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Re: Bush Administration Convicted
Posted by **Winston OBoogie** on Jul 8, 2013 at 2:22:11 PM:
In Reply to: Bush Administration Convicted posted by **Hippie J** on Jul 8, 2013 at 5:32:25 AM:
*of War Crimes
*Former U.S. President George W. Bush recently dedicated his Presidential Library in Dallas. The ceremony included speeches by President Obama, ex-President Bush, and every other living ex-president. But none of the speeches so much as mentioned to Iraq war -- the undertaking that dominated George W. Bush's presidency, and will define his historic legacy.
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*This omission might be due, at least in part, to the fact that Mr. Bush is now a convicted war criminal who dares not travel abroad out of fear of being arrested.
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*In February 2011, Bush was forced to cancel a scheduled appearance in Geneva, Switzerland after human rights groups filed a criminal complaint charging him with violating international treaties against torture.
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*His trouble increased dramatically a year ago when Bush -- along with former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and several other top Bush administration officials -- were convicted of war crimes in absentia by a special war crimes tribunal in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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*The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission was convened and conducted according to internationally recognized procedures and rules of evidence, and the week-long hearing ended with the five-member panel unanimously delivering guilty verdicts.
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*What is the significance of that tribunal? Is its verdict legally binding? Are there troublesome aspects to the idea that a foreign tribunal can sit in judgment of a U.S. President -- whatever we may think of his actions? We will discuss these vitally important questions with Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He served as a prosecutor at the tribunal.
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Here we go again...those following the pipe dream.
Here's what will most likely happen..
The Kuala Lumpur verdict will be deemed as non-binding and the idea that a foreign tribunal sitting in judgement of a US President is unheard of and most likely will be seen as just
posturing with no legal ramifications being actually sought or carried out. It will be dismissed as nothing more than "just for show."
So in other words, it's never going to actually do anything to Bush other than create a paper record.
It is highly unlikely that anything will come of it wrt Bush since everything he did was fundamentally and legally within the guidelines of his Presidential powers.
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