Nuremberg Prosecutor: Try Bush Alongside Saddam

The Nuremberg Principles and how they should be applied, from a man who knows:

A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.

"Nuremberg declared that aggressive war is the supreme international crime," the 87-year-old Ferencz told OneWorld from his home in New York. He said the United Nations charter, which was written after the carnage of World War II, contains a provision that no nation can use armed force without the permission of the UN Security Council.

Ferencz said that after Nuremberg the international community realized that every war results in violations by both sides, meaning the primary objective should be preventing any war from occurring in the first place.

The report goes on to quote Firencz as being an advocate of the International Criminal Court. That's something I agree with him on too. That Bush signed into U.S. law, without much of a quibble from any Dem leader, a bill making U.S. cooperation with the ICC illegal and including a provision authorizing the president to "use all means necessary and appropriate," to free U.S. personnel detained or imprisoned by the ICC is still one of the greatest travesties of his administration. It clearly said to the world that Bush's America is not a good neighbour or a believer in justice for all. One of the first things a Democrat presidential candidate has on any agenda should be the repeal of this provision and complete ratification of the ICC Treaty - a treaty that had already been signed by Clinton on behalf of America but that George Bush then made America a promise-breaker on.