Reply #21: They ALL knew in the fall of 2003, and I would venture to say

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they expected to happen "as a consequence of war" -- the war they had yet to declare on Iraq.

That is why Bush refused to sign on to the ICC in July 2002.

U.S. WILL NOT SIGN ON TO INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL COURT, BUSH SAYS
Date: July 2, 2002

President Bush says the United States will not sign on to the International Criminal Court (ICC) because as the nation works to build peace around the world its diplomats and soldiers could be dragged "into this court and that's very troubling."

He spoke July 2 with reporters who accompanied him as he toured a local church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to promote his domestic agenda.

Bush said the United States is working at the United Nations towards ending the stalemate over the ICC that could jeopardize the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Bosnia.

"We'll try to work out the impasse, but the one thing we're not going to do is sign on to this International Criminal Court," Bush said.

"President Clinton signed this treaty, but when he signed it he said it should not be submitted to the Senate," Bush told reporters. "It therefore never has been, and I don't intend to submit it either."

The new International Criminal Court came into force on July 1, 2002.

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