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Mike Gravel: Take Bush to The Hague!

presstv.ir — Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached.

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  • vexingmodstwo, on 07/27/2008, -9/+2Moonbat.
  • ssdded, on 07/27/2008, -8/+1Someone should point out to Gravel that the US Senate never ratified the treaty that established the ICC.

    Now, of course, if Bush is abducted from a country that did ratify the treaty after he's out of the Oval Office, I'm not going to cry about it too much, even though I dislike the idea of an international entity such as the ICC.
  • jei731, on 07/27/2008, -6/+8If 1.2 million americans had been killed by an illegal invader who launced a war of aggression, most americans would be calling for the perpetrator to be brought to justice. It is deeply disturbing how many americans today are incapable of empathy towards other people and dismiss the cruelty and torture that have been brought upon other people. It is these people, while still good men, who are failing to act and to stop the evil. Evil begets evil, and the millions of dead and tens of millions of wounder in Iraq and Afghanistan will undoubtedly carry the destruction that USA has brought them for the rest of their lives, just as US leaders carry their personal history.
    http://digg.com/educational/Adolf_Hitler_how_can_a ...

    There is much to be done to pay for the blood of millions of innocent people that has been shed and a big part of that is introspection by americans why and how this was allowed to happen and why all the good people were cowed into silence and did nothing. And why, even today, most people are silent instead of calling for the evil to be brought to light and for justice to be done. Every time I see an american spit on the good will of others in trying to bring justice, I feel sad, for I see one more sick psychopath that is enabling the cruelty to continue and the "evil" to continue their Satanic work.

    There is enough evidence to sentence the Bush government many times over and I present some of it here:
    U.S. Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq

    The American Civil Liberties Union today made public an analysis of new and previously released autopsy and death reports of detainees held in U.S. facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom died while being interrogated. The documents show that detainees were hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, The American Civil Liberties Union today made public an analysis of new and previously released autopsy and death reports of detainees held in U.S. facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of whom died while being interrogated. The documents show that detainees were hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, subjected to sleep deprivation and to hot and cold environmental conditions.

    "These documents present irrefutable evidence that U.S. operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogations," said Amrit Singh, an attorney with the ACLU. "The public has a right to know who authorized the use of torture techniques and why these deaths have been covered up."

    http://www.aclu.org/intlhumanrights/gen/21236prs20 ...
    These are punishable by the death penalty under US law:
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vie ...
    "The War Crimes Act of 1996, a federal statute set forth at 18 U.S.C. ยง 2441, makes it a federal crime for any U.S. national, whether military or civilian, to violate the Geneva Convention by engaging in murder, torture, or inhuman treatment.

    "The penalty may be life imprisonment or -- if a single prisoner dies due to torture -- death."

    The War Crimes Act: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/ts_search.pl ...

    Deaths due to torture in US prisons, death certificates:
    http://action.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/102405 ...
    http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/torturefoia.h ...
    Another crime carrying also the death penalty would be the premeditated war of aggression that Bush and Tony Blair are guilty of. As per principles well established in international courts of law and Nuremberg trials:

    "To initiate a war of aggression, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

    In stating this guiding principle of international law, the judges specifically rejected German arguments of the "necessity" for pre-emptive attacks against other countries.

    Evidence:
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article87 ...
    The secret Downing Street memo
    http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article91 ...
    Leaked Cabinet Office paper: Conditions for military action
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article53 ...
    Ministers were told of need for Gulf war 'excuse'

    Two recent, independent studies made by UK, establish the current most scientific and historically accurate measures of the casualties for Iraq war and put it at 1.2 million victims now:

    http://uruknet.info/?p=m40749&s1=h1
    http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html ...

    It is apparent that psychopathic maniacs like to lead people to war, but it is not apparent why good and decent people allow themselves be led by psychopaths and become mass murdering maniacs in their wake. This article brings thoughts to mind concerning the many Neocons who so often appear unfeeling and cold people, totally devoid and incapable of empathy towards others:
    http://www.thisisawar.com/AbuseNature.htm
    People like these, willing to excuse and condone mass murders of others are sick and in need of psychiatric treatment and should not be allowed in key positions where they can exercise their delusions.
    • chicofaraby, on 07/27/2008, -2/+1I agree with you but I have to bury your wall of text in order to be able to use this board.

      Shorter is better. Welcome to Digg.
    • guestaccount, on 07/27/2008, -1/+1That guys an idiot, keep posting!
  • chicofaraby, on 07/27/2008, -1/+5I agree with Gravel on this one. Impeachment is merely political. Particularly since the Republicans used it to try to overturn an election by "getting" Clinton over a blow-job instead of something that actually warranted impeachment like his many unwarranted attacks on other countries. That ruined impeachment as a tool to clean up government, turning it into a political "gotcha."

    However, indictments still matter. There is no shortage of charges that could be used in an indictment of George Bush et al. Starting an illegal war of aggression, fraud, domestic spying, exposing a CIA agent, criminal negligence and of course torture and murder. The Bush Cabal deserve their day in court and they should have a chance to defend themselves. But the world needs to see that the USA can clean our own mess.
  • Evilena, on 07/27/2008, -0/+3Good. The Hague can convict him take him to the Saudi desert and throw him in the Sarlacc Pit.
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