Feb 14 2009
Time for Another War Crimes Tribunal
A USA Today/
Gallup poll tells us that 2/3s of Americans support investigating crimes of the Bush administration. Reporting that 40% of respondents said they want to see prosecutions. It seems rather unlikely that we will see a serious investigation let alone prosecutions. Criminal actions by US Presidents are nothing new and we haven’t seen any of the bastards locked up yet, why should we believe that anything will be different now? In fact we see both the president and his lackey head of CIA running away from the idea of accountability. Leon Panetta said CIA officers would not be prosecuted for harsh interrogations authorized by the Bush White House. Nuremberg, nuremberg (”Befehl ist Befehl”, “order is order”). It would seem Mr. Panetta is under the impression that he is working for the justice department and not the CIA, because, whether or not there are prosecutions is really not his call. But then the Whitehouse tends to speak with one voice even if it’s out of both sides of the mouth. Back in 2000 panel of 16 judges from 11 countries at a people’s tribunal meeting in New York June 10 found President William J. Clinton, Gen. Wesley Clark, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, Prime Minister Jose Maria Azmar, the Governments of the United States and the other NATO member states guilty of 19 separate crimes. I won’t trouble you by listing all 19 charges but some of them might sound familiar as we look at Iraq and
Afghanistan. Inflicting, Inciting and Enhancing Violence Between and Among Muslims and Slavs.
Killing and Injuring a Defenseless Population throughout
Yugoslavia.
Using Depleted Uranium, Cluster Bombs and Other Prohibited Weapons.
Using the Means of Military Force and Economic Coercion in Order to Achieve
U.S. Domination.
Now obviously the tribunal did not have the power to arrest and imprison those they found guilty but they did take a stand on international law. When the American people begin to take a stand that’s when our government will stop this kind of madness. “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress” Frederick Douglass… We can no longer afford to wait for our “leaders”; the American people must take this government back from the war profiteers / criminals who have been running it for years. But if the people are to accomplish this grand task we must first recognize our real enemy, it is not Iraq or Afghanistan it’s the corporate thugs and criminal politicians who have betrayed the public trust and are using our tax dollars to line their pockets and feed the dogs of war.
