Reply #72: Wesley Clark on ICC: link

[BelgianMadCow]

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I know that the worst-case analysis of this is that American soldiers could be subject to whimsical or politically motivated charges, but the honest truth is, the United States intends to operate under international law. We helped build international law, we need international law. And we've got to find a way to work with this court and bring it around and make whatever modifications need to be made to it.

But I was subjected to a war crimes investigation in my role as NATO commander. It didn't bother me a bit. We had full integration of lawyers in all of our activities. We never did anything that was the remotest bit beyond the shade of the law. We would never want to do that.
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from http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/07/le.00.html

Not exactly a policy paper, and from some time ago, but hey...

ON edit : recently, under heavy pressure from the US (threatening to relocate NATO headquarters), Belgian government has watered down our own (new) law on crimes against humanity - people were filing claims against Bush & co...so now we have a law that will only accept claims from directly impacted Belgains if there is no just trial possible in the country of origin of the defendant. In the case of the US, since you have a democracy and separation of powers etc, the claim will be transmitted to US justice dept ... *sigh*

Decision taken in the face of damaging economic relations...like letting trains & ships with war material pass through our ports. *bigger sigh*