COULD BUSH BE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES.....C-SPAN

[capi888]

Benjamin Ferencz Chief Prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trial...War Crimes


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Question was ....When are we going to prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield for War Crimes, we need to prosecute these criminals. He said, we have lots of similarities of what is going on in America with Bush that happened in the Hitler Administration.

Answer by Ferencz...
He said that Hitlers killing of over a million of his own people, has a resonance of the current military strategy of the United States. This is a variation of what we had before which is containment. We have a number of international courts created, in the Hague, over the opposition to the US, as well as other international criminal courts, indicating we are moving in the right direction, and hopefully time will come the heads of all States will realize the time has come, that the law has to apply to ALL STATES, that the law applies to EVERYONE, EVERYONE! THEN WE WILL HAVE THE RULE OF LAW GOVERNING, INSTEAD THE RULE OF WAR BEHAVIOR.
YIKES, this is the Prosecutor that prosecuted Hitler....

[capi888]

1. Had to change the title...N/T

[converted_democrat]

2. The guy that prosecuted Hitler said this? n/t

[Jane Austin]

3. I thought Hitler died in his bunker.

How could he have been prosecuted?

[ddeclue]

4. Hitler committed suicide as the Russians were closing in.

This guy didn't try Hitler but he did try a lot of the top Nazis.

The Russians would have given Hitler a firing squad first and the trial second in order to protect his right to remain silent...

[goclark]

5. My prayer and my dream is to be at the Hague

when they march the neocons in...I am serious.

I want to see an INTERNATIONAL trial for them, not just the Democrats.

The world already knows that he is a criminal, the world coarts need to try them.

[capi888]

6. Sorry shouldn't have said

he prosecuted Hitler. Was rushing to get to appointment and didn't explain it correctly. Thanks...

[DemonFighterLives]

7. Interesting Guest

He seems to be against military actions and killing. He sure looked young when he went after the nazis, which he described as a slam dunk case.
One caller tried to deny the holocaust and he said he saw the bodies stacked like cordwood waiting for the furnace.
http://www.benferencz.org/
Postscript to Agora: Future Implications of the Iraq Conflict

The London Times and other media recently disclosed secret documents that contain information that merit a postscript to the excellent 2003 Agora, edited by Lori Fisler Damrosch and Bernard H. Oxman, on "Future Implications of the Iraq Conflict."

It appears that when British Prime Minister Tony Blair met US President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas, in April 2002, they agreed that Britain would join the US in bringing about a "regime change" by removing Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, from office. On July 23, 2002, Blair held a top secret meeting at Downing Street to discuss the subject with his key advisers. The chairman of the joint intelligence committee, Sir John Scarlett, opened the meeting by getting right to the point. The only way to overthrow Saddam was likely to be "by massive military action."

Sir Richard Dearlove, Chief of MI-6, Britain's intelligence agency, then reported on his talks in Washington with his American counterpart, George Tenet, Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency. Dearlove, according to the secret minutes, was convinced that the US had no patience with the United Nations or the Security Council. "Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action justified by the conjunction between terrorism and WMD." There had been little discussion of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction. War was "seen as inevitable." Dearlove warned that the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around the policy.

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