Political Cortex: Only the International Court can Determine if George Bush is a War Criminal

Only the International Court can Determine if George Bush is a War Criminal

By Bob Kendall
06/07/2008 07:53:19 PM EST

Was George Bush's Iraq War more devastating than China's 7.0 earthquake with 87,000 killed or injured?

Was George Bush's Iraq War more devastating than Myanmar's (Burma's) cyclone that killed 140,000?

It has been estimated that some 250,000 people have been dislocated in China. The number of displaced persons in Myanmar is unknown.

The Iraq War Iraqi death estimates range between 600,000 to over 1.2 million lives lost.

The number of Iraqis having fled for their lives to Iran, Syria and Jordan is estimated at some 2.7 million.

The number of U.S. service personnel dead from the Iraq War is 4,600 and climbing with the wounded over 55,000.

The Chinese parents of the 9,000 children killed in earthquake-prone areas containing inadequate construction are demanding an investigation immediately for those responsible for this tragedy. They also want them brought to justice and punished for what they feel were unneeded deaths.

In Myanmar (Burma) the leaders who are busily building luxury dwellings for themselves have made it very difficult for relief agencies to deliver food to the nearly starved citizens of this cyclone devastated country.

The June 6 Seattle Times presented the New York Times story about Bush's rush into the Iraq War with this headline:

BUSH FAULTED ON CASE FOR IRAQ WAR

Mark Marzetti and Scott Shane wrote the following:

"A long-delayed Senate report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies about Iraq's weapons programs and Saddam Hussein's links to al-Qaida."

Couldn't fairly assessing the conflicting intelligence information represent the honest approach?

Ignoring spy agency disagreements and hastily painting a false picture of Iraq represented Bush's slanted Iraq War policy.

This lengthy investigation concludes that George Bush and other officials were "guilty of the use, abuse, and faulty assessment of intelligence leading up to the Iraq War."

Certainly this 5-year study could be effectively used for an immediate impeachment investigation.

This should be faithfully followed up by a trial at the International Court of Justice at The Hague to determine if George Bush, Dick Cheney and other officials must at long last be held totally accountable for the unneeded Iraq War debacle.