the beholder.
In the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on September 9, in a sidebar adjoining her regular column, D. Parvaz speaks of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the 355 prisoners being held there. Recently there have been 385 flights or disturbances there.
According to Parvaz, "They're tired of being locked up in that God forsaken place without being charged with anything. Being held against your will for years by a government that shrugs off the slightest whiff of accountability can push a person to the point of fighting."
World leaders, world citizens and humanitarians who rightly respect international law could well consider the axis of evil as George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell.
Could many nations of the world feel threatened by the lawlessness of the Iraq War and its toll of death and destruction?
With Iraq War deaths estimated between 600,000 and one million, with over 3,600 U.S. service personnel dead, with over 55,000 combatants and non-combatants injured, and 2 million more forced to flee and 2 another million Iraqis displaced, is it any wonder that Iran wants to make certain that the U.S. does not invade it the way that Iraq was invaded?
Now with George Bush wanting to place rocket power on the borders of European nations, is he trying to start Cold War Two?
The strongest human instinct is survival. Other nations are well aware of the Vietnam-Iraq war syndrome consisting of two horrifying wars that did not need to be fought. The staggering death toll in these two wars has never yet held those responsible accountable.
No amount of flag waving or pompous parades can ever change the reality of needless death and destruction.
Other nations not fooled by media propaganda could conceivably join forces to demand that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell be held accountable for Iraq War deaths as well as the destruction and displacement of Iraq's citizens. Such accountability could best be determined in a lawful manner at the International Court at The Hague.
Each Iraq War defendant would be provided with a trial to determine that individual's exact role in the illegal Iraq War disaster. What could be fairer than that?
KEYWORDS: Barbara Boxer, George Bush, Iraq War, Possibility of War Crimes Trials over Iraq Conflict
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